Recent content by rafa92

yes okay, I said not very compatible, I'm not saying it's completely incompatible. When you look at the profile it's certainly different than what you would find in a mountain stage in week 3 at the TDF. Ofc he has to race LBL, he has his 2 weeks after PR for recovering and staring preparations...

I know FW is a prestigious race but certainly not at the level of monuments/GTs/WCs/Olympics, and it makes zero sense for pogacar, who has already won it multiple times, to race it when it's clearly bad for his preparation going forward. If you look at how his calendar has been prepared this...

exactly this, lbl also is not very compatible with GC racing but it's a monument. The point is that as you say FW this year makes no sense, after roubaix he needs at least 2 weeks of specific training for long climbs before romandie

FW does not qualify for the most important races (those are monuments, WCs, GTs, olympics plus in the case of pog SB because he really likes it). Pogacar doesn't go to FW because he believes it's best for his preparation going forward, it has nothing to do with cosnefroy

ofc he can do the switch fast but he still needs some time, last year after liege he immediately went to sierra nevada on altitude camp, this year he can't do that because he has romandie, so I can see why he decided to have 2 weeks between PR and liege where he started training for the tour...

it's from yesterday. Not incompatible? how can he train on long climbs in the alps above 2000m and also be in belgium at the same time? The guy has trained specifically for races like MSR, flanders and PR since now, 2 weeks is the bare minimum after roubaix to start preparing for long climbs and...

there are multiple videos of him training on the tt bike on la turbie (similar profile to the climb they will do at the tour in the tt) and also of him training on the high mountains

this is what he has started to work on after roubaix, sustained efforts on long climbs at altitude (above 2000m)

no it does not serve for preparation of long climbs, do you see a 12 km at 8% climb you might find at the tour? and yes it creates problems for training, because you loose tre days (the race day, one where you travel and one for the recon). He has 2 weeks after roubaix, that's the bare minimum...

the point is that before roubaix he could never really do a block of training specifically focused on long climbs, if he did FW even these 2 weeks of preparation for long climbs would have been disrupted completely. The problem is not lipowitz in romandie, the goal for him is to start preparing...

right decision, he has to start preparing for long climbs at some point, he has focused on classic training so far, he needed at least a couple of weeks considering that after lbl he will go immediately to romandie

I am very curious to see his level on long climbs, in an interview from prieto they say that this year ha started training for climbing later than in other seasons to be more ready for the classics, so let's see his level on long cimbs. Skipping amstel and fleche is a good thing because he can...

his interview is ridiculous and completely false. I have rewatched pogacar's chase, in the first KMs he is alone and he has no motorbike in front of him, while the main group clearly has one. Then when pollitt and morgado help him there's a moto in front of their group but it's at a big...

apart from the fact that riding on a bike that is not from your team on the cobbles is a big problem, the other point is that if you watch the video morgado was just behind him when he stopped so if he got on his bike he would have been able to get to the main group almost immediately, getting...

the video is really funny, he looks at pogacar and it seems like he couldn't care less about his problems