I just wanted to share. Because these numbers are insane after a 258 km race! And when doing most of the work the last 8 km.
800m at 831w for 49s at the end of a 258km race.
Talk about fatigue resistance.
Absolute insanity.
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Beast mode! I would love to see the last 10k or so. Must have been over 400w since he was pulling so much. Crazy strong
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Cadence is interesting
205% FTP.
DNA lottery winner.
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Must be that strychnine in pigeons
Cyclocross gives you some very specific abilities. 
Incredible. He dragged that whole group for so long, and then outsprinted everyone from the front
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https://www.strava.com/activities/2307958367
Pretty insane if you ask me…
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Love that Strava categorizes his relative effort as “historic”!
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What I’m always surprised by is the lack of time in Z4 and above heart rate zones. These guys can just live in Z1-3 for days and hardly dip into the higher zones.
6 hour race with almost 12k feet of elevation gain and only spending 47 min (12%) in Z4 heart rate…nuts.
So envious of that.
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Curious if he’s going to do XC racing too this year, but he’s got plenty of time to recover for the first event.
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Yeah I thought the same!
I did a 3 hour race past sunday and did almost 50/50 z3/z4 hr!
According to Strava segments he did “final loop AGR 2018”, @ 353w avg with most of the work in the second half of the segment.
Strava sprint segment 600m was 866w avg
Numerous articles are out about his plans
- starting mtb World Cup and worlds as stated goals this year
- (yesterday) National Team coach says he has a spot for road worlds if he wants it
- cx for 2020 season
- stated wants mtb gold at Tokyo
He could pull rainbows in road, cx, and xc ala Pauline Pervot if he goes nutso
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Did you notice that someone has flagged the Strava entry? What is up with that?
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A: there’s a lotta dicks on Strava.
That was the average. His ‘lead out’ was most of that; his actual sprint was only 15s or something like that.
The crazy part is that for the last ~5% he isn’t pedalling, just coasting, no power…so his output is even greater!
Probably Alaphilippe flagged it 
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