You should compare to the time of the grupetto, strava of Cees Bol for example! Braus 29:41 (32:04 for you), Turini 1:00:07 ( 1:03:15 for you), Colmiane 46:19 (55:59 for you) and Couillole 1:03:02 (1:10:24 for you). Of course you were slower on flat on descent, but you are a very good cyclist, closer to grupetto on climb than the gruppetto is to Pogacar. Huge concrats
@@tristantakevideo you are a great cyclist. This comment puts even more emphasis on the strength of the peloton! The grupetto will make the time cut, but you didn't... That shows how strong these guys are. (I'm sure you would have made the time cut with the Grupetto that being said)
the only thing is grupetto riders had 19 stages of the Tour in legs. apart from that ofc the comparison is objective. it's super cool that we can compare our efforts against pro riders, but we should compare apples to apples.
@@Saladh_Olivier and the grupetto is doing those climbs in zone 2 , their training stress score at the end of mountain stage that they time just to beat the cutoff won’t crack 100, ….for mortals……a fresh, nearly 5 watt/kg rider would have to smash him/herself to make cut off and take a week to recover
“There’s a lot of broken bodies up here” followed by that grin and chuckle… 😂😂😂😂 I felt that T… 😅… awesome experience… definitely gives a greater appreciation for what the pros go thru - and their ability to do it… 🍻
Hey mate! Never write comments on youtube, but just wanted to cheer you up a bit. You've done a fantastic effort and that "pitstop" on the last climb will be just another thing to learn from and become better in the future. The whole life we learn something and fostering some skills. Thanks for sharing it with everyone, I hope it will be a reminder for some amateur cyclists that sometimes to stop and recover might much better for your overall health, rather push yourself too deep and have. a long term consequences. Congrats and thanks for your videos :)
Great effort, thank you for your honesty in regard to a 3mins standstill. We have all been there. I am glad it happens to someone of your calibre too. The heat in the south of France can also be suffocating.
Hey Tristan, a fantastic video as ever. Well done on a brilliant time. It was great to be able to chat to you in the starting pen and thanks for being so friendly and generous with your time. I was a little over an hour and a half, behind you - not too shabby for an old man - but likewise suffered somewhat on the last climb having gone off a bit too hard.
Outstanding video that brought back memories of my 2022 L’Etape . .. the Alp Duez was our final climb and like you I had to stop about half way up. Luckily there are a few waterfalls on the climb up and after sticking my head underneath one, soaking my helmet and refilling my water bottle I got pedalling again, albeit slowly. Seeing the finish banner and the huge finishing line crowd was an incredible relief but in an odd way I was sorry have the extraordinary experience come to an end . BTW I started in the 3000 block , finished 1106 😀 @ 65 yrs young
It’s been a long time since you posted a video, but you did not disappoint. That was really enjoyable, and I look forward to doing that route because when I come to Girona this year, I’m gonna spend two weeks in Nice.
So impressed with your effort as well as the videography. Kudos, hope to see more videos on your trading and adventures with your friends in the pro peloton.
This is ridiculusly impressive Tristan!! Congratulations on finishing L’Etape and in amazing time! If I had ridden with you-I still probably wouldn’t finish by now 😂
Thanks for producing such a well-documented video, some of the footage of the mountains was incredible! Must've been an awesome experience doing a recon of an actual Tour stage, imagining what it would be like for the peloton to ride the same climbs (and how insanely fast they are). Good on you! Fantastic ride too, congrats!
But you got back up, got back on and still hit 245 for the final climb in an epic day. Love the content, love the access to Ben and your coach's experience. Keep it coming, favourite cycling content creator out there.
Fabulous vid of a fabulous event.You did perform great Mon ami,it was a tough course.Chapeau mate! I love your work btw Despite riding my fav BMC I wasn’t as fast as you,far from it,but I enjoyed every mn of the ride. Thanks again for this beautifull content.
Happy memories - though I was a lot slower than you, Tristan, and stopped at 3 of the feedstops, which were overcrowded as squashed into smaller spaces than usual on L’Étape. The descent off the Turini was very tricky. Like you I was super-cautious and lost time but finished in one piece. The final climb seemed to go on forever. The disappointment of this edition was the finish - there’s nothing at the top of the col and the location of the pasta party was 5-6 km down through rather chaotic traffic.
