brownbobby said:thehog said:Froome is now posting his training rides on Strava. His max heart rate is now 183bpm which strangely is 20 beats more than when he was attacking at 800w on Ventoux!
Without prejudice to the Ventoux 2013 and wider doping debate in general.....trying to draw comparisons between a sudden isolated spike in heart rate aligned with a one off big effort within the first hour of an otherwise low intensity January training ride, and heart rate towards the end of a long GT stage ridden in absolute peak summer form? Well that's tenuous at best.
Most people who've ridden a bike and studied how their HR responds at various times during training cycles would, i suspect, think this all looks within the range of normal.
What a way to miss the point; Froome on Ventoux maxed out at 161bpm during is 800w attacks. In his book he claims in max heartrate is 165bpm. Here on a long and steady ride up his first climb he consistently goes to 183bpm. What’s up with that? Either 165bpm is not his max and he used a motor on Ventoux or it’s a very long glitch. None the less Froome has now removed the offending evidence.