2x1’/30" + 3x30"/30" + 5’-8’ (depending on hill available)
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Dude has a very responsive heart! #22
Really? That’s me yesterday
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Perhaps you need to send your domestique resume to INEOS. 
Snapshot of EB’s Giro 19 build. What I find striking, he trains basically the same way year round. May it be November, April or June. Even now.
and here is his interpretation of short-intermittent+threshold (I guess):
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What!? How did he ever win the TDF without doing any of Seiler’s magic 8 minute VO2 sessions!? 
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I’ve found the magic … but not with EB. Jack Haig has been using them in August. Podium yesterday. Probably because of the magic 
he seems to ride them at 100% FTP
[actually I find it really interesting how he switched from his TdF training to this training. Wondering if this is already prep for worlds?]
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but he dares to deviate
EB probably saves the magic for the year he tackles the triple …
On a more serious notes, what I’m wondering is where the progression in EB’s training is. Especially since he’s still so young. Can’t really make this out. However, with Jack Haig’s training you could really see how he has been building towards this year’s TdF. Or even in August now, there is an apparent progression
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Looks like 10 times 40’‘/20’’ but what is the rest at? Guessing from his weight, it is at 130/90% of FTP which seems ridiculous. He than finishes with 10 more minutes at SS which will keep the heart rate elevated for a longer time. I was ready to throw up after 10 x 40’‘/20’’ and my rest was at Z1-2.
Jack Haig did 424 watts for 20 minutes in January. Though perhaps the altitude in Andorra is high enough to make a difference.
Perhaps. 1000m difference, 5% less power on average?
However, adding to that one could assume that a 20min effort may not be the best estimator at the individual level. Just like 4mmol which is good at the population level but ranged from 2 to 6 mmol among study participants in the original study from many years ago. He seems to be doing graded tests, perhaps even spiroergometries and derive his Strava FTP from this. Or his zones in Strava are simply completely off (which does not look plausible either).
(I only know about this ride because I did the same climb full gas and went to Strava to see that he’d done it as part of an FTP test. Felt rather like I’d brought a butter knife to a nuclear war)
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The over under work looked painful but these two caught my eye.
Are those attacks anaerobic and/or would they push into neuromuscular power and then drop to tempo or threshold? (Or is that hard to tell without an FTP)
The different cadences switch from ~50rpm to ~80rpm iirc I’m guessing to simulate the harder climbs, but is this also to stimulate a different response in adaptation?
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I don’t think they are doing 50 RPM to prepare for harder climbs. They can always bring easier gears It might be the case in MTB world where you always run out of gears. Not on the road. It’s used to tire out your fast twitch fibers and make them work more aerobically. Also, it improves fatigue resistance of those fibers.
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Interesting 
At a reported weight of around 60kg that puts him almost at 6w/kg.
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I also do this on my long weekend rides. Well on my way to making that TdF podium. 
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Hi Nate, can you guys summarize it during the next podcast ? especially interested what Chad has to say 
Many thanks.
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Some of your best data scapes to date. Love this stuff.
I’m thinking to transcribe these into TR format as Disaster #2, #3, #4, #5 and put up a winter challenge. Kidding… his back to back rides (2 days) look like same work load as my best weeks (7 days). Ooof
-Mark
I’m not going to pretend I understand any of this but it wasn’t mentioned that EBs plan was actually to ride the Giro, not the TDF.
He was ruled out of the giro with a broken collarbone and only added to the TDF after Froomes incident.
I’m not sure how that would have affected his training
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