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Did you just actually compare from different climbs 1 on 1?I saw on climbing records that yates and froome did less than 40 min in 2018 zoncolan by a side that is more difficult than today's side. So it was a good performance today by yates and bernal, but not monstruous.
Astana looks like they were slowing the pace down!!It looks like the stage was raced flat out thanks to typical Astana strategy. It makes for interesting racing, but sometimes is eerily similar to moviestar
But they won't touch Gibo's record for the other side.The record was expected to be broken. It has been too long since it was ridden the last time.
It's a 2007 record only a minute faster than 2018. Reckon they can break the 39 minute mark quite easily.But they won't touch Gibo's record for the other side.
Until they ride it!But they won't touch Gibo's record for the other side.
Should be noted by the way that the different start would account for ~20m difference in altitude and thus a ~40s differnece.
I'm just saying that 6.2 w/kg in a 40 min effort is very "beliavable" for riders like bernal, pogacar, froome, roglic in the mountains. Fast but nothing suspicious.Did you just actually compare from different climbs 1 on 1?
I'm just saying that 6.2 w/kg in a 40 min effort is very "beliavable" for riders like bernal, pogacar, froome, roglic in the mountains. Fast but nothing suspicious.
According to Strava he was as fast as Dombrowski/the gc group in 2016. Of course it's hard to compare because that time the stage was longer and they still had Valparola and the Mür di Giat afterwards, where people lost minutes, the stage was much longer and had more climbing (and altitude) before the Giau, but the weather was nicer.On damiano caruso's strava i saw that he made 396 watts on giau. If it's 67 kg for caruso, 5.9 w/kg. So bernal did 6/6.1 w/kg on giau.
I think bernal never shows his numbers in the races.According to Strava he was as fast as Dombrowski/the gc group in 2016. Of course it's hard to compare because that time the stage was longer and they still had Valparola and the Mür di Giat afterwards, where people lost minutes, the stage was much longer and had more climbing (and altitude) before the Giau, but the weather was nicer.
Anyway, Bernal usually uploads his rides, so we'll probably get his actual numbers.
Caruso's Strava file: https://www.strava.com/activities/5350195321#2831911704198846464
Overall the climbing level at the Giro is high, but clearly not at the WTF levels that we had post-Covid until now. Maybe that's also the effect of riding the Giro with bad weather.
He has uploaded his ride when he won the stage that finished on the sterrato climb.I think bernal never shows his numbers in the races.
I agree, the level on the giro is high, but for example, comparing bernal numbers with pogi numbers on tour 2020 or tirreno adriatico, bernal stands no chance against pogi.
Tbh I consider Zoncolan to be pretty big performances, it's still beating a 2003 time by some margin. Today, I think the weather factor is more important than the difficulty of the stage, seeing as gaps are in the minutes and Bernal still takes a heap of the record.According to Strava he was as fast as Dombrowski/the gc group in 2016. Of course it's hard to compare because that time the stage was longer and they still had Valparola and the Mür di Giat afterwards, where people lost minutes, the stage was much longer and had more climbing (and altitude) before the Giau, but the weather was nicer.
Anyway, Bernal usually uploads his rides, so we'll probably get his actual numbers.
Caruso's Strava file: https://www.strava.com/activities/5350195321#2831911704198846464
Overall the climbing level at the Giro is high, but clearly not at the WTF levels that we had post-Covid until now. Maybe that's also the effect of riding the Giro with bad weather.
I think it should be 6/6.1 w/kg, not 5.8 w/kg. Caruso did 5.9 w/kg, by the information of his strava.
Just wait until >we begin to export some W52-FCPorco riders...6.1 w/kg for joao almeida today on sega di ala. Very close to pogacar's level.
Almeida with a supercharged performance!6.1 w/kg for joao almeida today on sega di ala. Very close to pogacar's level.
The underwhelm is killing me.If I timed it right Simon did the whole climb in almost exactly 29min.