As a reminder! PMA is a much more difficult value to raise on
high-level and already well-trained athletes (see my analysis of T.Pinot’s power
profile ).
Coming back to the Haute Route we can find
below the evolution of Loic’s performances on 20 min watts Peak load avg! 30 min watts
avg and 60 min watts avg NP over the 3 weeks of racing. We Peak load see that the first week of the Pyrenees was the most intense and the most difficult of the.
3 for him. He still always managed his efforts with in mind the
3 weeks of Haute Route that he had to finish. There is no doubt that he had the
ability to win the first week. The first in the ranking who had a big
failure on the last day! owes his
victory thanks to an alliance with a Kenyan job function email database team but did not hold the
shock over 7 full days!
CP power 20/30/60 over 3 weeks.
We can therefore see that to play for victory you have to be
able to maintain cp30 min around 5.5/5.6 w/kg with days of 4 to 5 hours in the Peak load saddle (average IF 0.8) all week! the level was
very high for a cyclosportive.
The second week in the Alps was more complicated! the
fatigue of the first week was not erased and the performances
were affected with a loss of 20 watts at all levels. If we take the
TSS load graph in red we see the surge of the latter from
August 15 and the plunge of the yellow TSB fatigue…
Evolution of load (red) and fatigue in yellow
He didn’t try to
play the general classification! helping his team from La Toussuire this
time! and this allowed him to
regain some freshness for the 3rd hashtag what are they for and how do they work? week. In the Dolomites!
despite very difficult conditions Peak load (snow! cold! summit at 2000mD+ very
often)! his power went up a notch! even finishing close to his
starting level! 3 weeks earlier. We can also superimpose
the TSB fatigue in yellow with the previous graph with the power peaks. We can clearly see that after having dropped significantly! the
residual fatigue stabilized in the 2nd
week and began to rise again in the
Dolomites. As a result! his power followed! and that’s why he be numbers was better at the
end. We can thus see the full power of the TSS load concept! derived from
the standardized power of power meters for season management.
Finally! he won the last week and also the
general classification over the 3 weeks.