rubik wrote:
You guys have some seriously strange notions of "not awesome" and the like. 4300+ kJ on one day of a 3 week tour, during the course of a 5 hour, 4.6 w/kg onslaught.
That's an insane workload. Utterly insane. No one here could even remotely come close to something like that on the best day of their life.
I feel that should be brazenly obvious, yet two different posters...
You're missing part of the reading. I just said that the kilojoules and average power on their own read in isolation don't look crazy. Once you take the average power and his weight it starts looking more impressive, but many guys on here will easily hold the same watts per kilo in a flattish half IM. Then you look at the NP/kilo for the whole day and then suddenly it starts looking insanely impressive. Then you look at some of the NP/kilo for select periods and its insane. Finally you look at the day before and the 8 days before and it is just out of this world. There are essentially only 5 guys in the world who were able to do that...Uran, Aru, Froome, Fuglsang, Bardet.
You're just not reading the entire context of what myself and others posted and jumping to conclusions and then talking down like a smart alec with the "..." closing. I think a few of us clearly said that the AP alone does not jump out as crazy insane until you go further and look at the other stuff and context.