"The Battle for Sa Calobra" - How long can I ride at Tom Pidcock's KOM pace?
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
- There is no doubt, I loved tackling Sa Calobra again. Even more so when a champ like Tom Pidcock is the rider you have to chase down at the top of the Strava Leaderboard! So much fun and very inspiring!
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A follow up video taking all about my training leading up to this. I hope there are some things you can use in your own cycling :
❤How I climbed Sa Calobra in 24 minutes // The Training and Preparation
czcams.com/video/nCIqyZJOEqs/video.html
It would really mean a lot if we could make this video the most watched episode on the channel! 57k views to beat from the previous Sa Calobra video! Help me achieve that by sharing, liking, subbing and commenting below. TY :)
Brilliant effort Ed well done!. You should be proud!!. Thousands and thousands of people attempt this climb to be 2nd only behind a classic winning top professional is an incredible achievement!!.
Amazing Ed 🙌 This editing brought a tear to the eye 😢 You have a very humble, inclusive, approach to what you do that makes you a stand out ambassador for the sport 🙌 I reckon Tom would go for it with you together, as a collab, as seems so down to earth; obviously schedules aligning 🤞 Lets go #EdMode 🚀 And hope you both have an amazing vacation 💑
FANTASTIC! Bravo Ed 🤩. Thanks for the show, insight to the numbers and really great overlay to the effort.
Its great to see you set a new PR! Well done.
The suspense! 😅 Well done. Great personal record and some awesome footage. 👏
Congrats Ed, well done, you are flying, keep it up Bro!
Chapeau Ed. Fantastic effort and a great video.
Good warm up Ed. Now you're ready for the big effort 😊
Well done! Epic and really inspiring as usual. And that intro 👌
Well done Ed, fantastic effort 👏👏👏
Excellent effort. Excellent vid. My HR rose just watching it. Well done. Amazing. M
Loved it, especially the soundtrack
Ed you are The Man,well done☘️
Phwoahh!! Super work 💪🏻💪🏻
Fantastic effort Ed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The epitome of a happy cyclist! Great ride. 👏👏👏
Great Effort. You are very inspiring as a person and an athlete❤
Amazing effort, well done.
Great ride Ed well done, I know how that feels.
Phenomenal effort Ed well done the welsh were behind you.
Cracking PB up there. Respect 👏👏
Great video and effort mate
Great effort Ed, well done
Congratulations on this awesome effort.
Congrats for the fantastic result 👍👏
Great effort, congratulations! Now if you get the entire Ineos team give you a leadout up the climb you and Tom can have a true head-to-head comparison.
Brilliant Ed
Brilliant ride Ed 👏
Congrats!
splendid effort mate you are a super climber
Is my little island pretty or what? Great stuff, Ed, fantastic effort. Congrats.
aweseme, so much ed power!!
Wow congrats just amazing
Awesome performance mate 🙌🏽 congrats
Nice one Ed, fantastic PR 🎉
Mind blowing W/kg
Well done 👍👍
Well done mate
Well done bud you need to be proud happy for you cause you could beat your previous pb . 😊
Great effort! I love climbs, but as a 95 kg rider, you can imagine I'm slow. You're pushing almost double of my speed with same power. I gotta keep training to push more than now :)
Phenomenal effort & congrats on the PB, can't wait for the Ventoux vids, it's a different beast from Sa Calobra!
Well played Ed and kudos on getting a PB. Watching this has given me inspiration to try and beat my PB next week albeit 30 mins slower than yourself 🤣🚴👌👍
That's what I like to hear!!
Congratulations Ed, fantastic effort, rode it March 40 mins so 16 min quicker ! Wow! Superb graphics! All best next target 🎉👌🚴
16min!! EPIC!!
welll done Ed
Respect.
Great wffort ed!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Epic!! Awesome ride Ed, congrats mate.
May I know what program do you use to overlay power/cadence and all that info?
Thank you! Sure thing, goprotelemetryextractor.com/
extremely impressive, 6.4 is incredible
Wow nice vid
Da iawn boi👊🏼
Massive well done, fantastic effort!! How could you wait to download until you got back!?!? 😉I look forward to the "Directors Cut Extended Edition". Brilliant cinematography as well, love it.
Haha! Well, next up will be the full effort overlay with a deep dive in to the training leading up to it. Hopefully gain some people a few seconds themselves.
@@edlaverack Great to hear! Sa Calobra Part Deux (The Return!)
Amazing effort 💪💪. If I could get down to your 61kg, I might beat my pr of 44 mins... 😂
Back for vengeance!
My wife and her friends are cycling up it this weekend. I'll send it on for inspiration!
Haha! Love to hear it! Hope they enjoy it!
Like hearing from you from Mt ventoux! - En y va.
Great effort Ed, chapeau 👏🏻 If someone like you can’t beat Tom Pidcock’s time then unless a top pro goes for it the KOM will stand for a long long time. Anything you think you can do different next time (if there is a next time) to go sub 24:00?
I reckon a few could beat Tom but It would be awesome to see others try :) To go sub 24 I think I just need another 2years of chipping away, or a better weather day, if we are talking about me improving my time solo. At this level it is literally seconds of improvement.
Great video Ed #EdMode
Da Iawn Ed 👍
6.5 w/kg. Gulp. I have no words. I can't even imagine how that's possible. 😮
That's my top end 15 seconds sprint on Zwift.
woooow
Nice effort! I got a 4iiii power meter recently... Sometimes works perfectly... Sometime disconnects multiple times per minute. Have you had any issues?
I have. Firmware issues and tends to happen if I freewheel for a while. I stop sometimes and just pop the cap off and back on as a reset and away I go with no problems. Happens less and less. They are aware of it and working on it by all accounts👍🏼
Awesome! Will give that a try...Thank you!