Good job bro! I saw you actually on last uphill when you was exhaust 😅 I was also exhausted but didn’t want to stop to say hi ) Hope to meet you in next year if you want to come to “enjoy” another challenge smth like that )
Great video as usual Tristan! I’ve got to be careful watching these GF vids of yours…. Last one I ended up doing Strade Blanche GF. Keep up the great YTing. 👍😀
I finished in over 9 hours after starting well - my bonk came a bit earlier than yours & I would dream of just one little sit down on that last climb. Between dodging broom wagons & trying to help drag some other folks up with me I took over 2hrs for that final bloody climb - those last 5km seemed to last an eternity. You absolutely smashed it to finish as high as you did (as did all finishers) as it was a very tough day out for everyone
superb effort mate, great numbers ... training paid off - got to be happy with that experience. can't compare yourself to doped up rider numbers thats not real world.🤫
Nice one mate, if your up for a bit more of a demon of a couple of days And why not 🤔 Youve got this in the legs and a month to get primed (Inferno bike race)
You have been very humble commenting on your capacities here 🙂 I will then unveal the truth: Tristan could have ridden all climbs at > than 5 watt/kg, easily
@@tristantakevideo Longer than you haha very great until an explosion AT 10 km from finish . Very surprised by my endurance and capacity to climb in Mountain . Im 5'4 and 75 kg . I need to Lost weight for next year.
It’s worth doing for sure. It requires a fair bit of training to get through but it’s such a well organised event and being able to directly compare your times to pro’s for the exact same course is cool. I’d recommend it, 100%.
@@tristantakevideo Thank you! You did a great job, I would be struggling to hit 3 w/kg on those climbs. Doesn’t help I live in the flattest part of the UK, so hard to get training in on the climbs.
To me it looks like a huge BONKING. If I remember correctly in some previous video when you were with the pros in a camp you said you had some trouble with the "prescribed" amount of fuels and you just can't do it. I feel this is it. 4000m elevation with altitude is no small deal. Plus for any activity/event that span over 4 hr you are in a tricky position because you will inevitably skip a meal. It's really tricky to calculate the calories in this situation, because the usual 60g or 100g /hr is under the presumption that you have covered your basic calories in the form of meal while during the activity you only have to worry about the extra energy expenditure from the activity. Even if you have that sorted out, whether or not you body can accept it while doing zone 4 zone 3 effort is another topic. To me this happens a lot even if it's relatively low intensity activity. It happens on long hikes, even long road trips. When you skipped the meal usually you'll fell OK for a long while but then near the end you'll be in a unrecoverable state that no matter what you eat you just couldn't get out. For me that point is usually around 8 hrs when it's low intensity hike like activity. In theory this is zone 1/2 that you should be able to go forever, but man it's not. I think the current unbelievable performance of the pros is largely related with the new approaches in nutrition. Probably you should next hire a coach to train your stomach.
@tristantakevideo is your left-to-right power imbalance fairly consistent around 52%/48%? I have a similar imbalance and I guess it makes sense cause I used to play basketball in previous life and for a right-handed player, you jump off the left leg more often, so muscle is likely stronger. I just like to be symmetrical ;-)
I actually couldn’t tell you..I’ve been running a single sided power meter for the last few years, until I got my Assioma pedals recently. But in the first few rides I did notice that difference, but couldn’t necessarily explain the reason.
@tristantakevideo next time you see Ben, you could ask him what his is. 😉 Curious if the pros have an imbalance (probably) and how much it might be. That's why amateurs should not look at data, it just makes us wonder about the wrong things. 😆
I think Ben’s is 50/50..haha. I’ll make sure I ask though. There are heaps of tiny things most amateurs focus on (me included at times), without putting in place the main building blocks like proper, consistent training and recovery.
Embarrassing? That's rubbish brother, you did better than 95% of the human population on this planet 😅 I started crying upon mere mentioning of 135 km, 4000 m elevation 😀😀😀
I am an Algerian cyclist and I need your help in explaining some of the obstacles that I find in the training programs that you explained in a previous video by your personal trainer. Please respond, thank you.😢😢
@@tristantakevideo Including training on integration, knowing that my specialty is long climbs, and I also need to explain what to do the week before the race
@tristantakevideo I thank you for your efforts, thanks to God and thanks to you, my levels have improved for the better and I am currently close to joining our team.
