Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. I'm excited because we have

Hannah Otto with us today. Hannah, competitive cyclists, she's racing for Scott Bikes, all the great

things. We're going to talk about your unbound. We're also going to talk about some questions that

we got on athletes about fatigue resistance, durability. We're going to talk about Leadville and

cadence. We're going to talk about keeping power on the flats versus the climbs. Lots of good stuff and even some bonus if we can get to it. But first things first, it's Tour de France week. If you're listening to this, I think you're one day away from the tour starting once this goes live. I'm doing podcast math, so it's probably really bad. But I want to go over some stats really quick, some fun stuff. And you can head over to our YouTube channel to check out a video that's going to visualize a lot of this for you. But the tour, it's 21 days, as always. There are two rest days, but there is something weird with that first rest day, which we'll go over in just a bit. It's 2,774 miles or 3,338 kilometers.

That's the same distance as L.A. to Atlanta here in the United States or Madrid to Moscow,

which is massive, puts it in perspective. They climb 172,000 feet or 172,24 feet or 52,500 meters. That's nearly six Everest. It's 5.9. So close. But here's

the funny thing. The first rest day isn't until after stage 10. Isn't that wild, Hannah? Like

10 days in a row. And then the sixth one. You're basically halfway there. Yeah, I know. You're

halfway through. And the second one is like it comes after just a five-day block.

But that five-day block has two mountain stages, and it also has an individual time trial sandwiched between those.

That's a hill climb time trial.

There's two time trials this year, no team time trial, just individual time trials. It's just going to be pretty interesting to see. And it's going to favor a rider like Remco, um, at least on the flat one, but we'll have to see if, if he gets the jersey at some point, that might be kind of tough for him. Uh, anyways, uh, I looked into a lot of data on this, uh, and I'm going to leave a lot of this data for the video that you need to go watch on our Instagram or YouTube channels.

If we're watching this on YouTube right now, it would really help. If you give it a thumbs up, then watch it through to the end. If you want to tune it out, just mute it, let it play. That will help YouTube send it to more cyclists. So, but most grand tour contenders that are actually going for the gc they averaged somewhere between point eight to point eight two i f for 23 hours uh for that week

and then if you do that by three weeks i think last year's time was 83 hours 38 minutes and something

seconds uh that's what todde did over the three weeks that's a wild thinking of three hours, 38 minutes and something seconds.

That's what Tadde did over the three weeks.

So that's a wild, thinking of like averaging 0.8IF, I know that there's this theory that like out there the tour is like largely kind of like fingers in the nose until it's not

with grand tours.

There's a lot of people that say that.

And some stages are easier.

And keep in mind, these are also like the GC contenders. So it's probably different than what a sprinter is going to see with their power data or an all-rounder or whatever it might be. But with all that in mind, that's pretty crazy. And an athlete like Tade, assuming like the numbers are correct, that would be 101,000 kilojoules. So you can go see the video and we share a bunch of different fun things about this, but I just want to share this.

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