40,000km & 74 Everests In A Year? The Impressive Stats Of Pro Cyclists | GCN Racing News Show
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- How many miles and meters of climbing do pro riders endure to maintain their place in the peloton? Coming to you from the Visma Lease A Bike Training camp, Dan runs you through the greatest cycling stats of 2023, revealing the incredible (and somewhat bonkers) stats behind the world's best cyclists.
00:00 Intro
01:30 Pro cycling Strava statistics
02:07 Sepp Kuss elevation gain
02:45 Robert Gesink elevation p/km
03:09 Megan Armitage Strava activities
03:45 Hardest and easiest cycling races 2023
05:45 Road racing returns
08:55 Quinn Simmons training
09:42 Cycling transfer and contract news
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Do you know anyone who could top these pro cycling statistics? 🚴
Dr. Bridgewood, perhaps?
@gcnracing i Got over 40.000k last year 😂.. with an avg of 34kph...come on! Give me that pro contract 😊
In 2021, Charlie Martin, an illustrious US randonneur, rode 35,846 miles (57,689 km) and 3,456,788 feet of elevation (1,053,628 meters). That's right, A MILLION METERS!
He had a more sedate year in 2023, and still rode 17,688 miles (28,466 km) with 1,181,132 feet of elevation (360,009 meters).
In 2023 I rode nearly 3,000 hours, or.. 52,910 miles (85,150km) and climbed 4,170,820ft (1,271,265m). That's 142 miles (233km) and 11,427ft (3,483m) per day. It was my 5th consecutive year surpassing 40,000 miles.
@durianriders killing this on rim brakes
I don't think Dan's attempts at self-deprecation fool anybody. He was a proper top level pro, end of story.
Yeh I rode with him loads he was a good rider 😊I keep trying to get him to come out riding maybe one day 😊
The Cervelo test team are calling him weekly to try and get him back too :-)
@@iancollins6104 not anymore 😂😂🥶
U attempting for comment of the week or something 😉
39,000 kilometers a year? That’s equivalent to riding upwards of 100km every single day of the year without pause. That’s insane.
you are a great sports reporter. Kudos
from this I learned I could actually race the easiest race of the year
I still honestly can't believe UAE's selection for tdf. I mean in a leader-type heavy team like UAE, you have to keep your riders happy, but damn. FOUR people (Pogacar, Yates, Almeida and Ayuso) that could easily be the sole leader of most teams and mainly just one dude for the flat stages. Either they're gonna smash the tour with jumbo-like multi leadership strategy, or egos (mostly Almeida and Soler and maybe Ayuso I think) are gonna get in the way of the main goal of winning. Either way, I can't wait for the summer to come!!!! Pog vs Remco vs Roglic vs Vingegaard is gonna be epic!
Go look at Jack Ultra Cyclists stats from last year. he rode 1,000,000 m climbing and did an Everest every week.
My lady friend is over 60 and works a full time job teaching after lunch into the late evening covered 37,000 plus and in mountainous terrain climbed in excess of 300,000 metres...more than 100 a day whilst working full time. She also runs ( cross country marathon winner ,) and swims ( one time national champion in butterfly)
Dianne Newsome, from jerez on Strava...I covered 19,000 and feel like an amateur!
Actually nearly 1000 metres a day! 😮 #respect
Just to add on transfers, Ineos signed Storm to add to their ‘ascent programme’.
Dan racing Kuss and Vingegaard? I guess it‘s a race to the bar.
Kuss still has it 😂
I find it hard to believe it. I used to spend regularly a month in the Alps and it was around 35-40 km of elevation. Of course I'm no pro but still.
Most of the top people on that list live in Andorra, where almost literally every road is climbing, with lots of really high and steep climbs around. They cannot even do a 10km ride there without altitude meters, let alone their 100+km training rides. So every day they go up and down multiple mountains of the calibre of cat 1 Tour de France climbs. That racks up quickly.
