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I talked with the Hincapie Mafia the other day about George at Tour of California. His wattage numbers for the stage 3 climb --- were 450 Watts for 30 minutes.
Now this is estimated since he was not riding with a power meter but Basso was and Basso is only a kg or two lighter then Big George. So next time you wonder what it takes to keep up with the big name, stars. Climb at 450 and you'll probably either blow up or get a contract.
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Keep in mind that for a big guy like George (~79 kg), that's 5.7 watts/kg. For a smaller rider that weighed in the 140 range you'd "only" have to put out in the range of 355 watts to maintain an average of 5.7 watts/kg. Either way, 30 minutes of that would be enough to send anyone to Pain-Town
Posted by: Yonatan Lang | April 05, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Basso is apparently 70kg, so does that mean that if basso was putting put 450watts (>6.4w/kg) then george was putting out >505 watts (excluding aero stuff) ?
Posted by: Tuney | April 25, 2007 at 10:20 AM
No Basso's numbers from his SRM where 405 watts so they "computed" George's numbers to 450 from the weight difference and ascension time. I have been told there is some website or spread sheet that you can access that comutes this for you (in german I was told...). If anyone knows it please send a link to me.
Posted by: steve wagner | May 01, 2007 at 10:18 AM