by Andrew Jamieson | Apr 6, 2022 | Cycle Racing, Cycling Sports Science, Tour de France
What Makes A Pro? We often forget the physiological make up of riders when we talk about sprinters, time trialists, “big diesels”, domestiques, climbers and roulers. Fundamentally though they are all very highly aerobically fit and these specializations...
by Andrew Jamieson | Nov 30, 2018 | Cycle Training
Old School Big Gear Training While this is a hot topic amongst coaches, big gear hill reps have been used for some time (see this article on Francesco Moser using big gear hill training for the hour record in 1984). About 7 minutes into this video you can see Moser...
by Andrew Jamieson | Nov 1, 2018 | Cycle Racing, Cycling Sports Science, Power in Races and Training, Tour de France
When Is A Watt Not A Watt? 7.04w/kg …or is it 5.78w/kg… Aside from the fact that the first of the two numbers above is a prediction (waste of time –see previous post) and the second is just given to us by Team Sky (no data was given, just a number that has...
by Andrew Jamieson | Oct 29, 2018 | Cycle Racing, Power in Races and Training, Tactics
Bunch vs Breakaway Efforts A Quick Look Breakaway Looking at a two man breakaway, you would likely see an average power around their aerobic threshold (2mmol level or L2 for Fitlab zones). Note this is not the higher effort of OBLA (previously referred to as Anaerobic...