You should compare to the time of the grupetto, strava of Cees Bol for example! Braus 29:41 (32:04 for you), Turini 1:00:07 ( 1:03:15 for you), Colmiane 46:19 (55:59 for you) and Couillole 1:03:02 (1:10:24 for you). Of course you were slower on flat on descent, but you are a very good cyclist, closer to grupetto on climb than the gruppetto is to Pogacar. Huge concrats
My confidence after reading this: 📈 Thanks so much man 🙏🏼
@@tristantakevideo you are a great cyclist. This comment puts even more emphasis on the strength of the peloton! The grupetto will make the time cut, but you didn't... That shows how strong these guys are. (I'm sure you would have made the time cut with the Grupetto that being said)
the only thing is grupetto riders had 19 stages of the Tour in legs. apart from that ofc the comparison is objective. it's super cool that we can compare our efforts against pro riders, but we should compare apples to apples.
@@Saladh_Olivier and the grupetto is doing those climbs in zone 2 , their training stress score at the end of mountain stage that they time just to beat the cutoff won’t crack 100, ….for mortals……a fresh, nearly 5 watt/kg rider would have to smash him/herself to make cut off and take a week to recover
“There’s a lot of broken bodies up here” followed by that grin and chuckle… 😂😂😂😂 I felt that T… 😅… awesome experience… definitely gives a greater appreciation for what the pros go thru - and their ability to do it… 🍻
Hey mate! Never write comments on youtube, but just wanted to cheer you up a bit. You've done a fantastic effort and that "pitstop" on the last climb will be just another thing to learn from and become better in the future. The whole life we learn something and fostering some skills. Thanks for sharing it with everyone, I hope it will be a reminder for some amateur cyclists that sometimes to stop and recover might much better for your overall health, rather push yourself too deep and have. a long term consequences.
Congrats and thanks for your videos :)
Thanks mate, really appreciate the comment and kind words! 🙏🏼
Great effort, thank you for your honesty in regard to a 3mins standstill. We have all been there. I am glad it happens to someone of your calibre too. The heat in the south of France can also be suffocating.
Easily the best cycling TH-cam channel!
Hey Tristan, a fantastic video as ever. Well done on a brilliant time. It was great to be able to chat to you in the starting pen and thanks for being so friendly and generous with your time. I was a little over an hour and a half, behind you - not too shabby for an old man - but likewise suffered somewhat on the last climb having gone off a bit too hard.
Good to meet you too Jonathan! 🙏🏼
Outstanding video that brought back memories of my 2022 L’Etape . .. the Alp Duez was our final climb and like you I had to stop about half way up. Luckily there are a few waterfalls on the climb up and after sticking my head underneath one, soaking my helmet and refilling my water bottle I got pedalling again, albeit slowly. Seeing the finish banner and the huge finishing line crowd was an incredible relief but in an odd way I was sorry have the extraordinary experience come to an end . BTW I started in the 3000 block , finished 1106 😀 @ 65 yrs young
It’s been a long time since you posted a video, but you did not disappoint. That was really enjoyable, and I look forward to doing that route because when I come to Girona this year, I’m gonna spend two weeks in Nice.
great video Tristan!
crazy to see the comparisons between the pros and you up the climbs.
So impressed with your effort as well as the videography. Kudos, hope to see more videos on your trading and adventures with your friends in the pro peloton.
Frothing on this content Tristan you are an absolute animal. Congrats on a epic ride.
Thanks my dude 🙌🏼
This is ridiculusly impressive Tristan!!
Congratulations on finishing L’Etape and in amazing time!
If I had ridden with you-I still probably wouldn’t finish by now 😂
Thanks for producing such a well-documented video, some of the footage of the mountains was incredible! Must've been an awesome experience doing a recon of an actual Tour stage, imagining what it would be like for the peloton to ride the same climbs (and how insanely fast they are). Good on you! Fantastic ride too, congrats!
Thanks so much Liam 🙏🏼 Really glad you enjoyed.
