Quote from: Hot Flatus on 15 September, 2020, 06:48:07 amData?Pogačar set a new record up the Peyresourde.On the Puy Mary last year's Tour winner, Egan Bernal, couldnt keep up with the Slovenians despite producing some of his best ever numbers.It isnt proof of anything, but it does suggest abnormal performances.A VAM of 1711, hardly abnormal.Keep going Sheep with your arm chair critiques, opinions are like arseholes etc, etc.
Data?Pogačar set a new record up the Peyresourde.On the Puy Mary last year's Tour winner, Egan Bernal, couldnt keep up with the Slovenians despite producing some of his best ever numbers.It isnt proof of anything, but it does suggest abnormal performances.
Quote from: LMT on 15 September, 2020, 12:28:10 pmQuote from: Hot Flatus on 15 September, 2020, 06:48:07 amData?Pogačar set a new record up the Peyresourde.On the Puy Mary last year's Tour winner, Egan Bernal, couldnt keep up with the Slovenians despite producing some of his best ever numbers.It isnt proof of anything, but it does suggest abnormal performances.A VAM of 1711, hardly abnormal.Keep going Sheep with your arm chair critiques, opinions are like arseholes etc, etc.LMT is like an opinion.Besides, LMT is, as usual, wrong. Pogačars VAM was 1859 on his attack, or in other terms Pogačar did 6.7 W/kg for 24 minutes, at the end of a four-hour mountain stage, on the eighth consecutive day of the world's hardest bike race. Yeah. Normal.
Inevitably, Zwift/Sufferfest and other indoor training regimes worked better for some than others. Sagan and Valverde are famously not fans, and there will be plenty of others. On the other hand, there will be some who responded very well to the indoor training environment.
Quote from: TimC on 15 September, 2020, 11:49:20 amInevitably, Zwift/Sufferfest and other indoor training regimes worked better for some than others. Sagan and Valverde are famously not fans, and there will be plenty of others. On the other hand, there will be some who responded very well to the indoor training environment.Well, Valverde is sitting in 12th. Not bad for a 40 year old who doesnt like Zwift.
It did make me chuckle last night when David Miller made a comment that the Jumbo team were unbelievably good
Bernal quits.
Even allowing for controversies Bernal's losses are colossal, unlike, say, Quintana's. I suspect he's actually ill.
...Wouldn't be surprised to see him leave Ineos now.
Thats very disappointing. Wouldn't be surprised to see him leave Ineos now.
Col de la Loze: my first car wouldn't have got up there.
Quote from: T42 on 16 September, 2020, 03:28:48 pmCol de la Loze: my first car wouldn't have got up there.That’s why it’s Hors Category ( the categories are based on the gear a certain Citroen of long ago needed to get up the climb) Hors Category meant that it couldn’t get up.I doubt that such a Citroen even exists any more, and organisers have been known to over and under play categories, but the principle remains.