Giro Climbs – performances in pictures

with about as many

climbs

as

GC

abandons

makin slim Pickens

fer stuff to analyze

but here goes

first up the climbs

stg 14 does away with any intermezo n goes straight

Jafferau

uh punchy little helion uva 9.2% 654 vert m climb topping at

1908 meters altitude

good fer uh pVAM uv 1689 m/hour

while stg 15

the GC pianos the Cenis out uv relevance

before going

Telegraphe

7.16% 848 vert m climb at 1566 meter

pVAM 1596 m/hour

quick eat uh gel

n right back at it on

the into thin air

Galibier

6.52% 862 vert m reaching the pantani monument

at 2295 meters altitude

pVAM 1495 m/h

or stg 15 could be rightly considered

as one monster

TeleGalibier

6.8% 1710 vert m rising again to the 2295 meters uv altitude

with a bit uva a downhil breather

half way up

pVAM 1455 m/h

recalling fer uh bit that

high pVAMs mean steep short low altitude

low pVAM mean less steep longer higher altitude

…

right then

stage set

stg 14 had Santambrogio n Nibali going 1-2

with a positive residual of 0.64%

or just under 1 percent faster than the predicted VAM

they were followed by

Uran at -1.5% or 1.5% slower than pVAM

n

Cadel at with a similar -1.7%

with only Scarponi getting truly dropped

at -6%

with nibali finally going faster

than the predicted VAM

n favorites coming in 1s and 2s

this climb is the first real look at their

flat out climbing

rather than tactical cat n mouse

n overall

its

(yawn big stretch)

eh

…

the bigger question is what to make of stg 15

at first pass

over the telegraphe

the maglia rosa group put in a modest

-6%

while Gesink took off at a decent

-3.74%

after a short downhill

Gesink detonated on the Galibier

while the the maglia rosa

tempoed it in at

-6.25%

which might be plausible based on a general shit weather cease fire

or

that the two climbs ride more like one

with a little breather

and the maglia rosa group

put in a 0.01% or an actual performance

in line with the predicted

pushing Gesinks attack well into the unsustainable range

based on the select but not fully decimated group that went 0.01

it looks like more like the climb rides more like

Tele-Galibier*

or

“Tele-Galibier”

but with the presence of Scarponi

it would be awful generous to call it one climb

so yes interlaced

but still clearly separate for purposes uv

the pVAM model
…

now

in GC overal terms

what we’re left with is

whether by

abandons

weather

cleaner racers

or general grabassery

uh slow GT

notice that almost all the residuals

are negative

bars go down

slower than predicted

however yuh wanna think uv it

realy only Nibali and Santambrogio have gone

at GT winning pace

n

only on stage 14

Uran had one decent day on stg 10

n

that’s it

Evans

is still in the hunt

without putting in any GT winning performance

n

Scarponi

is hangin top 5

by default alone

which leaves us agreein

with the riders on one thing

lets hope this thing heats up uh bit