Seriously underrated content 🔥
But you got back up, got back on and still hit 245 for the final climb in an epic day. Love the content, love the access to Ben and your coach's experience. Keep it coming, favourite cycling content creator out there.
Great video and analysis. Appreciate your honesty and congratulations on your achievement 🎉
Thanks so much mate 🙏🏼
Really Motivational! ❤
毎日見てます😊
Congrats man 🙌🏻
Yay! Paroo and your parents got a mention as well. Nice!
Thanks for the awesome video, man 🚀 You did a great job riding those legendary climbs💪
Thanks mate 🙏🏼 Always appreciate your support.
So good TC. Loving all the different angles
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Fantastic video!🫵☀️🇳🇴🙏
It’s been a while. It’s Friday, Tristan posts new video
Fabulous vid of a fabulous event.You did perform great Mon ami,it was a tough course.Chapeau mate!
I love your work btw
Despite riding my fav BMC I wasn’t as fast as you,far from it,but I enjoyed every mn of the ride.
Thanks again for this beautifull content.
Thanks mate! 🙏🏼
Solid 💪, I was able to do it couple yrs back...great experience 🙂
Great video! Nice power
very cool to see how dope tour de france cycliste are.!!
Great video, just came back from Nice and got the vibe from TDF…next time I’ll take my bike
Some class filming there bro
Happy memories - though I was a lot slower than you, Tristan, and stopped at 3 of the feedstops, which were overcrowded as squashed into smaller spaces than usual on L’Étape. The descent off the Turini was very tricky. Like you I was super-cautious and lost time but finished in one piece. The final climb seemed to go on forever. The disappointment of this edition was the finish - there’s nothing at the top of the col and the location of the pasta party was 5-6 km down through rather chaotic traffic.
Insightful.Subscribed❤️🇰🇪👌🏿
Wow, having to stop like that right before the finish must have meant you dug yourself into a really, really deep hole. Please don't die!
Good job bro! I saw you actually on last uphill when you was exhaust 😅
I was also exhausted but didn’t want to stop to say hi )
Hope to meet you in next year if you want to come to “enjoy” another challenge smth like that )
Great video as usual Tristan! I’ve got to be careful watching these GF vids of yours…. Last one I ended up doing Strade Blanche GF. Keep up the great YTing. 👍😀
Nice effort and video Tristan!! - back in Granada in a month...? 🔥🤩
I finished in over 9 hours after starting well - my bonk came a bit earlier than yours & I would dream of just one little sit down on that last climb. Between dodging broom wagons & trying to help drag some other folks up with me I took over 2hrs for that final bloody climb - those last 5km seemed to last an eternity. You absolutely smashed it to finish as high as you did (as did all finishers) as it was a very tough day out for everyone
Excellent video. I also did the etape...wonderful experience. How many carbs did you do on route and how was fuelling strategy?
Thank you 🙏🏼 I averaged around 90g/carbs an hour for the event, but front loaded the carb intake so in the first 2 hours I had more like 220g.
there's type 1 fun, type 2 fun and this!
We all suffer on the Bike Some more then other And love the classic Hendrix remix
Beautiful video
Thank you 🙏🏼
superb effort mate, great numbers ... training paid off - got to be happy with that experience. can't compare yourself to doped up rider numbers thats not real world.🤫
Nice one mate, if your up for a bit more of a demon of a couple of days And why not 🤔 Youve got this in the legs and a month to get primed (Inferno bike
race)
Sic vid. Well don
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Dude how i missed this videos pleas do more events like the credit card bike packing last yea
You have been very humble commenting on your capacities here 🙂 I will then unveal the truth: Tristan could have ridden all climbs at > than 5 watt/kg, easily
Haha I know I will be in ! I am here with my french kit at 4:42
Nice! How was the event for you? Happy with your time?
@@tristantakevideo Longer than you haha very great until an explosion AT 10 km from finish . Very surprised by my endurance and capacity to climb in Mountain . Im 5'4 and 75 kg . I need to Lost weight for next year.
@@tristantakevideo What is the camera model u put on your jersey please?
It’s an Insta360 Go3S 👌🏼
Would love to do L’etape, just seems so intimidating
It’s worth doing for sure. It requires a fair bit of training to get through but it’s such a well organised event and being able to directly compare your times to pro’s for the exact same course is cool. I’d recommend it, 100%.
