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Hoping Esteban Chaves has a good Vuelta. Not expecting much doesn’t seem like he has much of a team around him, but I’ve always had a soft spot for him.

The average weight of the team for the Vuelta is 3kg less than the Tour.
Not sure that is by design or just who is left over at the end of the season

really happy today.

One thing I did for the team was the calculation of the pull times and power targets, with the objective of getting to the end as quickly as possible and as depleted as possible.

We take the data from physiological tests, their CDA data and measurements from test runs in 2nd, 3rd....8th position. We crunch it all, and figure out their postion, pull, who climbs....make a plan, try it once, twice and pray they don't crash.

It is just "science" but I am told the biggest impact is the riders believe in the plans. It clicked for the first time at the tour this year and I think this is the first time they ever win a TTT. I got a note from one of the riders after asking how close to plan he was and saying, I feel this is F1....In a good way (I think).

I am getting the scoop on their boss' run for Kona. He's gunning for his AG. We'll keep that in another thread but apparently he is on the Dev 1,000,000m swim program. His I swim is down by over 10min apparently.

if said boss is Vino, your entire last paragraph is incredibly tone deaf. I understand that you may not wish to criticize those who sign your paycheck, but you are basically trying to buff a shine on the turd that is Vino, and it is a bit nauseating

You want to make benefit glorious city and team of Nur-sultan, that's your prerogative, just don't expect the rest of us to go along with the whitewashing and normalization of Vino

Point taken.

The intent was not to buf turd. I thought it was funny that he, like Dev has become a "swimmer". That's it, that's all.

BTW, he doesn't sign any paychecks for me and I have no problem criticizing what he or anyone around him did back in their time.

understood; apologies for being rather pointed in my response

understood; apologies for being rather pointed in my response

really happy today.

One thing I did for the team was the calculation of the pull times and power targets, with the objective of getting to the end as quickly as possible and as depleted as possible.

We take the data from physiological tests, their CDA data and measurements from test runs in 2nd, 3rd....8th position. We crunch it all, and figure out their postion, pull, who climbs....make a plan, try it once, twice and pray they don't crash.

It is just "science" but I am told the biggest impact is the riders believe in the plans. It clicked for the first time at the tour this year and I think this is the first time they ever win a TTT. I got a note from one of the riders after asking how close to plan he was and saying, I feel this is F1....In a good way (I think).

I am getting the scoop on their boss' run for Kona. He's gunning for his AG. We'll keep that in another thread but apparently he is on the Dev 1,000,000m swim program. His I swim is down by over 10min apparently.

I'm doing 1200km per year, but I am not riding 20,000km and running 3000km like he probably is.

Said it before and will say it again: these are the most civil of ST threads.