Well, not seeing too much discussions about Bart, so leaving a thread.
Probably not much Belgian here, so a french will do it :-)
Great perf for Bart.
Silver medal, with a sub 8 time.
Make sense for me. Why ?
Recently i found (do not remember where, maybe on this forum) a picture of a board showing best VO2 Max performances measured in a pro lab (I think in the Nederland).
Bart was on the board (Belgium next to Nederland), with a result of 6,75 w/kg. Don't know exact VO2 Max procedure used by this lab (initial watts, watt increment value, delay between increments, ...). In France I know there is at least 10 different methods used, depending the lab (only talking about officially certified labs), each method giving slightly different results.
What is relatively independent from method variation is comparaison to others.
Bart was just next Steven Kruijswijk (not a typo) 6,83 w/kg. This guy was winning Giro last year (or year before ?), just stopped 1 or 2 day before the end by a massive crash.
And also just below Rohan Dennis 7, 04 w/kg. The guy was Hour Record holder, World Champion in Team Pursuit, one of the best performer in individual pursuit (pushing Bobridge to its world record), and is current TT world Champ. And probably capable of winning grand tours.
I was wandering why, with such physical capabilities, Bart results were not that visible at world level.
Now it is done !
In a typical ST note, i would say he can probably improve its bike position for further aero gains :-)
Probably not much Belgian here, so a french will do it :-)
Great perf for Bart.
Silver medal, with a sub 8 time.
Make sense for me. Why ?
Recently i found (do not remember where, maybe on this forum) a picture of a board showing best VO2 Max performances measured in a pro lab (I think in the Nederland).
Bart was on the board (Belgium next to Nederland), with a result of 6,75 w/kg. Don't know exact VO2 Max procedure used by this lab (initial watts, watt increment value, delay between increments, ...). In France I know there is at least 10 different methods used, depending the lab (only talking about officially certified labs), each method giving slightly different results.
What is relatively independent from method variation is comparaison to others.
Bart was just next Steven Kruijswijk (not a typo) 6,83 w/kg. This guy was winning Giro last year (or year before ?), just stopped 1 or 2 day before the end by a massive crash.
And also just below Rohan Dennis 7, 04 w/kg. The guy was Hour Record holder, World Champion in Team Pursuit, one of the best performer in individual pursuit (pushing Bobridge to its world record), and is current TT world Champ. And probably capable of winning grand tours.
I was wandering why, with such physical capabilities, Bart results were not that visible at world level.
Now it is done !
In a typical ST note, i would say he can probably improve its bike position for further aero gains :-)