Lesser Known Road Racing for Women Thread

[JosefK]

Same thing that happened when Van Vleueten raced

Kiesenhofer will sneak away for gold again? ... Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Red Rick]

Vollering to go sub 40 minutes and OTL a few dozen riders?

 

[awavey]

ELB for the win ? cant see how Vollering catches 24secs from here

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Turned in way to late, Longo Borghini dusting them it seems.

With my limited knowledge of womens cycling I expected Vollering to win.

Edit: that aged well, so Vollering takes back like 40 seconds in the final and wins.

 

[awavey]

ok she did

 

[awavey]

39.47,19 Demi went under 40mins !!!

 

[awavey]

Demi with 1min26 GC lead, ELB moves to 2nd in GC, Realini drops to 3rd.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Course might be very slightly different in distance, and I don't remember whether weather was an issue, but Vollering beat the times of 20 men in the Romandie 2022 stage.

How many men will she beat today?

 

[yaco]

Vollering paced that ride beautifully when you consider she was down 24 seconds to Longo-Borghini at checkpoint two.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It's very much one of those where the result in a vacuum is zero surprise whatsoever, but the negative split on the upper part of the climb is still seriously impressive.

 

[awavey]

Vollering paced that ride beautifully when you consider she was down 24 seconds to Longo-Borghini at checkpoint two.

exactly, it looked like the fastest times for that last sector from T2 were around the 10mins mark, which would have put Vollering at 40:12 and possibly behind Kadzow as well at best, interestingly ELBs time was gained in T1-T2, as she took the longest of the riders in the top 5, ~11mins to finish the last sector.

but Vollering in the end did the last sector in 9mins30. and she said post race she paced upto T2, then went all in on the final 4km and didnt even look at the power meter, just went on feel and thats how she did it.very impressive riding,

I didnt see the start so dont know if they mucked about with swapping TT bikes for road bikes in T1, which apparently the men are planning to do. I know some of the womens teams said they were just road biking it the whole way.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Vollering to go sub 40 minutes and OTL a few dozen riders?

10 riders took >125% of Volering's time, so OTL

 

[Red Rick]

It's very much one of those where the result in a vacuum is zero surprise whatsoever, but the negative split on the upper part of the climb is still seriously impressive.

It would be nice to know the exact average gradient of the T1-T2 split and T2-T3 split to say if other riders just collapsed or not, but I think it's very much in Vollerings style to pace the first 2/3rds of the climb more conservatively,

 

[Mina.S]

Yesterday 9 OTL, today 10.

Demi is doing some damage.

 

[awavey]

It would be nice to know the exact average gradient of the T1-T2 split and T2-T3 split to say if other riders just collapsed or not, but I think it's very much in Vollerings style to pace the first 2/3rds of the climb more conservatively,

T1-T2 is 7% average
T2 to finish is 8% average

if my dodgy maths works

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It would be nice to know the exact average gradient of the T1-T2 split and T2-T3 split to say if other riders just collapsed or not, but I think it's very much in Vollerings style to pace the first 2/3rds of the climb more conservatively,

It is also, however, very strange for SD Worx to play it perfectly tactically.

 

[Red Rick]

It is also, however, very strange for SD Worx to play it perfectly tactically.

Who says this is tactically perfect? The split is likely more negative than optimal

 

[RedheadDane]

Talbot wins the final stage in the Pyrenees.

 

[Netserk]

It would be nice to know the exact average gradient of the T1-T2 split and T2-T3 split to say if other riders just collapsed or not, but I think it's very much in Vollerings style to pace the first 2/3rds of the climb more conservatively,

T1 at 436 m altitude.
T2 at 996 m altitude.
Finish at 1249 m altitude.

 

[awavey]

Kasia in a break, with no Sd Worx riders 2min35 ahead of the peloton, 50km to go

 

[yaco]

Well Niamh Fisher- Black will not bring the break back by herself, so other teams will need to help with the chase. Anyway NFB is mad if she renews with SD Worx.

 

[awavey]

Splintered on the climb, CanyonSram riding for Kasia or Neve ?

Vollering leading group with Labous,ELB & Realini trying to chase them down

 

[yaco]

You could not give Niewiadoma more than one minute on the last climb. I feel some teams made a tactical mistake in the last 70kms of the stage.

 

[yaco]

It seems like Niewiadoma will give the stage to Bradbury, when you consider Kasia could easily drop her on the descent.

 

[awavey]

Yes a surprise they let Kasia into the break, maybe Danny's infamous we don't plan for her, bites the SD worx train for once