Speaking of flying, who gives a flying fu ck?Let's wait until the next rounds. One second faster than pre COVID times isn't exactly flying IMO
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Speaking of flying, who gives a flying fu ck?Let's wait until the next rounds. One second faster than pre COVID times isn't exactly flying IMO
I'm way out of shape my ****s are far from flying.Speaking of flying, who gives a flying fu ck?
WR proves my point that that 4.00 was a nothingburgerYeah guys, let's just wait. Not that impressive.
Are you telling me my 7bft tailwind assisted Strava KOMs are worthless?Also first sub 4min IP in an actual race. No disrespect to Lambie, who is one hell of an athlete, but records in events like this should only count in competition. Otherwise me might start counting training PRs in track and field.
Too much mental math but probably more.I wonder what's Ganna's absolute VO2max? 6.5 l/min? More? One can only guess.
Too much mental math but probably at the very least.
It's high but not crazy. And he's a lot better than everyone else at the IP.He would need a relative value of about 80 ml/min/kg for that (which is feasible), a monster heart anyway.
It's high but not crazy. And he's a lot better than everyone else at the IP.
But VO2 max estimates annoying as hell cause the machines you measure with have huge variability.
How often does Ganna do the IP? There's no reference for Top Ganna in an IP basically.Wow, just read the news. Didn't someone write after Ganna broke the hour record that he wasn't in top form? I think that can be put to rest.
So, you break two world records and can still go on the internet and see people talking about your bad form. Are you saying that everyone else in IP is just so much worse? I find that quite an extreme thing to say.How often does Ganna do the IP? There's no reference for Top Ganna in an IP basically.
Not sure that matters. Ganna broke the world hour record comfortably. Soon after he has now broken the IP record comfortably.How often does Ganna do the IP? There's no reference for Top Ganna in an IP basically.
FWIW, I agree. Based on the splits he was doing in the TP at Tokyo, although it's nowhere near perfect, comparing what he has done in other TP comps where he's done fast IP times after, I'd estimated back then he'd be in the 3:57 range in that shape with the aero setup he had there (different bike, bars, skinsuit and helmet today). Maybe 3:56 with the current setup. That was probably a fair bit faster of a track though.How often does Ganna do the IP? There's no reference for Top Ganna in an IP basically.
I don't think they'll bring in Bianchi to do TP for a while as it would essentially be saying to the sprint project guys that they are preemptively giving up. If Italy doesn't qualify for the Olympics in the team sprint I could see them adding him though. Really a much more important change would be the national team getting someone other than Villa to produce the turn strategies.How long until our local guy Bianchi becomes the first man on the Italian IP team instead of Lamon? He set jet another Italian 1KM record.
Ganna vs Milan in the IP final is a nice one.
IMO Ganna should go for the record again, but at altitute, so that nobody can get it by getting an advantage there. At the same altitude I only see guys with a legit track background who are top TTers like Bissegger and Küng having a legit shot at beating his record. All the other top TTers would have to work some time to get the track experience needed and I doubt that their teams would be too happy about that.
It's something that makes more sense in other sports. Beating records is for rowing and swimming and whatever.Speaking of flying, who gives a flying fu ck?
Beating records is also for events like IP and especially the hour. Cycling isn’t just bunch road racing and neither are Grand Tours with time trial stages.It's something that makes more sense in other sports. Beating records is for rowing and swimming and whatever.
Why? Makes perfect sense on the track, just not on the road with so many variables.It's something that makes more sense in other sports. Beating records is for rowing and swimming and whatever.
I suspect that Dan Bigham had every possible legal aero benefit he could get his hands on, as well as making the hour his 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority for the year, even over the Commonwealth Games/WorldsWow, just read the news. Didn't someone write after Ganna broke the hour record that he wasn't in top form? I think that can be put to rest. But I am still intrigued to know how Dan Bingham did what he did for the old hour record.
I didn't say bad form. I said no top form.So, you break two world records and can still go on the internet and see people talking about your bad form. Are you saying that everyone else in IP is just so much worse? I find that quite an extreme thing to say.