Great video, too bad you didn't answer or even address the question in the title! I was waiting for you to scream up there at 400 W+ to massively explode halfway...
I didn’t need to. The answer is “of course not!”🙈But because of the speed Tom was doing up there the watts required are actually nuclear. We can make an educated guess that I’d last roughly half way (12min at 420w, 7wkg) and just about be still with Tom. But then I’d blow.
2017 efforts looks strange. You improved almost 50 seconds with less power and lower HR within a week? Strong improvement in 5 and 7 years. My PB is 38:01 from 2019. Look forward to your next attempt.
Those efforts back then were interval sessions on training camp so can't read too much in to them.
Bonkers
Imagine loosing the file of your ride/climb. Happened to me once😅 a painful memory
How many years did you try for such a number (ftp)?
6.4w/kg, amazing effort. I could probably do that climb at around 2.8w/kg 😅
You need ceramic speed botom bracket + ceramic speed chain and puleyhjuls then you saving around 20W+
quite sure you could make your bike and kit a bit more optimised for the segment, but that'd still be marginal, and probably wouldn't help to gain. Hats off to Tom he did his PB in Dec. Was or wasn't he paced up the hill I guess that's irrelevant to your personal PB. Great effort nevertheless!
It's funny when one wants to hit sub-30 on that climb, another person thinks of sub-24. haha!
Jonas could drop another minute on that KOM
That would be awesome to see tbf. It’s class to see the World Class riders go at their speeds, even though they have bigger fish to fry
Did Tom do his effort solo or was he paced by INEOS
He was paced by a scooter.
How much calories must one be on per day to be 61kg & pushing 384w ?
For 24min it's not a massive energy requirement. But if I was in a race and having to do that effort I would obviously need a lot more!!
I heard that Tom's effort had a team lead out? Does anybody know if that is true? Wouldn't that be a flagged ride?
Just echoing what I said above - I've heard all sorts of stories from the locals on the island, but at the end of the day these guys are training to hold on to the best climbers in the world. I'd argue if it was motorpaced/team paced then it's all part of training now to match the likes of Pog/Jonas.
He was riding behind a scooter. 100% confirmed by the numbers.
Go full lead out and moto draft just to see the difference!
Tom must of had some assistance.
I'll try that one day for the laughs!
Do we know if tom's effort was motorpaced? He has a history of doing these things :P Re Coll de rates
I've heard all sorts of stories from the locals on the island, but at the end of the day these guys are training to hold on to the best climbers in the world. I'd argue if it was motorpaced/team paced then it's all part of training now to match the likes of Pog/Jonas.
How long did he manage to ride at Tom pidcock? 😂
On Apple TV it doesn’t show me the whole title… hahah
If getting the KOM is that important, why not drive there, warm up on a turbo and hit it totally fresh. Riding for 2.5 hrs before even getting to Sa Colabra must surely put some fatigue into body even if taking it easy.
If I did that I wouldn't hear the end of it haha, everyone knows that riding there and then doing it is the unwritten rule!! The KOM isn't important, what is important is the PB :) Besides, 2.5hr at Z1 is very easy, performing an effort like this for me after a few hours like that is normal.
@@edlaverack Absolutely agree, it wouldn't be the done thing but you know better than most people that this happens all the time with people going for KOMs. Have to say when I rode Sa Colobra last year just getting there nearly wiped me out(!). However I'm a millions miles away from your level.
Love the videos btw.
@@stevedouglas3975 Thank you Steve. It's all a bit of fun at the end of the day, and damn good training at that.
I could probably do 23 Watts for 384 minutes.
First? 😄
You are!!
@@edlaverack Good job btw, I would arrived 23mins after you. 🤣
If you are doing Ventoux, make sure you pop by Pista in Bedoin for a coffee and food, JS and Kiki are brilliant there.
@@edlaverack If you are heading to Ventoux, drop by Pista Cafe in Bedoin as it is fab. JS and Kiki are lovely and the food/coffee are fantastic.
Power meter readings from Pidcock and you make zero sense. You did 0.15 w/kg more and gained only a handful of seconds and pidcock did 0.3 more than you and gained a minute and a half?! No way. Either his power meter is way under-reading, your's is way over-reading or Pidcock was motorpaced up the climb. Even with the wind in mind, his time is INSANE for the exact same wattage between you two.
Different calibrations, but a PB is a PB.
@@jono1457-qd9ft different calibrations should account for 1% difference not this nonsensical mess
He had the Ineos team leading him up the climb... There's the difference.
It's highly likely that the power meters read differently. I can only speak for the accuracy of mine over the years and my previous performances. Tom will be maybe 2kg lighter than me but chances are my bike is 0.5kg lighter. The time difference is massive considering the relative efforts, I can't see myself ever going that speed up that climb ever.
@@edlaverack that's the thing. If we start believing that power meters can read so completely wrong then idk man, what are we even using them for? I guess consistency is what really matters not absolute values but still... And Shimano meters have been known to exaggerate, not under-read which I assume is the case for pidcock. But difference is still too massive. I'm forced to assume he was paced
Why do so many CZcamsrs have the camera inches from their face? 😂
Because my arm gets tired when it's miles away!
@@edlaverack Train Harder 😂
The ride is cool, but you ramble way too much 😄
What would you rather see in a video like this? In my opinion we don’t hear enough chat and behind the scenes of things like this. It’s why the videos are quite unpolished.
How this climb could be a world most popular when a second fiddle like Pidcock beat the time of a nobody ?
I wouldn't say it's the world's most popular!
Second fiddle? The lad won on Alpe D' Huez, has been a world champ on the MTB. He still has time to develop. Everyone is comparing people to Pog which is ridiculous because there are still some incredibly talented guys out there. Winds me up to be honest.......