TRIATHLON BICYCLING II

Where are we regarding triathlon and cycling?  Frodeno and Vidal mentioned that they averaged pedaling 350 watts per 40k at different races (Frodeno in Kitzbuhel and Vidal in Madrid), none of them are in the front pulling the peloton.  But as Macca and Jordan Rapp (both ironman competitors who tried Olympic distance recently) said, paraphrasing: “it does not matter the average but the peaks they have during the race that goes up to 900 watts for a few seconds.”  The peaks are something that we experienced as a team in Veracruz this past week.  The only ones that followed Arturo Garza were the ones that were able to increase to above 900 watts when turning a U.

Let´s take the following from Coggan´s book.

 

Taking the above example, our competitors are trained to be in a peloton. Being in the peloton is similar in required abilities to a criterium race for somebody competing in a triathlon Olympic format.  This competitor with such abilities is also called all-rounder competitor by Coggan.  Yes, we need a all-rounder cyclist for triathlon at a competitive level. Please read, 27 août 2012 Triathlon Bicycling .  We need to train for that purpose if we want to be in the peloton.