It's interesting looking at the big picture chart again, in the context of where we now are.
What I now find most striking is that, while we know that Tommy put in massive mileages in June and July with team support, the distances he was doing into September and October, when he would have been riding on his own (what date did the pacing stop?), were still huge - far more than either Kurt or Steve has consistently managed.
Kurt has the advantage of having Tommy's mark to aim for but extrapolating the trend of his last couple of months suggests that, given shortening days and worsening weather, it is by no means in the bag for him.
Steve looks like he has got his strategy sorted out with a very solid two and a half months. Slightly below what he did for a similar period in the Summer but, we hope, at a level that he can sustain. Ironic that, after all the concern about Kurt copying Steve's strategy, it has ended up being the other way round!