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6 watts/onna boar

By veloclinic · On June 4, 2013

now that we’ve got some power estimates

via veetoo

via the cycling power lab simulator

uh bit less bat shit crazy than ferrari

for CPL vs SRM r = .9 according to @scienceofsport

ie pretty damn good

lets hit the numbers

first up

these are a series of watts/kg from the major Giro Climbs

based on the 6 watt/kg rule

we can easily go

clean, doper, clean, clean, clean, doper, doper, clean

but

adding in uh touch more information

like plotting watts/kg versus time

and realizing that all the data is just one rider

suggests

the 6 watts/kg

is uh bit watts onna boar

without the understanding that threshold power

is not uh one off number

but a curve

that changes based on the length uv effort

the altitude

n just fer kicks

lets puttin uh touch uv hypothetical brad

uh guy

who cant punch quite as hard as nibali

but kin hang on longer

to illustrate why Brad might have been so dominant

in a TDF with a team that could ride the front and effectively stretch the climbs

cracking Nibali before uh final Ks kick

uh Giro with shorter climbs being effectively further shortened

by coming in slow

waiting to punch halfway up

were Nibali could truly have anaerobically put in time

aerobically superior

Brad

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