What I Learned From The Hardest Race I’ve Ever Done | The GCN Tech Show Ep. 296
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- Tour Des Stations, the hardest ride Ollie has ever done! In this week's GCN Tech show we ask Ollie all about his 1000km race, did he have any pain? What food did he eat? And what did he learn? We also discuss current tech news and announce the winner of the DMT shoes giveaway!
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Ollie’s Tour Des Stations race
11:21 - Hot tech - DMT Shoes competition winner!
16:57 - Snacks of the week
19:10 - Comments of the week
23:26 - Bike Vault
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Ollie mentions his fit for the Ultra and not adjusting it for the ride. How long does it take for yall to set up a new personal bike? I know you probably have yalls numbers already saved but if you set the bike up the same as your previous bike, do you have to make small adjustments to it to get it spot on again? Do you have to ride it several times to fine tune the new fit?
That's 1000km... what about bathroom breaks?
What time did you spend in your hr/power zones?
Was your entry fee comped by the organizers? And how much of the event were you following the camera bike or being paced by the crew van?
Wet wipe disco moves from Olie, very off putting. 😮
Week 24 of asking for a ‘The UCI has no jurisdiction here’ T-shirt
I'd buy it
👕👕👕👕👕👕
I'd be happy with the sticker he has on his laptop.
How about "The UCI has jurisdiction everywhere that it matters" t-shirt 😂
The UCI won't allow the licenses to use the logo or likeness of it because it poses a negative towards the organization if it was used in the manor described in the shirt . It won't happen unless they want major lawsuits
If only GCN had a book with tips on undertaking a long distance ride. Maybe they could call it Endurance and have Mark Beaumont write it. There may even be tips on how to train your neck muscles for such a ride.
Alakazam!!!🪄 gcn.eu/9nZ
Lol. But in my opinion, finding stuff out yourself feels more rewarding and satisfying than listening to what the experts say beforehand.
what voodoo is this? :D @@gcntech
Tri bars for long rides? Duh! If only GCN had a Scottish round the world record holder, who said he uses TT bars for comfort in a GCN video...
GCN should field a team ride of the Race Across America! Ollie, Si, Conner and Hank- I think you guys could win, and it would make a great GCN Plus film!
Mark Beaumont was going to do it in a 2 man team and go for the record. HOWEVER, the Wuhan virus put an end to that.
+1000000000
I just completed the Paris Brest Paris Brevet (1200 km) with about 8000 other participants.
Yes to aerobars. They save your hands from going numb and you sit differently.
You train your neck by riding on the bars often and some strength training.
I also had some rice pudding and loved it.
These events can grow on you, as you tend to forget the suffering and remember the hits of dopamine. Takes a while to forget the pain though. 😊
Also did PBP. Ankles still swollen.
Curious if you checked your weight before and after, how long until you were recovered fully, how long did you sleep when you were finally done, etc
His nervous system and immune system will be so compromised by such a dumb challenge.
I'm absolutely loving the editing of this video when Ollie's wet wiping moves are turned into a disco dance - laugh out loud 😂. Does Ollie know that you did this to him? Hilarious!
Ollie is always down to disco! 🕺
"I'm still learning shapes..." genuine LOL, I'm cracking up here 🤣🤣
Would love to see a post race conversation with Ollie and Mark. Maybe a voice over conversation where the two of them watch and discuss the original, more raw, in the moment moments captured in the original race recap video.
This would be great over the long-form video that they (promised to) release on GCN+
If I was offered a 100k to finish a 1000k ride I would definitely do it 4 times per year as a hobby 😂
Long endurance races of any kind are extremely challenging. Well done Ollie!
I was questioning while I was watching your 1000k video.
"why he using that aggressive positioned bike, when could go more relaxed one".
And you mentioned your exact reasoning! If you change your position in hurry to be more relaxed and it starting to hurt in the middle of race,(which always the case regardless of fit) then you'd cracked and questioning your position.
that's very interesting and relatable point!
The post production team having a great time.
now that you mention it , trascontinetal has finish a week a go , no mention of it no reportage ,
Ollie you are legend !! Thanks for taking all of us on your amazing racing adventure, many years ago I drove many of the roads you were on and I can’t even imagine being on a bike on Furka pass. I can’t wait to see the full video when it comes out, riding and also documenting at the same time 🤪
Lot of love for Alex's tough cookie joke. Strong!
Completely agree with your comment regarding TT bars. It provides one more alternative position, for long duration rides. Being aero is a plus, but not necessarily the point. It’s about comfort.
