It’s obvious that genetically you can be more of a climber, a rolleur, a ttier. It’s also obvious that training your body for different goals can improve your performance at any given speciality. Having said that we also know that a guy can train 6 hours a day for being a great climber and despite of that can be beaten by a guy that work less hours. Just a question… why do professional riders do training camps at high altitude? To improve their performance in the mountain stages right? So can one conclude that a guy that was born at high altitude and starts to ride a bike from young age at those mountains will have an edge if he turns into a professional rider in the future?
You're right that you can improve your performance by specific training and careers change with that in mind. When you talk about riders from Columbia and Ecuador; they don't have many training options unless they move to a coastal town. It's a glamorous profession for them and it has the same attraction as NBA basketball has for every gifted, tall kid worldwide. Glory and money draw the best from those environments. A Peruvian friend noted that kids there are catching the bug.
"why do professional riders do training camps at high altitude ?" Not only to improve their performance in the mountain stages. Also not climbers, domestiques, TT-specialists do training camps at altitude. And. A marathon runner also do training camps at high altitude. It is even clearer that it is not about climbing better.
You only need a few weeks to get teh benefits of altitude camps, while all the racing is done in relatively low altitude, high oxygen environments. Between the two I don't doub selective pressure on performing at sea level is more important than selective pressure in performing at super high altitude.
This is the Evenepoel thread. Truth is an illusion.Well this all started with that "natural born climber" sentence regarding Evenepoel which I still believe by common sense that it's a valid and true statement, there are indeed riders that are build for climbing
Yeah....this is a horrible thing to do to your body.Good that you bring up Levi Leipheimer!!
A little more cramped, but not that far off from Remco given 10 year difference in TT position knowledge. (biggest change since the 2000s). His weight and height are also the same as Remco.
But Levi was a lot more limited in his power output than Remco ofcourse. (at least compared to what Remco is racing and Levi was racing against).
I think that Remco might even win from him in the sprint
I just want a Remco vs Almeida showdown!! Waiting for it since last years Giro !!
Thats 61-62kg?
Ofcourse he still needs to do more intensive trainings, so hard to determine how it impacts his wattages.
Also from an interview: His most important goal in the vuelta is a stage victory, a nice spot in the final classification would be a nice extra.
So lets wait and see how it goes...
I only read that he said he is now 2kg lighter than when he won San Sebastian in 2019. Which should put him at 63 or slightly below.
Here's the quote on Sporza:
www.velonews.com
I found the audio file. He says (in English) 1.5-2kg since 3 years ago.Remco Evenepoel on Clásica San Sebastián return: 'I am the lightest I've ever been'
Belgian superstar is coming off three-week altitude camp with the Clásica, Vuelta a España and world championships in his sights.
Velonews title is misleading as it does not say that in his quote in the article. It specifically says this season and 2kgs since LBL.
A lot of the rest seems in line with Sporza (tho my Flemish is very rusty - only learned it in elementary school a long long time ago).
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