Exactly, you aren't a pro so what's your point
Dan Is the goat of gcn
I noticed Adam Kolarski in Strava logging similarly imressive stats, in spite of not being a pro rider 😮
What's that Song in the beginning?
I have to up my distance and drop my climbing a bit in 2024...I had half the hours, but only 1/3 the distance.
Quinn with Classics square in the sights.
Road racing has begun. Where do we watch the races over here in Asia? Or for the rest of the world.
I logged 59 000 km and 531 000 meters of elevation in 2023. I am also definitely not a pro rider. 😊
What's your strava
Takeaway’s: UAE is ‘24s Jumbo, Seppy and Jonas are gonna antagonize the peloton like angry wasps, and at age 61 I could have hung with the pack at the Tour of Turkey (maybe showing off my 500-watt-for-three-second sprint at the end for the W!!).
I logged 300 activities last year, at an average of 20 miles, lol
Michael Brandes - San Francisco, Ca (Bay Area) 2023 - 2024 (Strava profile is public, check it out)
2024
108 consecutive rides of 100 mile / 10,000 ft. or more
15 Double Centuries (3 doubles in 8 days)
1,400,000 ft. elevation
16,000 miles
2023
23,000 miles
2,100,000 ft. elevation
100 consecutive rides of 10,000 ft. or more
How much elevation did Andrew Feather (british hillclimb champion) have last year?
I remember a few years back, Andrea Paluan had a year on Strava with over 1 Million meters of climbing.
Anyone know of a good way to get these races now that GCN+is gone
If you're in the US Flobikes carries a lot of races though not as much as GCN+. Peacock usually covers the TdF, Dauphine, Vuelta, Paris Roubaix
if you're in the UK, you can get Discovery+ (and Eurosport in mainland Europe)
dan!
Did Dan mean FDJ-Suez when he mentioned Grace Brown's national iTT win?
I noticed that one as well. Oops!
Dan racing Sepp and Jonas... to the bar?
Do you guys know Jack the ultra cyclist?
Got over 40.000k last year 😂.. with an avg of 34kph...come on! Give me that pro contract 😊
Sorry, but i really dont think so. If you really did that you would be on a level where already catched the attention of many pro Teams
@@bruno3413 Mileage (while super impressive) doesn’t tell the whole story.
@@bruno3413 maybe... check my strava ;-)
My non pro friend Arend VandenBroucke did 659,876m climbing in 19,947km if you want to talk about legends
A good chunk of Megan Armitage’s overall kilometres in her end year stats on Strava were from non cycling activities if I remember correctly though
Like driving?
I’m Everesting at this very moment on zwift. Fricken sucks.
dan yuo will racing agasit sepp kiss and Jonas maybe at the pub counter
Ok, sounds obvious but what counts as an elevation gain? Does it include every single minor bump and rise in the road (ie anything angled over 0°) separated by minor falls even every few metres, which can cancel each other out on a route where, for example, the start and finish is at sea level? So a race may have 1000m of climbing spread over 200km with no official climbs but also 1000m of descending. Or is it just rises on officially categorised climbs and excluding everything in between even significant inclines that anywhere else may be categorised?
I realise I should probably be posting this in the Dull Men’s Club!
Hello fellow DMC member!
Yes, a ride counts all the little ups and downs as elevation gain. Any ride that starts and finishes at the same place will have equal metres gained climbing and descending. (Actually, all my rides have a couple of metres discrepancy due to GPS imperfections.)
Cheers! Appreciate the answer. So, on a 200km course where the road goes up 20m for a km (an almost insignificant 2% incline) and then down 20m for a km (as an example) and repeats itself, will have 2000m of altitude gain (as well as 2000m of descents) over its entire length (roughly a quarter of Everest from sea level).
Doesn’t actually sound that impressive when put like that, to be fair, especially if you’re a pro as that sounds like a flat course. Maybe only inclines for at least 1km and an average gradient of 10% or more should be counted or something along those lines.
Amateurs who can match the climbs... to state the obvious, Andrew Feather.
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