So much respect for Ollie ...gone from being dropped to a complete hero
great job ollie! I was thinking while watching that video that you would have probably had less issue on one of your bikes instead of one set aside for you. nothing beats your own stuff.
Thanks Ollie for doing a post-ride analysis on your TdS. I'd love to see a video on how you have approached Recovery from an extreme event like that.
Necks can get sore from short rides too, when i did an hour on my local track (with 47⁰ banking) my neck got tired from my head weighing 2x as much for half the distance.
Correct seat position after bike fit would make body weight to be less on a handlebar and more on saddle, so your hands would hurt less, but it also means that maybe other part will hurt eventually
Ollie cyclist of the month of August 2023. Well done sir. Guys you at GCN make cycling more enjoyable and informative.
Alex is a genius at setting up discussions and keeping the flow going. You can't teach this skill.
You absolutely can teach it. But he is quite skilled at it.
@@DB-sj8km Idk about that. Some things are just inherent to individuals. Another can be taught to some degree, but never quite becomes as fluid and smooth. I'll use Phil Liggett as an example... a legendary pro cycling presenter that hasn't been equaled in 40 years. Why are we not teaching people to be as good as him... because some skills are simply part of who we are, not what we're taught.
Gee you boys work well together. Keep throwing out these wicked vids. Thanks to all
Great duo these two 🙌
Well done Ollie, well done! 🎉
Smashed it!
Absolutely the show I needed today, laughed out loud, great to see you 2 back, even though we know you dislike each other 😂😂
Well done Ollie for completing the 1000Km! Superb!!🚴♀️
Alex missed a trick to connect Ollies bum to tyres via the common theme of skidmarks
Double wrap bars and gloves help.
Always entertaining these two!
Good learning here! Yes indeed, bike fit is critical and different. And doing a ride like this highlights that issues you get at 200km are different to those at 400km... and different again from those at 800km and just because your bike is good for a 200km ride doesn't mean it is good for a 1000km ride! Well done for getting through some of those tricky issues that can be show stoppers such as Shermers neck.
I almost commented on your TDS video about tri-bars but figured with all the climbing it didn't make sense but I guess that's why all the super endurance athletes use them. Can get a more relaxed position and aero when you need it.
I believe a retro review on the Trek Y-Foil is warranted
“e-sports news” that always cracks me up to hear.
I've had a thought about Ollie's next two challenges. The First one, Paris-Breast-Paris. The second one, London-Edinburgh-London. These would make great GCN+ videos.
Felix and Ollie a great team
Another great show boys, highlights for me, 'it's a tough cookie' - with comments like that Alex should be a shoe in for next year's Edinburgh Festival. Then there was Ollie's wet wipe sequence, that should probably be up for an Oscar 😂
Tragically, that is your best joke, Graham! 😂😂
Fair Play😂
Is that a corn flakes reflector on the chopper... instant supernicee!!!!!
For the neck I think that might be caused by riding at night. In that case you have to hold your head higher than in the day because you can't see the road well enough with your peripheral vision. Fatigue also plays a major role obviously.
I bet he wouldn’t find it nearly as difficult 2nd time round!! Well done big man!!
Tour de station? To paraphrase Bogart in Cassablanca, "play it again Ollie".
GCN after dark 😂😂😂😂
Thanks Greg!
Never go into such a ride not being set up properly, when I used to do long rides while riding on wide open roads but not as long as this ride, I'll be riding with my hands crossed over the stem where the handlebar and stem are attached together this way I'm sitting more up right instead of being on the lever bodies or drops, thus reliving a lot of the neck pain, I would also size down, go to a shorter stem with a perhaps a 5 degree rise as well this would help out a lot when going on a ride like this. Just my 2 cents.
Great riding, 1k
Really hoping the wet wiping scene hasn't made the cut on the GCN+ documentary 😬. Cheers for answering my query on the dyno-hub/powerbank choice though, Ollie.
Next extreme ride, You're up Alex!!
You lads once spoke about sportive geometrys all the time i would have geussed a sportive bike would have been first shout for something of this length
OK, perhap it would be best to have the "Wet-wipe" video while Ollie sings, "Comments of the Week."
The best way to stop your hands and bum hurting is put more power through your feet😉
Just coming back from a 1500km nonstop race I can relate to Ollies words to a point it almost hurts 😂
Wow! Kudos, what race was that? 🤯
@@gcntech the race around austria 1500 😁🇦🇹
I've read some accounts from people doing long Audax rides because I just cannot imagine what it is like. A few of the accounts said they would use a recumbent next time.
