Contador. 458w. 62kg

[lukefreeman]

Contador has released some figures on the internet, and for a 20 minute test he did 458w.

This means his w/kg is 7.3. Which is out of this world.


Something doesn't add up here though.............................

[Scabutz]

Banned for drugs, posts barely believable power figures

[anonymous-user]

More than I can do.

[nacnac]

Nothing to see here... an "amateur" rider knocking out similar numbers no problem.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1534329918/overv...

If you can't be bothered to click the link: 408W / 15 mins at around 58kg if his Strava images are to be believed.

[lukefreeman]

nacnac said:

Nothing to see here... an "amateur" rider knocking out similar numbers no problem.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1534329918/overv...

If you can't be bothered to click the link: 408W / 15 mins at around 58kg if his Strava images are to be believed.

Must be using a Stages.

Froome is 68kg, and 420w for reference.............if you believe the interwebs

[nacnac]

lukefreeman said:

Must be using a Stages.

Froome is 68kg, and 420w for reference.............if you believe the interwebs

He's using a Quarq, I guess it's hard to convey irony in text to me 7+ w/kg for any decent length of time seems crazy high and for a non-top rank pro quite suspect.

I'm guessing the 420w means his FTP as for 15/20 mins that looks low. Wasn't there some BBC / Giro data released suggesting he was doing 440w + for sustained periods in stage 19?

[lukefreeman]

nacnac said:

He's using a Quarq, I guess it's hard to convey irony in text to me 7+ w/kg for any decent length of time seems crazy high and for a non-top rank pro quite suspect.

I'm guessing the 420w means his FTP as for 15/20 mins that looks low. Wasn't there some BBC / Giro data released suggesting he was doing 440w + for sustained periods in stage 19?

7w/kg is what lance measured at the peak of doping.

Anyone over 6w/kg is suspect in my opinion.

[paulrockliffe]

Froome's weight up there must include the bike!

[okgo]

Anyone decent as a world tour climber fresh will be doing over 6 w/kg for 20 mins. End of the tour its a different story of course.

460W sounds like a lot for 20 mins to me. Considering he got shown the bin many times by CF. Froome did 410W up the 60 min climb in the Giro, his fresh numbers will be far higher. In fact it said in his book he did 460W up Madone for half an hour.

[Fletch79]

Reading between the lines of his post ... This was back in one of the years he won the TdF (2007 & 2009 i think)
And its an SRM head unit in the photo ...

Plus it would be an FTP of 435 because it was a 20min test
The photo of the scales show 61.6kg so 7.06w/kg

Edited by Fletch79 on Friday 13th July 01:04