Recent content by pablohidalgo7

It's obvious that the current level of the peloton is insane, but it was also in 2024, and he could still win races and even dominate them in some cases. Since then, if we look at the wattage and other data, the overall improvement isn't that significant. Therefore, if he finds his best form...

Could be a coincidence but from when RBH started pacing until Roglic reached the summit, it was roughly 9-10 minutes effort, and I think he was playing with the powermeter just a few seconds after the summit...

When he says he's been working hard these past few weeks and hasn't been on vacation, I always interpret it as meaning the training camp has gone well and the numbers are looking good (whether that's enough to win these days is another matter), similar to what he said before last year's Volta a...

For me, this was Vermeersch's best physical performance of his entire career, better than Flanders or Roubaix top 10s, considering the elevation but especially the level of demand imposed by UAE. I imagined him at most reaching the level of what Van Aert did today.

I think Van Gils' absence is too decisive in this race. The team is decent enough to support a leader, but I don't see them achieving a big result. They should pray that everything goes well and that Veermesch gets a top 10 finish, or that Pellizzari can stay with Pogacar and the others for a...

Well today they made the same mistake as last year here, with Meeus in p30 before the bend and passing like 15 riders in the last metres, a bit frustrating for him with the legs he had this weekend.

Let's see how they do today, but the difference between how they raced yesterday and how they raced the classics last year seemed abysmal to me. Without an alien like Van del Poel, they would have had the race under control Wolfpack style, without a clear leader but with five men always in the...

Roglic is just a monster in fresh w/kg effort, I believe that in perfect shape and not affected by fatigue of the Hautacam stage he could have been even 20-30 secs closer to Vingegaard in Peraygudes, but that just my opinion. He doesn’t recover just like the other two, although high Kj...

@Peyresourde If it's not too much to ask, do you have the data and index of the main climbs of the Vuelta19? I've analyzed it multiple times with other "watt estimators" and w2w, but since your estimates seem more complete, I'm curious. I know you mentioned Javalambre positively, but there were...

Well with chain drop (was 19 or 21 seconds lost I think) it was more close to 55-1 min difference to Thomas and Almeida. And I was refering to all the estimations of that day and not only yours, but despite Zeeman claim t it´s quite posible that your last sentence is just the true and due to the...

It's curious how low the performances in Lussari were—well, in a manner of speaking, almost 6.4 w/kg for nearly half an hour after the two previous mountain marathons isn't that bad, but still... The thing is, Zeeman said it was one of Roglic's best days of his career (and it was understood he...

Del Toro is more explosive and a better classics rider overall (his ease on gravel, for example, is tremendous). However, Ayuso isn't far behind him in terms of climbing explosiveness, especially on climbs longer than 5-10 minutes, where I feel Del Toro is almost invincible. But in a sprint...

Del Toro's numbers are clearly inferior to Roglic's best performances in 2024 and 2023 on similar climbs (and with more fatigue), and similar to Primoz's few good performances last year, but obviously it remains to be seen whether he can recover that level, and even then, based on the course, he...

Huh, it seems RB Bora needs him more than initially expected...

This comment describes 8 out of 10 of Groenewegen's sprints (except for the periods when he had a dominant train in 2018-19). His lack of positioning is frustrating, although both here and in Besseges and Palma, the Rockets have done a poor job to be honest.