Alex and Ollie are a great presenter pairing 👍
Wet wiping scene needs to be in the video absolutely. Well done Ollie on your ultimate 1000 Challenge. I’d like to put my Orbea In the Bike Vault but still waiting for it😢. Was told it’s due this week but updates are a bit slow. Still Thank you all. I did also ask if you the presenters wanted to do a presentation of the bike if not too late?
2:40 - I, for one, learnt from Mark Beaumont's videos (on GCN - you must've heard about the channel... ;).
Once again, congrats! Any 100km trip is going to be like a short jaunt now.
PS
An aero bar is definitely a wrist-saver but could increase the neck pain if set-up for aero (that is, too low).
GC-what? Sounds like a great informative yet fun channel though 😉 Ollie eats 100km's for breakfast 🥣
Interestingly the first reported use of aerobars was for comfort in ultra endurance like RAAM. The aero benefit seems to have been a side effect and became the dominant consideration when it was adopted by triathletes around 1987...
Let’s Go OLLIE!!!
That's interesting... My longest rides (24 hours on two different occasions 480 and 550 km) took place before the helmet era (in the 80's). Neck pain was a problem them but it has gotten much worse with a few hundred grams of additional helmet weight on the top of your head)... That doesn't mean I would advise to go back and ride without helmets though...
Poor Hank, how did he get dragged into that burn?! 😂
Trick to get super nice: more sugar for Ollie!
After doing a 202 mile race last year: I had severe neck pain the last 40 miles. It was painful.
What is wrong with using high density and highly nutritious fatty foods instead of carbs for an endurance event? A denser source with more calories and a more stable fuel for the body. Macadamia nuts, walnuts and almonds are all excellent fuels for long distance cycling. Dried fruits like figs, apricots and dates have lots of electrolytes such as potassium, magnesium, calcium and sodium which are essential when drinking lots of water. Carbohydrates always cause me to be thirsty because one gram requires 3 grams of water for the body to absorb the sugar. Eating a lot of fructose, like you did, also puts a large burden on the liver which is the only organ that processes fructose unlike glucose which every cell can process. And how about protein to help the muscles recover during cycling and during the rest breaks?
The muscles need both fats and carbohydrates for fuel. We all have more than enough fat stores even for a 1000km ride, but carbohydrate stores are very limited. We can't convert fat into carbohydrate. So, for any prolonged exercise, we need to replenish carbohydrate to keep going.
@@edlazda3245 You are only telling me what the pharmaceutical and medical industries have been telling us for 50 years and what all 'sporting' experts have regurgitated for the same period. Which is why 88% of Americans are insulin resistant and why we have a pandemic of obesity and diabetes in the UK. Have you heard of ketones? Carbohydrates (sugar) is one form of energy; the worst form for the body. A poison that is the biggest killer in Western societies and responsible for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, alzheimer's and many cancers. Fat is a dense, stable, form of energy that does not result in the production of insulin. It predates carbohydrates as a source of fuel in the evolutionary chain. Insulin tells the body to store fat; not to burn fat. It is produced whenever we eat any carbohydrates. When the body is retrained to become metabolically flexible and fat adaptive it burns fat just as easily as carbohydrates. Fuelling for an endurance ride with fats does not affect performance. I only use extra carbohydrates immediately in advance of a challenging segment when I need a burst of energy from either released glycogen or newly absorbed glucose. The glucose that is not immediately used by the body is turned into triglycerides or stored as body fat. So the body is either burning fat or converting carbohydrates into fat. I'd suggest watching a few videos by Dr Sten Ekberg. He is a former US Olympic decathlete and a holistic doctor who looks at the whole picture; not just contemporary 'wisdom'.
Digesting a large volume of nuts and dried fruits is a major problem on long distance bike rides - too much fibre!
I've got another question I'm wondering about at the moment: Does it matter what road bike brand one buys? Are they vastly different or do the all make somewhat the same thing with similar performance and just different geometry of the frame and other brands on the parts? Comparing in the same price category of course.
Ohhh dear I now have a mental picture of Pekka and Olli on an ultra endurance race rubbing each other down with wet wipes...thanks a lot!!!
Enjoy 😉
Stop it....lalalalalalalalalala!!@@gcntech
Could your team have taken a second bike on the TdS? A bike with straight bars?
That wet wipes dance though Olie! 😂
😂
I imagine there's plenty of tolerance in those lightweight bikes for us mere mortals who don't smash 1500w Sprints or go up mountains at 6-8w/kg
Caption: Remco Evenepoel showing sepp kuss that he can also wetten his whistle….
