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7 months ago
Powers is always full of excuses for not winning, altitude, mud, new team, new bikes, wrong bike. When he wins he's good, when he loses it not because they are better it because he had issues. |
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8 months ago
Thanks, Colt. I was there Sat, not Sun, and thought maybe it was still gooky on Sun, but clearly not as your post says. Hmm...adds something to the JPOW "not so good in mud" detractors? Or a case of dosing out the energy. Perhaps more the latter. |
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8 months ago
check out the race videos from day 1 and 2. It might as well have been different planets. Saturday was 37* with a driving wind/rain and mud. Sunday was 65* and sunny, hard packed and fast. Saturday he went too hard too soon and paid for it in the later stages. Sunday he was more conservative early and timed his big effort just right to hold on. It's much harder to recover from those efforts at altitude. |
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8 months ago
Or could it be the mud was different on day 2? Anyone there on both days who can comment on the mud? |
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8 months ago
Totally agree about Jeremy's comment that there are so many factors involved in bike racing success. Interesting he talks a lot about altitude, then he goes on to win day 2 -- justifies the many factors point. |
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8 months ago
Hey, where can I get one of those cool hats J-Pow is wearing? Those are sweet. |
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8 months ago
sorry guys but 3500ft is not altitude, Any study will show you that performance doesn't really start to decrease until you are over 6000ft. |
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8 months ago
And Bend is at 3600 ft. |
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8 months ago
Funny to watch the interview with Ryan before this where he shrugs off the altitude advantage... and JP here is on opposite page. But trebon tweeted last week about training at altitude as prep |
