My highest is Unless, of course, there is another rider in my peripheral. With an average speed of 14mph, no serious cyclist is going to be on your wheel. They are going to leave you in the dust…. Can anyone please tell us what the approximate number of pedals each leg were per kilometer for Chris Froome and the group who completed the TdF? We are trying to get an estimate of the number of pedals per leg for the full 3. Eg if the pedals per km was, say, 1. We cannot believe there is any accurate record of the actual figures.
Thank you. Simple math can give you that. From that and the distance, along with all the other data — you can basically extrapolate F1 type numbers on the power, wattage, gearing, etc. Heck, I am super amatuer and have a garmin bike computer with more data than I know what to do with. Sign me up to get new articles via email!
A pro climber will probably average about to watts on the climb up the Col du Tourmalet. A General Classification contender like Vincenzo Nibali might have two or three of each.
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Tim de Waele Getty Images. At its close, the riders in the Tour de France will have covered 3, kilometres 2, miles — not including the riding they do on the two rest days. Put plainly, if you were to get in a car in New York and head west, that'd get you as far as Salt Lake City. If you were to get onto a plane in London, you could get to Paris and back again five times and if you were in Australia you'd make it from Melbourne right over to Perth on the coast of Western Australia.
Throughout this distance, riders face a whole host of climbs, from small hills to enormous mountain passes. This year, a double ascent of Mont Ventoux faced riders on stage 11 on a day that saw riders tackle over 4, metres of vertical ascent in kilometres of riding.
In addition, while it's easy and obvious to focus on the difficulty of going uphill, there's a level of difficulty involved in coming down the other side too. For us average Janes and Joes, coming downhill might seem like the easy part — you can often stop pedalling and simply let gravity do the work — but let's not forget these riders are in a race so will be sprinting out of corners and pushing the limits of physics to go as quickly as possible, which in itself takes an enormous amount of mental energy and focus.
It is hard to begin to imagine the amount of focus this needs and the cognitive load it creates. The Tour de France is ridden by the world's best road cyclists, all of whom are full-time professionals that ride for around 30 to 40 hours per week.
But wait, before you quit your nine to five job and start cycling all day, know that these riders aren't just riding their bike for fun, they are completing highly tailored structured training programs designed by some of the best physiologists and coaches in the world. Sadly, even with that knowledge at our disposal, most of us still couldn't quit the day job, because professional cyclists are also blessed with the right mix of genetic potential that enables them to respond to such a high training stimulus and recover quickly enough to go again the next day.
To try and quantify this, we reached out to TrainerRoad — a popular training-based indoor cycling app turned all-around training platform that boasts a dataset of over a million users — to get a sense of the amount of structured training that the 'average' cyclist tackles.
According to TrainerRoad's data, an average 'beginner cyclist' performs 3. While 'experienced cyclists' perform 6. What this means is that your average beginner is performing just 10 per cent of the training hours of a Tour de France cyclist. To complete the Tour de France, you cannot simply commit to finishing the route, you'll need to do so within the constraints of a time cut on each stage. According to rule 2.
So in layman's terms, the organisers will decide the time cut based on the difficulty of the stage. We won't go into the details of how they then calculate it, but depending on the difficulty of the stage and the pace of the fastest rider, it will usually be the winner's time plus anything between four and 18 per cent. It has been a hotly discussed topic this year, with sprinter Mark Cavendish fighting on every mountain stage, and Nic Dlamini famously continuing to the finish on stage 9 after a crash despite missing the time cut by an hour and a half.
This essentially means that to complete the Tour de France, you need to not only finish the route, you need to be able to do so within a percentage of the winner's time, which leads us nicely onto speed. In trying to work out how hard the Tour de France actually is, you will need to know what speed you'll need to be able to ride at in order to keep up. Combining every edition of the Tour since , the average pace of the winner has been Anyone who has ridden a local time trial will know that it's difficult to maintain this pace for 10 miles, let alone the plus miles covered in the Tour.
However, of course, anyone who's ridden in a group will also know that there's an enormous benefit from being in the draft. That is until the road points up and gravity does its best to slow you down. This climb took O'Connor 1 hour and 12 minutes, during which he rode at an average speed of 26kph But even if you're not vying for a win, and you're simply trying to make it to the finish line within the time cut, you'll still need to maintain a very high pace.
With that, Kluge still maintained an average speed of A commonly used and widely understood assessment of a rider's ability is FTP, or Functional Threshold Power, which is said to be the maximum amount of power that a rider can sustain for an hour. It is often tested with a sustained minute effort, with the average power from this effort multiplied by 0. Measured in watts, this can be quoted in an absolute figure, or in 'watts per kilogram' where the absolute figure is divided by the rider's weight.
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