Between now and the Tour..

[gingerwallaceafro]

What kind of training will the teams be doing? Will it be more altitude training and then a taper?

Very rarely hear about what goes on between Tour de Suisse/Dauphine and the Tour, I'm beginning to think it's only revealed by Yoda to true Jedi's..

 

[maltiv]

Here is an article on what Sky are doing, which is the usual altitude combined with reccing some stages. Weirdly enough, Wiggins is not a part of the group, as he apparently has his own training camp somewhere else

 

[maxmartin]

What kind of training will the teams be doing? Will it be more altitude training and then a taper?

Very rarely hear about what goes on between Tour de Suisse/Dauphine and the Tour, I'm beginning to think it's only revealed by Yoda to true Jedi's..

without a doubt, most of them are doing high altitude training in different mountains

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Without a doubt, most of them are doing their National Championships...

 

[RHRH19861986]

For sure, no more really hard training. Rest, regeneration, is now important, to arrive freshly and ready. The main work has been done until yesterday, when the last prep races or prep camps stopped.

The team camps now aren´t there for hard training anymore, just being together.

The benefits of alititide training take at least ten days to arrive after coming back from altitude, so they finish this mid June.

Reconnaisance training in the second half of June is just to get to know the roads, but not for altitude effects, but altitude doesn´t harm the shape either, because they just spend few hours a day in the area above 2000 m.

Main month for altitude stuff, creating a perfect basis for July, is still May, where you enhance red blood cells by spending weeks (2-4) in the mountains, 24h a day, and/or combining it with ...

 

[avanti]

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Main month for altitude stuff, creating a perfect basis for July, is still May, where you enhance red blood cells by spending weeks (2-4) in the mountains, 24h a day, and/or combining it with ...

I live at 5,200 ft and if I, or my fellow riders, drop to sea level for a couple of weeks then our altitude conditioning evaporates (although for me it comes back after a few weeks).

 

[Sophistic]

starting altitude training now is pretty dumb, your blood levels stay elevated only for 2-3 days at best after returning to sea level and then your system crashes and stays on a low level for up to 3 weeks, thats why a lot of riders did altitude training in may.

 

[RHRH19861986]

I live at 5,200 ft and if I, or my fellow riders, drop to sea level for a couple of weeks then our altitude conditioning evaporates (although for me it comes back after a few weeks).

I´ll stop discussion the clinic (the bad D**** word) after this post, but that´s what I suppose:

In May, in altitude, hematocrit and haemoglobin are raised in altitude, and this level is kept high in the weeks after, by using synthetic EPO and erythrozyte infusions stored before.

Sorry @ mods for talking clinic issues, won´t happen here in this thread any more, but here, the topic would just be half truth when this aspects aren´t even mentioned. Finished from my side.