by Andrew Jamieson | Jul 20, 2014 | Cycle Training, Power in Races and Training, Tour de France
Ok, so a lot of action in the mountains over the pst two days. Nibali is just on another level to the rest. It would have been great to see him against Froome and Contador. They are all quite similar riders who like to intersperse steady long climbing efforts with...
by Andrew Jamieson | Jul 18, 2014 | Cycle Racing, Tactics, Tour de France
Another great rolling day with a break going early…the tactical genius of the day was from Europcar. Awesome Europcar Tactics Europcar put two men on the front at about 40km to go to reduce the break’s lead. At about the 33km mark with their two guys still...
by Andrew Jamieson | Jul 17, 2014 | Power in Races and Training, Tour de France
…the two Tonys feature again! This time Tony Martin sets up Michal Kwiatkowski for the end of the stage and Tony Gallopin shows everyone how it’s done. Gallopin has such great technique and position on the bike when going solo (in contrast to say…the...
by Andrew Jamieson | Jul 14, 2014 | Cycle Training, Power in Races and Training, Tour de France
The race of the two Tonys… Interesting scenario today with 2 men off the front, followed by a large group chasing, then the bunch. Having such a hilly course tends to negate the benefit of riding in the group to some degree – less time utilizing the...
by Andrew Jamieson | Jul 13, 2014 | Power in Races and Training, Tour de France
Another long breakaway, but this time it sticks! At least for one rider. This may well be the biggest time gap we see for a break this year since the move consisted of some very strong riders. Unfortunately all the coverage seems to start once the stage has been...
