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BBC News - Tour de France: Are drug-free cyclists slower?
Tour de France - 2012
This years Tour was 3497 km, over 22 days including 2 rest days. The first article analyzes some data that was released by one rider for one days ride, or part of one day. His output was 320-322 watts in climbs, then a final climb of 360 watts. For this rider, this latter amounts to 5.6 watts/kg bodyweight.
I am awestruck by this degree of endurance and power. Some observers also think that more riders are likely clean than before, and that outputs in the previous decade were greater, and that we may be nearer to seeing actual human potential rather than drugged human potential. Other observers doubt that drugs are gone, only that perhaps riders have dialed back usage to try to escape detection.
As an health exerciser in (late) middle age, I am blown away to try to understand this.
Ha
Tour de France - 2012
This years Tour was 3497 km, over 22 days including 2 rest days. The first article analyzes some data that was released by one rider for one days ride, or part of one day. His output was 320-322 watts in climbs, then a final climb of 360 watts. For this rider, this latter amounts to 5.6 watts/kg bodyweight.
I am awestruck by this degree of endurance and power. Some observers also think that more riders are likely clean than before, and that outputs in the previous decade were greater, and that we may be nearer to seeing actual human potential rather than drugged human potential. Other observers doubt that drugs are gone, only that perhaps riders have dialed back usage to try to escape detection.
As an health exerciser in (late) middle age, I am blown away to try to understand this.
Ha