After that little 100km attack we witnessed yesterday, I found myself watching parts of an interview Tadej did with Peter Attia recently. I’m going to dive deep into that this week, but here are a couple of highlights for you data junkies. I hope it doesn’t depress you too much.

Peter asked Pog what his wattage is when in Zone Two…are you ready? 320w to 340w. To be fair, he did seem to indicate that Zone Two is flexible, i.e. your Zone Two when you go out for 2 hours is not the same as it is when you do 5 hours (I need to think about this). When he rides 5 hours he knocks that down to 290w! Yes, 290w for 5 hours…on a training ride. I am pretty sure my highest-ever FTP is not even that high.

Another humorous takeaway is that his VAM is around 1700 when climbing. He did say it was this when doing a 20 min climb, so maybe it’s less when going up Ventoux. I’d say it is because if you did Ventoux with a VAM of 1700 you’d climb it in well under an hour. Find this handy piece of data on your cycling computer and go out and climb something 8%, then compare.