With 10 years (almost as 2016 is missing) of Tour de France finishing climbs on the spread sheets, it seemed time to have a look back and see if there was an interesting trend. First to normalize the performance I used the Martin model assuming a Froome size rider of 67 kg and about 50% …
Category: Power Estimate Modelling
Comparing Performances Across Grand Tours
One of the fun parts about modelling climbing performances in Grand Tours is the ability to make historical and virtual head to head comparisons. In the figure above the grey dots are the average performance of the top 3 finishers from each Grand Tour for each finishing climb from 2008 – 2013. Overlayed on this …
Intro to Power Estimate Modelling
It’s just physics, but it’s so much more. The original description of a complete mathematical model for estimating cycling power output has to go to Martin. But it was Antoine Vayer’s snarling bulldog sound bites and his collaboration with Fred Portoleau on Not Normal Doping that brought the power estimates and the debate over what the numbers …