Tour de France stage one was easy!

Dippydog2
Dippydog2 Posts: 291
edited July 2014 in Road general
Looking at the pros on Strava it seems to me they had an easy time! :D

For example http://www.strava.com/activities/162051441/heartrate

I know they are fitter and faster, but effort and pain is surely relative to your own fitness. I get more points in the red and higher suffer scores on nearly all my rides!

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  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    I was pushing a 53 x 11 and getting dropped......
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,317
    Well, watching it on TV I had the impression nobody wanted to race until the last 20 Km. You can pretty much delete the all stage and tune in just in time for Cancellara's attack, the only notable point in the stage, together with Cavendish spectacular crash.

    Frankly, for the viewers a complete waste of time
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  • Miles253
    Miles253 Posts: 535
    Yeah, fairly boring stage for me, until the very end. Stage two so far, seems more interesting
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  • rickeverett
    rickeverett Posts: 988
    Stage 2 tested them today. Some were pretty pooped - CF even said "it was tough"!


    Suppose it was the 7th in Elevation gain and 5th longest route....

    (UK)
    Stage 1 - 190.5km Distance 2801m elevation gain
    Stage 2 - 201km 4061m
    Stage 3 - 155km 1315m

    (FRANCE)
    Stage 4 - 163.5 1618m
    Stage 5 - 155.5km 874m
    Stage 6 - 194km 1699m
    Stage 7 - 234.5 2405m
    Stage 8 - 161km 2468m
    Stage 9 - 170km 4127m
    Stage 10 - 161.5km 4440m
    Stage 11 - 187.5km 3206m
    Stage 12 - 185.5km 3164m
    Stage 13 - 197.5km 4769m
    Stage 14 - 177km 5662m
    Stage 15 - 222km 2126m
    Stage 16 - 237.5km 4715m
    Stage 17 - 124.5m 3920m
    Stage 18 - 145.5km 4506m
    Stage 19 - 208.5km 2031m
    Stage 20 - 54km 721m
    Stage 21 - 137.5km 2175m
  • Dippydog2
    Dippydog2 Posts: 291
    Yeah,yeah,yeah, but I am not convinced.

    How much time you spend close to your maximum heart rate is the only true measure of how hard you tried (not what you achieved). I take nothing from their power, fitness, tactics, etc. but at the end of the day I am sure that most people on here work harder on their training runs than we have seen so far on the Tour.

    The stages have to be long to weed out the weakest but it seems there are a significant number who goof off for four hours and then do a bit of work in the last hour.

    I like the scenery, the spectacle etc, but I think I prefer seeing the effort put into the time trials. The riders seems to be on their last breath as they cross the line. That's the way it should be.
  • dilatory
    dilatory Posts: 565
    There's a load of Strava junkies crying themselves to sleep in Yorkshire at the moment.

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