Hopefully it goes better than Shaq and free throws.
Rather secret tactics to be applied by team Slovenia.
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A bit of rain while Rogla training, question was asked by a journalist, if he has seen the rainbow already. Today first training with the whole team is scheduled. Mood seems to be good all emphasising on how it's important to be homogeneous and for each to do their part to the fullest.
The recovery ability of these guys is hard to believe. I would have thought they'd be tapering and putting much less effort prior to such an important race.
I don't know if it's a recent change in training but I've seen some coaches say tapering too much was one of their own most common mistakes.
With how much load these guys can tolerate and recovery they have they probably don't wanna taper too much for a monument/WC. Similar reason to why they still do rides on rest days in GTs when conventional weekend warrior wisdom is to not do zone 1 rides and instead take the day off.
Interesting. I get the ride on the rest day, but it's usually pretty short and chill. Doing 6 hours a few days before seemed like a lot. I'm sure they know what they're doing, just remarking on it as a weekend warrior.
I believe current view is that fatigue in some ways is delayed onset or it the effect on performance is delayed onset, and first performance goes up temporarily before it goes down. Additionally, while common wisdom is to do max 2 interval sessions a week it's now more common among elite athletes to do a full block of race specific trainings with max efforts before starting to taper, basically building up fatigue for a temporary gain in fitness. Dylan Johnson has a nice video on that. Hence, peaking in the 3rd week of a GT is truly a thing and not just a mirage of 'getting worse more slowly than everyone else'.
A lot of this is gonna be pretty specific to top athletes though, and not something my couch potato bum should try to do. I did a 2km TT on the way home from work cause it was pouring and I still haven't recovered.
It all depends on your level of fitness. If it is very high, you can establish a nice pace when you aren't pushing at all and then when you push hard, after a big effort, just dial it down a bit to not build up excess fatigue. This is as true for the weekend warrior as it is for the world class rider, except the latter just goes way faster.
Lets see then if the rainbow jersey will act as a shield, especially at the Tour, or if it was a horrendous idea to begin with.
Go Rogla!
Go Rogla!
I might be wrong but I think he is not in great shape.
It's the most obvious Rogla thing ever.
There was never anything coming his way in these Worlds. I do hope his back is okay (he said in an interview a few days ago he still feels it) but he's already won his huge prize this season so whatever happens now (like Emilia) is just a bonus. It'll be hard to win that one as well, i.e. sooner or later, one of these other guys will beat him there.
He did set-up Pogi. Might as well park it after that and rest up for his own targets.
The best he could do in this race for Pog (and himself) was mark moves and potentially get a free ride in some dangerous groups after Pog launched.
A pull by Rogla set up one of the most memorable attacks in recent memory. Then Tratnik helped to bridge the gap. All in all the Slovenia team did their job.
Yep, Rogla almost decided both WCTT and WCRR, and yet the haters still hate!
His Vuelta victory was as impressive as any other.
I would say his second most impressive considering he had a team try to lose him the race repeatedly.
??? he had the strongest team in the race by far.
also that doesn't even make sense. if they were actually bad and trying to help him lose the race then it would easily be his most impressive win.
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