Poel Strava data from Amstel Gold race win

van der Poel will be riding for Quickstep next year. Betta blee dat!

That was one of the best finishes to a bike race that I can recall watching. Fuglsang and Alaphilippe have to be kicking themselves for their lack of effort over the last 2 km. I would love to see MVDP's last 2 km laid over those two's efforts.

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Van der Poel’s best 20-minute effort for the day was 378w (5.17w/kg) with a max power of 1,400w during his final sprint.

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Damn. I average around 110 watts over a 10 mile(roughly an hour) mountain bike ride, with being over 350w making up around 5% of that time. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to be able to put out that much power for that long. Incredible.

Unreal. Definitely not following him. don't want to see that in my feed

frickin incredible.

Let's just start here:

278W (average) for 6 hours and 26 minutes.
337W (weighted average) for 6 hours and 26 minutes.

For the last hour, he rode at 350W, chased down the break, went straight into unleashing a 1,400W sprint.

Mother. frick. That is nuts.

ETA: And over 6,400 kJ of energy expenditure. Holy shite. For the layperson, this means this dude burned around that many calories during that race. Typically, a well-trained athlete will have around 1,500 calories of glycogen available. He had to supplement with food, gels, sports-drinks, etc. throughout the race in a way to give his body the fuel to race that hard. That in itself is a chore for these guys!