Alpe d'Huez

and i wanted to gift this experience to young people that would never get these opportunities to come to these places and and next year we've got the we got the the trail running side of it so we're still going to work with all of these kids and we're going to mentor coach them and also we've created a community residential arm of the program where kids that aren't ready to take that step to take part in a race, because they might find it intimidating, we're going to take them out to the Alps for residentials.

So they're going to come out to Chamonix, to Alpe d'Huez.

We've got a group in February going to the Pyrenees, just outside near Girona, near Lake Bagnoles.

So we're going to take a group there from South London, and it's to take them kids out to the Alps and the mountains that don't or aren't ready to take part in running races.

And then I was completely hooked.

And I think within three, four months of starting, it was probably January 2018, four months later, I was riding up Alpe d'Huez.

um, on a work trip, and, you know, shaved my legs, and wrote up Alpe d'Huez, and thought, that's it, I'm, I'm all in, and then I looked around at some other, you know, online coaching, etc., and, um, played around a bit with TrainerRoad, some early structure, but then towards 20, end of 2018, I thought I'd really like to, I saw other people around me getting coached, and getting great results, and I thought, I've got to get into this, and get coached, so, Actually, I was at, there's an event here called the Touramarta River, which is a three-day stage race we have every year, probably the biggest amateur stage race in WA.

I was actually down there and I was Googling coaching services and came across Tribelida.

And there was a free cheat sheet, I think you called it, five tips, I think it was, to better racing.

is very, very shocking that we can't mention a single Grand Tour stage outside of maybe Alto Daitana in this.

Alpe d'Huez was it? No, Alpe d'Huez.

Because you also had Best Beef, Lenny Martinez and Carapaz, and Koos, and then Poggi breaking the record.

I thought it was pretty exciting.

You managed it for just under a minute, I think, didn't you? Ollie won that little battle with just over two minutes.

Why were we doing it? Because that power to weight, seven watts per kilo, is reportedly what Pogacar held for 35 minutes this year when he set the record time up Alpe d'Huez at the Tour de France.

Ezra Bateman, at 16 years of age, just produced the same power to weight for around 40% of that duration.

Now, there's a big difference between 14 and a half minutes and 35 minutes.

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Teddy Pojakar shaved over a minute off Marco Pantani's mythical Alpe d'Huez record.

Back in that time, Pantani was climbing on 20-millimeter narrow tubulars pumped up to 150 PSI, while TED-A is on 28-millimeter tubeless rubber at 65.

Quantitatively, how much time and wattage did tire casing width and rolling resistance contribute to TED-A's taking down the record? And holistically, how much does modern equipment, 120 grams an hour fueling, and team pacing allow a clean rider to outclimb a heavily EPO-fueled 90s icon.

Just something as simple as the bladed spoke.

That is measurable as 15 to 20 seconds of gain.

even on a climb like the Alpe d'Huez, right? The carbon wheels, the more aero frames.

And we see the guys are – you know, 6.8 kind of helps with that, that the guys can choose aero because the bike weight is the same.