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pVAMing the TDF build up Dauphine stage 5

By veloclinic · On June 7, 2013

fast

both the pVAM residuals n Vetoo’s CPL show

riders put up sum big numbers

in the first TDF tune up climb

first the climb

stg 5 Valmorel

vClimb 886 meters at 6.96% percent grade

topping out at 1369 m

good for a

pVAM uv 1599 m/hr

while the winning ride came in faster

aVAM 1634 m/h

from the contenders

Froome puts in a blazing 2.2% faster than predicted

followed closely by Contador 2.1 %

Valverde Rogers Moreno Taaramae

going 1.7 – 1.6 % faster than predicted

even Porte job done still comes in 1% faster than predicted

and the “cracked” Dennis grinding the big ring

painfully

to a still very respectable -1%

while the other TDF hopefuls

Talansky -9%
Rolland -11%
Rodriguez -12.5%
Van Den Broeck -22%

have sum work cut out

cross checking against the power estimates

Vetoo’s work on the CPL

(with the caveat uv drafting till 1.3km to go)

Froome put a shot across all bows

6.18 w/kg

(for over 30 min ?

, uh yeah)

(more w/kg to come as Vetoo flogs his machine)

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