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Thursday
Jul312008

2008 Tour de France: Review of Adam Hansen's SRM Data

Here is a nice little re-cap of Adam Hansen's Tour De France data from his SRM power meter. I thought I would put together some interesting stats for all those power hungry cyclists out there!

Once again a big thanks must go out to Adam Hansen, SRM and team Columbia for providing such a unique view into the world of a Tour de France rider. If you haven't already, be sure to check out all of Adam Hansen's SRM stage files from this year's Tour de France. Download your favorite stage, or the whole Tour and analyze to your heart's content.

Functional Threshold Power – 418watts

Hardest Stage: Stage 17- Alp d huez- 392 TSS

Easiest Stage: Stage 21- Paris 172 TSS

Highest Five Second power: Stage 11- 1211 watts

Highest Twenty Minute Power: Stage 7 - 419 watts

Highest Sixty Minute Normalized Power: Stage 8 411 watts



Longest Climb and Avg. Normalized Power for climb: Stage 16- Cime de la Bonnette-Restefond , 308 watts

Average Heart Rate for entire Tour: 125bpm

Average Normalized Power for entire Tour: 313 watts

Total Training Stress Score for Tour: 5687 TSS

Most negative TSB for the TDF: July 15, -117 TSB

CTL at end of TDF: 168 TSS/d

Highest ATL: July 14, - 259 TSS/d

Total time: 96 hours of racing!

Time spent NOT pedaling: 17hours, 39 minutes.

Time Spent in Threshold zone: 12 hours, 21 minutes

Time Spent in Active Recovery Zone: 39 hours, 1 minute.



Average speed: 21.7 mph

Average Cadence including zero cadence: 71rpm

Peak 20 minute Heart rate in First Stage: 174bpm

Peak 20 minute Heart rate in last Stage: 147bpm

Enjoy!
Hunter Allen

Reader Comments (4)

What was total kJ?

July 31, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKen Norton

Where can I buy that engine?

July 31, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterHenry Hayes

His 'Active recovery' zone is probably my 'Sub-Threshold'...

January 1, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAlex Taylor

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