Covering 200.5 kilometers (130 km alone in the wind).
At a speed of 37.175 km/hr.
Averaging 281 watts when moving for the whole ride and 318 watts over the last two hours.
Averaging 324 watts while pedaling for the whole ride and 364 watts over the last 2 hours.
At an average cadence of 89 rpm.
Transferring 5,456 Kjoules of energy to his Cycleops PowerTap.
Taking, no joke, a total of 70 water bottles (480 ml each) from the car to keep himself cool and hydrated.
Attacking about a quarter of the way up the Col des Saisies for 30 seconds at 544 watts, which settled into a 5-minute peak of 451 watts, which continued for 10 minutes at an average of power of 431 watts, and left everyone in his dust after 30 minutes at an average power of 401 watts.
Spending 13.2% of his time or 43 minutes coasting like a rocket on the descents and another 60% between 4 to 7 watts per kilogram of body weight (aka, the pain cave).
Holding onto 373 watts over the Col de Joux-Plane.
Hitting a max speed of 83.7 km/hr (51.9 mph) and flying like a Phoenix on his way to the most incredible moment in sports I have ever witnessed.
Even this guy hammering away barely hits 1000 calories/hour. I think most of us over-estimate how many calories we’re using/hour. How much does he weigh?
He averaged 280 watts. Granted that the spikes are what kill you and he did a lot of coasting so his average is deceiving but isn’t 280 watts/hour about what the best pro’s average in am IM? A totally different beast between steady state IM vs. hills in a stage…but interesting.
his FTP has to be over 400 given 2 hours of pedaling watts at 364…he did 30 minutes at 401.
70 water bottles (34L / 9 Gal) of h20 for one rider is a lot, even if he’s dumping 75%of it.
I calculated my sweat rate on a couple of hot days based on how much I drank vs my start/finish weight and came up with somewhere around 1.9L/hr. I think this is on the high end of normal, but not ridiculous. That’s 0.5 gal/hr or something like 2.75gal over the race time. 9 gallons is a huge amount of water!!!
That said, I also like to spray my head and back with water on races, it does help a LOT to keep me cooled off.
Yeah, I would have to guess that if he’s able to maintain those sorta numbers on a 30 minute climb during a break away that long, that a fully rested TT effort would be in the 410-420 range??
Maybe Dr. A can stop arguing with me on the water-carrier thread long enough to speculate…
What I heard in an interview and thought was pretty amazing was that after he had “blown” on the climb on Wedneday and was struggling to the finish he was still averaging 225 watts. I wish I could average that many watts on an uphill finish after 200 km on a hot day.
Tom, The wireless version is not out yet to the public. I called them about it a month ago and they said anytime between now and the end of the year. It is in the Quality catalog, but shows “out of stock”. Should be pretty cool. Some lucky folks might have them though.
“his power average from the first TT of the tour was 440 watts for a 1h02~~”
I’m guessing though that’s Lim’s calculation on the estimated power, since he wasn’t using the Tap during the TT??
While I’m sure they have a good handle on his CDA, given the rolling nature of the course, and factoring in the wind, I question how accurate they can really get.
Also, @ 68 kg, that puts his TT effort over that of Boardman’s hour record, I believe–and literally ‘off the chart’. Not saying it’s impossible, but 440W seems questionable.
As a side note, why can’t Zipp at least make a PT disc for some of the top guys??
huge numbers. Its really too bad that he doesn’t wear a HRM, I dying to know what his HR was while he was pushing 373 watts going up Col du Joux Plane…
Yeah, I would have to guess that if he’s able to maintain those sorta numbers on a 30 minute climb during a break away that long, that a fully rested TT effort would be in the 410-420 range??
Maybe Dr. A can stop arguing with me on the water-carrier thread long enough to speculate…
In fact, Lim estimated Landis’ power during the first ITT as being 417-425 W.
huge numbers. Its really too bad that he doesn’t wear a HRM, I dying to know what his HR was while he was pushing 373 watts going up Col du Joux Plane…
Why?
Maybe one of the keys to his performance was dumping body heat outside the normal methods (sweat evaporation, airflow radiant cooling)
Maybe if the water he was pouring over himself were icy-cold. However, simply wetting the skin, e.g., by running through a sprinkler, does little or nothing to reduce core temperature during exercise:
