You must have missed the part where I said there were parts of the deep sand you could ride through, but carry on. I also saw a whole lot of people running in parts of deep sand where they come off with no momentum. It's interesting where they ran every lap through the deep sand and where they didn't, which is to my point. That's not going to change, because of the weather. Deep sand like that isn't going to be affected by the weather. But I only worked with beach building and sand gradients for 2 years as first career job post college, so that's why I came to that conclusion.

Like I said, everyone will power through the 1st sand section down the big hill drop. And there will be a whole lot of running on the back end of the big sand pit where there is no momentum to be had that will connect back to the hard grass/mud terrain.

(I didn't really think it was that complicated to come to that conclusion that riding through thick sand will likely causing more running than riding, but carry on)

I'm really pulling for Wout to bash everyone.

So I did a B Crit City race but on the Dolphin course. On a scale of 1-10 for awful, it was a 12.2.

Thanks?

Hopefully you mean it was a sufferfest and not that the course/racing sucked 😬

A tribute btw to Diesel Dumoulin:
https://www.youtube.com/...;ab_channel=OwainK81

Edit: Forgot to mention, the GP la Marseillaise finish is broadcasted on Eurosport 1 right after the finish of CX Worlds, the last 1.5h of the race is on tv. The field is decent since a few of the other races that would kick off the road season were cancelled. Gilbert, Wellens, Degenkolb, Trentin, Boasson Hagen,.. https://www.procyclingstats.com/...rture/2021/startlist

Could be an interesting race. 3.8k at an avg. of 7.9% and then it's only 28k to go with a tempo climb of 7.2k at 3.1% avg. (includes a part of 2k at 6%) and then mostly downhill towards the finish. Punchers race with a sprint from a reduced group at the end?

The other thing Wiggo said today was Phinney had the biggest watts and best w / kg in the race; but not the best position. It made me wonder what peak Phinney was doing. Wiggo's power is where we think Ganna is. Phinney being there is pretty insane.

Such a shame to see his career having been cut short

A while back, a few people on this forum were seriously bashing Phinney, which I thought was quite unfair. To them, he's the wash-out whose career petered out, nevermind that the dude is lucky to be able to walk. They also conveniently forgot that Phinney won a Giro prologue and wore the Maglia Rosa for a few days and had a strong showing at Valkenburg Worlds (silver medal). Before Wiggo finally bagged rainbow stripes in the ITT in 2014, the best result he had was a silver, too, at the age of 31, whereas Phinney was 22).

Such a shame to see his career having been cut short

I hope that wasn't me. :)

It wasn't. Some seriously cringe-worthy snipes here.

It wasn't. Some seriously cringe-worthy snipes here.


And there was something similar on another forum I frequent, from the same time period, no less.

Those are crazy numbers.. Humbling to see that I can only manage that for 2' on my best day haha.

Unfortunately I missed the Wiggo era and the first time I saw something from Phinney was when he was eating fries at De Ronde in 2018 (I only started cycling and watching it in 2017) so I missed both in peak form. Would have been awesome to see those 2 in peak form, TT against the like of Ganna and Van Aert and some other good TT'ers.

I was watching a new Wiggo interview talking about the 2012 Olympics. 72 kg, 469 watt average over 50 minutes. 486 watts normalized. 4 - 8 - 6.

I've seen enough bashing this year! I want a pack of at least two to go deep, deep into the race. Maybe even a sprint finish, which we've seen precious few of this year.

Thankfully Betsema faded and didn’t win.