Contador's Climbing Stats and Andy/Alberto TT comparison

frenchfighter

The guy from Cozy Beehive once again posts a very interesting post:

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... mbing.html

The consistentcy of the values strikes me the most.

frenchfighter

And another post from him analysing the Tourmalet stage:

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... ol-du.html

frenchfighter

The brilliant posts keep coming from thsi guy.

Check this one out about Vino which gives a good picture of his story:

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... ombah.html

DaveyL

frenchfighter wrote:

The guy from Cozy Beehive once again posts a very interesting post:

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... mbing.html

The consistentcy of the values strikes me the most.

Funny that, the 6.78 at Verbier is what strikes me the most.

Pokerface

DaveyL wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

The guy from Cozy Beehive once again posts a very interesting post:

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... mbing.html

The consistentcy of the values strikes me the most.

Funny that, the 6.78 at Verbier is what strikes me the most.

Isn't that beyond what is considered humanly possible without 'assistance'?

donrhummy

Fits with what I said before. Contador was not slower/weaker on the climbs. It's just that Andy improved.

takethehighroad

Pokerface wrote:

DaveyL wrote:

frenchfighter wrote:

The guy from Cozy Beehive once again posts a very interesting post:

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2010/07 ... mbing.html

The consistentcy of the values strikes me the most.

Funny that, the 6.78 at Verbier is what strikes me the most.

Isn't that beyond what is considered humanly possible without 'assistance'?

To be fair it was 100% effort pretty much all the way up

Steve2020

I don't think the Verbier figure is necessarily accurate:

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/07 ... o2max.html

donrhummy

Steve2020 wrote:

I don't think the Verbier figure is necessarily accurate:

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/07 ... o2max.html

This is a very important point:

First, you have to assume the level of efficiency. The more efficient the rider, the lower the oxygen consumption at any power output. So, Vayer may have assumed efficiency to be lower than the reality for Contador - short of measuring it, you'll never know.

Contador is likely to be very efficient. Not only has he been cycling at such a high level for a long time, but he has fantastic form on the bike. So not only is his "internal" efficiency amazing, but he also is likely to have less wasted effort than the average trained cyclist.