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red_flanders

red_flanders

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Lorzenz08 said:
People have to understand when you come back from injury, once healed of course, you need relatively little stimuli to make a lot of progress.

Progress goes really fast up to your "potential", and then once you get close to it, it goes slower and slower.

He doesnt need huge intensity to get close to be in "shape", his body will take him there almost automatically with normal training.
Once he will reach a certain level, thats where he will dramatically increase the intensity.
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I think the questions are about volume, not intensity. He's basically coming from zero fitness at this point. Would seem volume (as in winter training) would be the focus at this time, no?
 
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red_flanders said:
I think the questions are about volume, not intensity. He's basically coming from zero fitness at this point. Would seem volume (as in winter training) would be the focus at this time, no?
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If he's healthy enough for basic volume training. That's what I want to know.
 
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I actually think the fact that he's still in Belgium shows that he's not ahead of schedule.

If he were close to being race ready I'd think he would be in Spain for his final prep and his big training rides.

Unless it's just mentally easier to be close to his family during this period.
 
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Berflamand said:
I actually think the fact that he's still in Belgium shows that he's not ahead of schedule.

If he were close to being race ready I'd think he would be in Spain for his final prep and his big training rides.

Unless it's just mentally easier to be close to his family during this period.
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my thinking as well.

Plus, he did go for the entire course recon, not just part of it

Not in race winning shape by any means. But he'd likely do much better than Lance's 2005 PN performance
 
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i think we will see evenepoel be good enough to compete in Brabantse pijl and Tour de Romandie (if he participates there). I don't think he'll be good enough to truly combat Pogacar. But he should be able to have a dig at WvA on that kinda terrain, and have enough competition under his belt against non-Pogacar cyclists to try and win Romandie.
 
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It's good to see these kind of images.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3483718521936319

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Peyroteo94

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He should be in Calpe by now so this really means he is not ahead of his schedule. It will be hard for him to even be competitive in Ardennes so I think he should race Giro del Trentino and Romandie to get some racing miles before an altitude training camp. It is softer and safer to race these stage races than chaotic races like ardennes classics IMHO.
 
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Peyroteo94 said:
He should be in Calpe by now so this really means he is not ahead of his schedule. It will be hard for him to even be competitive in Ardennes so I think he should race Giro del Trentino and Romandie to get some racing miles before an altitude training camp. It is softer and safer to race these stage races than chaotic races like ardennes classics IMHO.
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He's not in Calpe because he wants to be close to family since he's bummed out
 
Peyroteo94

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Berniece said:
He's not in Calpe because he wants to be close to family since he's bummed out
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That doesn't make sense IMO. He is with his family since November. If he didn't crash, he would have done a training camp in December and January. Maybe you are right but I think it is more plausible that he isn't ahead of his schedule.
 
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Peyroteo94 said:
That doesn't make sense IMO. He is with his family since November. If he didn't crash, he would have done a training camp in December and January. Maybe you are right but I think it is more plausible that he isn't ahead of his schedule.
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I also don’t think he’s ahead of schedule, I think he’s just on schedule for TDF. I don’t think location has to do anything with his schedule though.
 
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