@@tristantakevideo Thank you! You did a great job, I would be struggling to hit 3 w/kg on those climbs. Doesn’t help I live in the flattest part of the UK, so hard to get training in on the climbs.
To me it looks like a huge BONKING. If I remember correctly in some previous video when you were with the pros in a camp you said you had some trouble with the "prescribed" amount of fuels and you just can't do it. I feel this is it. 4000m elevation with altitude is no small deal. Plus for any activity/event that span over 4 hr you are in a tricky position because you will inevitably skip a meal. It's really tricky to calculate the calories in this situation, because the usual 60g or 100g /hr is under the presumption that you have covered your basic calories in the form of meal while during the activity you only have to worry about the extra energy expenditure from the activity. Even if you have that sorted out, whether or not you body can accept it while doing zone 4 zone 3 effort is another topic. To me this happens a lot even if it's relatively low intensity activity. It happens on long hikes, even long road trips. When you skipped the meal usually you'll fell OK for a long while but then near the end you'll be in a unrecoverable state that no matter what you eat you just couldn't get out. For me that point is usually around 8 hrs when it's low intensity hike like activity. In theory this is zone 1/2 that you should be able to go forever, but man it's not. I think the current unbelievable performance of the pros is largely related with the new approaches in nutrition. Probably you should next hire a coach to train your stomach.
👏👏👍👍❤❤
@tristantakevideo is your left-to-right power imbalance fairly consistent around 52%/48%? I have a similar imbalance and I guess it makes sense cause I used to play basketball in previous life and for a right-handed player, you jump off the left leg more often, so muscle is likely stronger. I just like to be symmetrical ;-)
I actually couldn’t tell you..I’ve been running a single sided power meter for the last few years, until I got my Assioma pedals recently. But in the first few rides I did notice that difference, but couldn’t necessarily explain the reason.
@tristantakevideo next time you see Ben, you could ask him what his is. 😉 Curious if the pros have an imbalance (probably) and how much it might be. That's why amateurs should not look at data, it just makes us wonder about the wrong things. 😆
I think Ben’s is 50/50..haha. I’ll make sure I ask though. There are heaps of tiny things most amateurs focus on (me included at times), without putting in place the main building blocks like proper, consistent training and recovery.
@@tristantakevideo for sure. I focused so much on recovery the last 2 weeks that I now have to focus on fat loss for the rest of the year 😂
Hahah you need some up and downs throughout the year to keep the training interesting right?
It is mind blowing how strong the pro riders are... even after 2-3 weeks of racing.
They are not humans, pros is a different race of beings
The only thing pros and weekend warriors have in common is the equipment.
It's mind blowing.
Yeah, they’re definitely incredible athletes.
The domestiques in TDF are national champions in their respective countries.
how did ya'll get back to Nice? Back to your cars.
I rode the 90k’s back..it was all downhill and then flat thankfully. Many people had family or friends drive up to collect them.
How do you fix your insta360? Mine is always falling
Which cameras he is using to record?
I think NorCal cycling made a video on exactly that, very recently
Just remember your mind gives out first before your legs.
So how many thousands of riders did you pass on the climbs?
Straight to 10min 10secs of the music
Don’t worry, nothing interesting happens before then anyway.
Embarrassing? That's rubbish brother, you did better than 95% of the human population on this planet 😅
I started crying upon mere mentioning of 135 km, 4000 m elevation 😀😀😀
I'd say 99%
I am an Algerian cyclist and I need your help in explaining some of the obstacles that I find in the training programs that you explained in a previous video by your personal trainer. Please respond, thank you.😢😢
What sorts of obstacles are you finding?
@@tristantakevideo Including training on integration, knowing that my specialty is long climbs, and I also need to explain what to do the week before the race
@tristantakevideo I thank you for your efforts, thanks to God and thanks to you, my levels have improved for the better and I am currently close to joining our team.
the sunscreen you advertise in your video contains octocrylene. it's better than not having suncreen at all, but there are better products.
Nice vid but pls fire the guys responsible for the music.
... the Pros also had NINETEEN stages in their legs BEFORE doing this stage - so your comparison while defendable is not accurate
It’s a TH-cam video. I wouldn’t take it so seriously.
You finished 😉