I’ve had this on my to-do list for quite a while. Just added the power distribution to my charts. McNulty November, ISM textbook style base period implementation. What can’t be seen, those shorter tempo efforts are low cadence work.
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These histos allow such a better understanding of how these guys train. Dec/Jan 20/21 of Sonny Colbrelli. Stellar season. I’d say his real training started mid Dec. And once again plenty around these magic 300W.
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His january sessions look like spring classics races. A lot of hard work. Quite different from ISM approach.
That was a hell of a January block. Hard to imagine that anyone wouldn’t come out swinging from that if you survive it.
Robert Gesink, Team JV, GC domestique
Andorra based, base period, Dec 2020. Watts are even higher at sea level. Once again, training pretty much in upper Z2.
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and March brings plenty of racing
summary:
Dec: plenty of upper Z2
Jan: plenty of upper Z2
Feb: plenty of upper Z2 + sub-/threshold
Mar: two shorter stage races
traditional linear periodisation until race season messes everything up
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Joe Dombrowski, Nov 2021
First half of Nov peak in lower Z2. Picked it up slightly in the second half, peak moved slightly up. Additionally some tempo/sub-threshold work
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Does van Aert post power on strava? Seems to be on a roll, 7 wins out of 7 cross races. Would be interesting to get a glimpse of his autumn.
No, he does not post any power data.
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He’s a machine when it comes to power targets. Extremely impressive.
yeah guy is insanely consistent, I find it interesting that he seems to do a 3 minute test fairly regularly. He also loves those 3x60 blocks at about 90%.
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He just posted these stats on his Instagram account. So you can see hours, and altitude days. Not sure if “training hours” is total riding, or excluding race hours…
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Number of anti-doping controles is quite huge.
Finally had time to watch the video. I am glad I haven’t met him there. It would be humiliating to be passed by a runner (triathlete, no less) when riding 