J Wakefield

1 is myself so essentially 2 if we getting all scientific

Booked a place in Saint Lary Soulan and brining 3 of my closest mates over and we gonna ride bikes and watch a stage or 2 of the Tour like lunatics on Aspin or Tourmalet.

It’s SA Champs. There is only 1 place that counts.

If the wind plays along the smarter move will be for the stronger guys to put it in the gutter and totally split it and hopefully catch a potential winner out and do this before the climb. As per normal SA racing at SA Champs, they sit and follow a few potential winners wheels. no one will chase and the gap will grow. then out of that group try split again on the climb and go to the line with a even more select group.

Yes Remember it well; different times for cycling back then vs now also.

Doesn’t matter where you hold it, people will bitch. no, 2019 was not the same in comparison. Great for SA in terms of a standard. Much like suikerbossie at Argus

Its South Africa, not Aus and not Columbia so the the support isn't there, doesn't matter the location. Same reason why in the middle of no where in Europe ones sleep on Alp du Huez for a week waiting for the stage. No one is sleeping on Chappies

When the author of the article is mates for Strickland for one and you shouldn’t writing an article like this or taking it on as an assignment and you don’t disclose this and how Outside signed this off is another question all together.

You would need to ask the people who paid their way into a team.

Sometimes the whole "hippy" outside persona is simply that - a persona. You hear from people who have validity in this, that what you see is not actually what is real in terms of personalities here. Bottom line is it was a senseless murder that should never of happened. Hope they throw the key away and everyone is taken to task while they take this article down.

Thanks for the info, this makes a lot of sense seeing the downward trajectory of the site and quality. I agree that this piece should never of been run, for me its anything but quality and a load of total ****. But that's me.

For me this is a terrible article. But Outside level of quality has been on a downward slope as of recent so not to surprising.

What is the training volume per week please? example: Week 1 10hrs 2 15hrs etc Intensity of each ride? How many rides per week How has sleep quality been? Are you trying to lose weight by cutting calories?

In todays times people are identifying as a double door fridge, so respect to Rapunzel and all but you never know.

And what you willing to pay

There would need to be more context in the info. Reading it with the limited info it is the following: Fitness has dropped (presume to less riding and training) hasn't felt good on the bike (would be a normal reaction to loss of fitness Resting Heart rate is 5 beats lower than normal This isn't enough info to say this person is over trained. Possibly could be a variable but he has mentioned nothing on his last 4-6 weeks of training volume. Has he been restricting meals to lose weight? if so, no energy and power is a typically a 1st sign. Typically 5 beats difference up or down is not a red flag when looking at variability. More info and you can start to investigate why.

He is a mechanic at the World Tour team, not the development

The plot thickens

Unless you sitting behind Remco clearly 🤣

A gentleman never tells.....

Have we established yet if the poster actually watched the video vs what he is crying like a brat about in the post?

You wonder if he actually watched the video.

Looked like he dropped like a lead stone when he wanted to. On his wheel he was doing 300-310W breathing like a 80's porno star mid scene. This would be mid Zone 2 for Remco.

Im sure he will get a win at a smaller race but I can't see it at the Tour for example. the level is just too high and the teams are so organised.