Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

[Lequack]

A bit from his ITT ride

https://twitter.com/x/status/1672123272945598466

View: https://twitter.com/davidcrmelj/status/1672123272945598466?s=20

 

[bNator]

A bit from his ITT ride

https://twitter.com/x/status/1672123272945598466

View: https://twitter.com/davidcrmelj/status/1672123272945598466?s=20

This looks great! He seems to be pushing as hard as ever. This is very reassuring.

 

[Didinho]

Bike change in a national championship, that's a first.

 

[Aimar16]

I wonder how many guys he overtook during ITT?

 

[Monsi]

I wonder how many guys he overtook during ITT?

Read a tweet that he overtook five riders and almost overtook another one (that one rider just finished before Pog by half a wheel I think). Don't know if the rider who just finished before him was the fifth one or he almost overtook a sixth rider.

 

[Red Rick]

Bike change in a national championship, that's a first.

Didnt he beat Rog in 2020 after he changed bikes amd Roglic didnt?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Bike change in a national championship, that's a first.

This was the moment that decided the race yesterday. You have to be smart if you lack watts (well done Teddy!)

 

[Pogačar's neighbor]

He overtook five cyclists, missing the sixth in finish only 2 m.....

 

[Miha81]

Didnt he beat Rog in 2020 after he changed bikes amd Roglic didnt?

Yes, he did. By 9 seconds or something like that in 2020.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Bike change in a national championship, that's a first.

Kind of unfair to be honest.

 

[Miha81]

Kind of unfair to be honest.

Why? He needs to practice bike change somewhere

 

[Didinho]

Kind of unfair to be honest.

In the clip you saw a line for a changing zone so I thinkt everyone could.

 

[Didinho]

Didnt he beat Rog in 2020 after he changed bikes amd Roglic didnt?

Didn't know this was also with a bike change, thanks.

 

[theyoungest]

In the clip you saw a line for a changing zone so I thinkt everyone could.

Of course you can change your bike. Change it as many times as you want. As long as the bikes are on the car.

 

[Lorzenz08]

As you said, mentally it's super difficult but one can simulate high intensity and large duration indeed. He definitely was trying to stay as fit as possible but I'm not really sure how a dedicated training weeks before a GT look like (I suppose there's a larger number of higher-zone workouts than normally). The ITT today showed that his anaerobic threshold isn't affected by the injury. But the impact on his performance and recovery during difficult stages of a long race is unknown yet (one can hope that the base training that he's done since last autumn is enough for that).

Yes it's still difficult to assess his GT form as the anaerobic threshold takes (obviously) less time to work on than the preparation for the extreme aerobic side needed to be powerful after days of taking hundreds of kms of racing in the legs.
Will see...

 

[pelotonIQ]

Why? He needs to practice bike change somewhere

In the clip you saw a line for a changing zone so I thinkt everyone could.

Not every rider has the budget of also having both a TT-bike and a regular bike, I saw many riders only going with their regular bikes, in this specific time trial it wouldn't have mattered since he was levels above everyone else but my personal opinion is that it is more fair if there are no bike changes in national TT.

Like that one time in Vuelta a San Juan where the TT was ridden in regular bikes because not everyone could bring their TT-bike.

 

[Miha81]

Not every rider has the budget of also having both a TT-bike and a regular bike, I saw many riders only going with their regular bikes, in this specific time trial it wouldn't have mattered since he was levels above everyone else but my personal opinion is that it is more fair if there are no bike changes in national TT.

I understand. But as this is meant as preparation race for him I guess the were not concerned by competitors but how to simulate GT circumstances?

 

[Nick2413]

He looks really lean. He’s shed his classics build.

 

[Gigs_98]

I feel a bit stupid for never having thought of this but if Pogacar would have spent more time on altitude without the injury, why didn't he do his home training at altitude? The way I understand altitude training, it should work just as well on a home trainer in a hotel room in Sierra Nevada, right? What am I missing here?

 

[Nick2413]

I feel a bit stupid for never having thought of this but if Pogacar would have spent more time on altitude without the injury, why didn't he do his home training at altitude? The way I understand altitude training, it should work just as well on a home trainer in a hotel room in Sierra Nevada, right? What am I missing here?

The whole train low - live high idea is that you can get better training at sea level then reap the benefits when sleeping at altitude, which I think is still the strategy most use today. He could go down the mountain to ride his trainer though so yeah idk.

 

[dazaau]

It's more perfect to van der poel.

The first stage is perfectly suited for Poga.

Pogi to go with mvdp over the last climb like RVV and then work like a slave with him to the line, taking second after mvdp and putting a gap between a chasing wout and Jonas.

 

[Lorzenz08]

The first stage is perfectly suited for Poga.

It is, but it's a 3 weeks race, with many racers who don't care if they blow their legs as long as they win and wear the yellow jersey for a few days.

 

[komarts]

Anyone know where to watch the slovenian nationals?

RTVSLO.SI

MMC - Multimedijski center RTV Slovenija. Najbolj objektivne in verodostojne informacije iz Slovenije in sveta, novice s področij kulture, športa in zabave.

www.rtvslo.si

The road race will be live on this page on Sunday from 16.15 CET, you will find the official broadcast in an article that will surely be on the top of the main page. Hope it's not geo-blocked.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Tell me Trentin will be part of the team in Tour. Can't believe they are not taking him to put Novak there.

 

[Salvarani]

Tell me Trentin will be part of the team in Tour. Can't believe they are not taking him to put Novak there.

Trentin was very good in Dauphine. He is still good enough to go for a stage-win or something.

Novak is more of a "pure" domestic. Not to patronize him but he will probably be fetching a lot of bottles. Maybe staying with Pog and be his roomate during the race. He is his countryman and that is something not to underestimate. It could be important for him to have that support. Three weeks is a long time. It is not just the hours they race each day.

They still have Bjerg and Laengen for the flat, outside of Novak.

Majka, Soler, Grosschartner and Yates should be enough support for the mountains.

Of course, Trentin is the better rider but Novak still serves a good purpose for Pog.

Trentin will probably race worlds and Vuelta.