Unfortunately this time there is no link to the bikes of the bike vault, could you insert it to the description? I would like to find the Cervelo S2, but the Trek was also very interesting and would like to observe it better 🤔
When is the GCN+ docu coming out regarding the TDS ride?
Well Ollie should try next ultra marathon event with more endurance bike 😊 and then answer the if it is more enjoyable for neck and arms
mate, going to my local Tesco in Bristol my left back shoulders burnt so much seems I have a barbecue up there, imagine me doing a 1000k lol
Alex for the 1000 great idea boys 😃
GCN Pixies & Elves will you please jump on your bikes and head North to Sturmy- Archer in Nottingham and make a video there. please!
Oh Head East to Braford on Avon and go visit Moulton Cycles too. You're not exactly far away!
Ollie needs to follow Mike Tyson’s neck training regime.
Do Hunt have a rim brake version of these wheels? Andrew Feather might have the disc ones on his newer bike, but then won’t have them on his hill climb bike.
THE COOKIE 😂
Loved that wet wipe scene.
#askgcntech - are there rider weight limit recommendations for these hyper light frames? At 83kg I worry about material fatigue over the years.
Hey GCN, could you please investigate why different riders have different saddle experiences? I ride ~10000km a year but still get issues with saddle sores. I wonder if there are certain parameters/attributes which determine this. Assuming the saddle choice is optimal (at least from what is on the market), maybe there are still other variables like the shape of the sit bones (i mean really the contact point area), and skin/tissue composure, nerve locations, etc. I mean there are even endurance riders who ride without padded shorts. At some point, no matter how well designed the saddle or shorts are, i can not imagine not having saddle pain during 3+ hour rides. Although, its not too bad ;)
Try lowering your saddle 3mm at a time until the saddle sores are no longer a problem. Most likely your pelvis is rocking which creates chafing, hence saddle sores. I see many people out there on saddles too high even after a paid for bike fit.
Human anatomy is fairly standard!
Can we make the wet wipe dance go viral 😂 nice one Dr bridgewood
ollie has done it - conor/hank next.
The snack of the week segment should be renamed 'Snack / Sustenance' - sponsored by SiS perhaps???
I vote the gIANT COOKIE as sustenance.
Ollie actually had a big 700XL Cateye light, not Topeak #notasponsor 😅
Gagnon equals "Ganyon" I should think.....
#askgcntech I need to cut an aluminium handlebar but two different pipecutters both spiralled instead of cutting in a straight line. Could they both be bad or is there a trick to this?
I noticed that the cutter wheels can move sideways.
isn't 1000km a Megameter?
With Ollie's current fitness level he needs to try the Hour record again!!
Respek Ollie💪🏾🫶🏾 🙌🏾
Wet washing scene currently available on you bike ride. Subscription only lol. 😊
Defo not a bio-chemist😂. The sucrose in the jam is 1:1 glucose:fructose, white rice is primarily starch - while being a combination of glucose polymers, is broken down by very different mechanisms to sucrose
Trust your bike fitter. Get a relax fit for an endurance bike that you are using to an endurance race
Gravel bikes have a more relaxed geometry and lower gears. But Ollie says gravel bikes are dumb.
No need to pay for another bike fit, shorten the stem 10mm and raise it with a 3mm spacer and go again, your welcome.
It's been a whilst since anyone has tried to break Hank, so how about getting Hank to do this on a recumbent with a full aero body kit.
I think that's the reason Paris-Brest-Paris happens only every four years... I think it takes about 3 years to forget the pain and think "yeah, I want to do it again..."
I cannot understand why Ollie didn't like his own "Comments of the Week" introduction. He broke into a bit of a song when he first did it. Conor's was pants, and Manon's was a mess. I think you should have a poll. Play each one, and have the viewers vote. Count me in for "Ollie."
Are there exercises we can do for our neck/shoulders to be able to hold our heads up longer without pain? Perhaps this would be a good video?
any back and shoulder resistance exercise would help, Si and Ollie have woeful upper bodies so what do you expect. They both look like they have zero upper body strength whatsoever.
I'm surprised they didn't spend more time discussing the Rally Chopper, how the rear suspension works, how the rear brake works, and how the shifting works. Does it have an internal multi-speed hub AND an internal hub brake?
It even has the valves aligned and the cranks in the 3 o'clock position.
05:25 Pirelli P-Zero SL where the SL stands for... Slightly Lighter. 😑
23:48 It's pronounced GANN-YONN. Correction from Canada.