Juan Ayuso discussion thread

[Logic-is-your-friend]

About time, his previous win was over 8 months ago.

 

[Lequack]

Magnificent ride.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1764661440223358983

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1764661440223358983

 

[pastronef]

3rd WT ITT win for Ayuso, after last year Romandie and TdSuisse (beating Remco and WVA)

 

[Offline]

Him and Pogacar together going to be good!

 

[AmRacer]

Hope he can give Vinge something to think about.

 

[Didinho]

He really is one of the best in short TT’s.

 

[Mayomaniac]

*starts footballl-style chant*

"There's only Juan Ayuso..."

 

[Valv.Piti]

Grande, grande performance!! Absolutely huge. This shouldn't be understated.

A real contender for T-A and the only rider with a realistic shot at Jonas. Vamos Juan!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Juan Ayullrich is on fire. Vingegaard has his work cut out for him.

 

[pastronef]

don't let us be fooled by a day off by Jumbo

 

[Miha81]

don't let us be fooled by a day off by Jumbo

It's those storm trooper helmets I tell you

 

[KZD]

He really is one of the best in short TT’s.

Actually before this season Ayuso's two TT wins had come in hilly TT's but he seems to have step up his game for this season.

If we have a hilly WCTT course in the next seasons he could be one of the main contenders for gold.

 

[DNP-Old]

I don't want to be overly dramatic, maybe he just had a bad day and will erase all doubts tomorrow, but I'm concerned. How much progression does he still have in him as a climber? He's been more or less a pro since he was a junior, having his own dietician, training major hours. His progression between his final days at Bathco and now with UAE seem rather minimal. He was dropping major numbers with Colpack in the Girobio, but it would appear there is no next level, whereas he has taken major strides as a time trialist.

 

[Salvarani]

Solid race from Ayuso. Not much more to say. Anything else is an overreaction.

 

[Netserk]

While he may have picked all the low-hanging fruit before stepping up, I still think that he will gradually improve and challenge for a GT in 3-5 years.

But it's no secret that I think he's overrated currently.

 

[Salvarani]

While he may have picked all the low-hanging fruit before stepping up, I still think that he will gradually improve and challenge for a GT in 3-5 years.

But it's no secret that I think he's overrated currently.

Not really his fault.

 

[pastronef]

don't let us be fooled by a day off by Jumbo

voilà

 

[Netserk]

Not really his fault.

Indeed, it's a comment for the forum.

 

[SafeBet]

I don't want to be overly dramatic, maybe he just had a bad day and will erase all doubts tomorrow, but I'm concerned. How much progression does he still have in him as a climber? He's been more or less a pro since he was a junior, having his own dietician, training major hours. His progression between his final days at Bathco and now with UAE seem rather minimal. He was dropping major numbers with Colpack in the Girobio, but it would appear there is no next level, whereas he has taken major strides as a time trialist.

I wonder whether the problem might be durability?
TTs nowadays are mostly in the 10-30 minutes range of effort and he's clearly cream of the crop at those.
But he doesn't have an extra gear at the end of the stage, after being on the saddle for 4-5-6 hours.

Interesting take by @mou in the Paris-Nice thread, suggesting San Millan can't take you to the next level.

 

[Netserk]

While it did seem like a fast stage today, they had ridden less than three hours when Vingegaard attacked and the vertical gain was quite limited.

 

[mou]

I wonder whether the problem might be durability?
TTs nowadays are mostly in the 10-30 minutes range of effort and he's clearly cream of the crop at those.
But he doesn't have an extra gear at the end of the stage, after being on the saddle for 4-5-6 hours.

Interesting take by @mou in the Paris-Nice thread, suggesting San Millan can't take you to the next level.

Matxin is the best scout in the world and has top contacts in the world, as a tactician he is 0 and persistently interferes in the work of DS, the only DS expert in that team at an acceptable level is Fabio Baldato, 2+2 is always 4, if Pogacar is so far was trained by a quasi-trainer who only prescribed endurance rides of 5W/kg and FTP 15 min intervals 2 times a week after zone 2 and the rest of his training was based on prescribing training from training peaks, imagine what can happen when a top-level coach takes over Sola, if one Yates progressed from 32 years old after 1 year of working with him, how much Pogi will progress 🤭, UAE has the best TT setup in the world, Pogačar finally has a coach who trains him with a Core device for heat training and for the first time you could see Pogacar in Strade Bianche to wear Core attached to a heart rate strap, he finally has real training and intervals for hills for the first time in his career and he will have properly conducted altitude training after the Giro, I can't tell you how I know all that, but believe me I have insight firsthand in all that, how else would I show you Pogačar's part from training on 24.2.2024 and that his 349w is 5.33w/kg as a base training and FTP 431w, that he will be 20% better is frankly a little too hasty, but if could predict for the Giro Pogacar will be at 65 kg, at both TTs he will win, at 15 min he will have 7.3 w/kg, at 20 min 7 w/kg, at 30 min hill 6.7 and at 40+ min hill he will have 6.5 w/ kg and on the Tour kg less and the strength is the same, so if Vingegard gets that from me, he has 👏👏👏👏

 

[Didinho]

Could this be the longest sentence ever produced? My brain hurts.

And what about Ayuso? Why is it only Pogi with a new trainer?

 

[mou]

Could this be the longest sentence ever produced? My brain hurts.

And what about Ayuso? Why is it only Pogi with a new trainer?

because he realized that Inigo is a charlatan and since Pogi is good friends with Novak and Yates who achieved the best numbers in their lives and who are coached by Sola, Pogačar was looking for a change, check if Pogi is unfollowed Inigo from Instagram and all networks and things will be clearer.😉😉

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Could this be the longest sentence ever produced? My brain hurts.

Now we know who CyclistAbi has stolen all his full stops from.

 

[Unchained]

Couple of interviews in Spanish and English, Juan Ayuso mature beyond his years, great attitude and angle and gave huge confidence boost to Isaac Del Toro. So it might not be the perfect outcome for UAE but as a team, and temperament, impressive in my opinion.