UAE Emirates’ star climbing duo Adam Yates and Joao Almeida again performed in Tour de Suisse stage 5, pushing very high watts on the mighty Carì climb.
Carì (11.59 km, 8.05%) was suited for strong pure climbers like Adam Yates. The race started extremely hard, with two threshold efforts on early climbs. The GC group pushed 6.15 ᵉW/Kg for 16 min on Altanca and 6.10 ᵉW/Kg for 25 min on Carì — the finish climb from a different side. The valley was easy and slow with riders recovering after a tough start. Before the final climb, Oscar Onley spent 2,593 kilojoules for 3:22h with 13.53 kj/kg/h.
Matthew Riccitello and Matteo Badilatti attacked early in the climb, but both got caught. INEOS were pacing, and the group was around 20 men deep when Brandon Rivera was riding at the front. UAE took over with Isaac Del Toro and Joao Almeida riding full gas, reducing the group and making Mattias Skjelmose and others drop. Almeida was looking strong and only his teammate and race leader Adam Yates, Egan Bernal, Enric Mas and Matthew Riccitello could keep up in the draft. Riccitello had a performance of his career as he wasted some energy with an early attack but made the elite group.
Yates attacked late on the climb, with Bernal and Mas trying to follow him but dropping after some time. Almeida who was riding at his tempo caught Bernal and Mas and in the end was not far from his Yates, losing only 6 seconds after pulling for multiple kilometres. British duo Oscar Onley and Tom Pidcock lost 54 seconds, while Skjelmose after a great day on Gotthardpass lost almost 1:41 min.
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Joao Almeida was the hero of the day with 6.51 ᵉW/Kg for 31:47 min as he was pulling the leading group for 6 km. It was probably the best Almeida performance we have seen so far. Adam Yates pushed 6.46 ᵉW/Kg for 31:42 min. Mas, Bernal and Riccitello all did their best or one of the best performances of career with 6.35 – 6.37 ᵉW/Kg. Even Pidcock and Onley who finished 54 seconds after Yates where, doing great for their standards with 6.25 ᵉW/Kg.
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Oscar onleys strava says he did 360 for the 30min climb, which is around 5.8/5.9 w/kg how’s that work
Couple possible explanations. One is that the w/kg listed above is normalized for a 60 kg rider. Onley’s PCS puts him at 62 kg and he may be slightly above that IRL. The etalon w/kg will be higher for riders above 60 kg and lower for riders below 60 kg. That can explain part of the difference.
Another is that this is an estimated performance. There may be factors not accounted for in these calculations, such as wind that didn’t show up in weather reports, or a different rolling resistance on the road surface.
Finally, Onley’s data could be wrong. His PM could be reading low. As long as it’s internally consistent, he doesn’t care. Alternately, since the data is public, it might be manipulated to make it appear that Onley has fewer watts than he actually does. There’s a reason few pros post power data to Strava.
1. The difference between a 62vs60 kg riders in e w/kg calculations is almost nothing, we’re taking 0.02 w/kg at this gradient not 0.5
2. Very few pros have under-reading power meters and even fewer just leave them unfixed like that
3. There is literally no way a pro riders going through the effort or making his power read 30w lower so he can post it to “avoid suspicion” or whatever, the simple answer is the estimations are over estimating due to wind drafting or whatever
What are each trend line again? I can never remember. Great content, thank you!
Pink – Top 30 All Time
Red – Generational
Yellow – Grand Tour Winner
Green – Top 10 Grand Tour
But they were named before Remco Evenepoel in 2022 started to smash Generational trendline in San Sebastian and La Vuelta. In reality those levels should be moved higher by one. Generational now would become the pink trendline, red now would be Grand tour’s winner etc