Primož Roglič won another mountain top finish in Critérium du Dauphiné, increasing his lead in the GC. His teammates from Bora-Hansgrohe controlled everything in the leading group, with Aleksandr Vlasov pulling in the second half of the climb.
It was the second consecutive mountain day in Dauphiné with a hard finish up the steep Samoëns 1600 (9.9 km, 9.0%) climb. With multiple longer climbs included in the course, it would more fatigue before the final climb compared to yesterday’s ‘easier’ stage. Derek Gee before Samoëns 1600 spent 4,046 kilojoules for 4:05h which is 13.97 kj/kg/h. A long and hard day in the saddle.
Bora-Hansgrohe took the pacing duty on the last climb with Matteo Sobrero, Jai Hindley and Aleksandr Vlasov who were supporting the race leader Primož Roglič. Sepp Kuss, Jack Haig, Pavel Sivakov got dropped early in the first half as the climb was very steep. Remco Evenepoel had a worse day than yesterday and was struggling with 6 km to go, continuing the climb at his own pace. Vlasov was an incredibly strong domestique for Roglič, pacing the GC group until the finish for multiple kilometres and closed down Giulio Ciccone and Santiago Buitrago’s attacks. In the final kilometre, Oier Lazkano was still in the elite group of climbers and accelerated, but Matteo Jorgenson closed his attack. Roglič was patient all day and won the bunch sprint, increasing his lead in the overall classification.
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Roglič won with 6.25 ᵉW/Kg for 31:50 min on Samoëns 1600. Jorgenson, Ciccone, Lazkano and Gee all did 6.24 – 6.25 ᵉW/Kg. Lazkano with his northern classics rider body managed to stay with the group all the way, despite strong climbers such as Mikel Landa dropping early. Aleksandr Vlasov who pulled the most, lost 14 seconds to Roglič and pushed 6.29 ᵉW/Kg on the climb. Remco Evenepoel was dropped early and with 5.99 ᵉW/Kg lost 1:46 min to Roglič, sliding down to 6th position in the GC.
According to Gee’s strava with a race weight of 75 kg he did around 5,5 watt/kg. Why is there this discrepancy? Is he on shimano powereter and maths are more accurate?
With 5.5w/kg the group would be huge. Lazkano did way more watts and w/kg on his strava and is heavier
there’s no way Gee is 75kg
I see yea, the google weight are off by quite a bit some times. Some times they are close, as in the case of JV, PCS says his race weight is 58 kg which is pretty close. But i can say that Buitrago did 6,4 watt/kg according to his powermeter, he is 1 cm taller than me so i assumed we have around same race weight. That means if Gee needs a littlle lower W/kg due to his bike being a smaller amount of totalt systemt weight that he weighs in around 68 kg. Of course there is now a margin of +-2 kg because of powermeters and weight fluctuations. But 68 is not unrealistic due to teams mates being around the same. It’s my bad, i don’t know why i took 75 kg as the real deal when it seems unrealitsic.
But i back calculated Gee weight through the numbers listed in this article and Mr. Ozols used a weight of 71,5 kg of Gee, don’t know where that comes from.
Actually 66-667 kg is better, and O’Connor weight is listed at 66 kg being 1 cm lower than Gee. If Buitragos power meter and my weight of him is correct.
Another factor: this site doesn’t report the actual W/kg. It normalizes the W/kg to a standard rider weight. There’s a very reasonable explanation for this that is somewhere on the site – and I can’t find it.
Here it is. https://lanternerouge.com/2023/02/07/watts-primer/
gentlemen there is an etalon + drafting factor explained in another article on this website.