Tour of North Georgia Road Race and Criterium Recap, TONGA 2024

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👋🏽 If you're new to the channel, welcome! Check out some other training resources below, especially our new Training Plans page! https://www.evoq.bike/training-plans In this video I recap the Tour of North Georgia: how base training helped with big finishing moves, our overall tactics, especially for GC, and lessons learned. Some extra notes are below. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:12 Comeback from Injury and Building Fitness 04:40 Goals for Tour of North Georgia 06:35 Road Race 1 & Habersham Hills Climb 11:35 Importance of Intervals & Going Hard at Right Times 14:15 Road Race 2 & Finishing Move 17:50 Time Trial Pacing 20:55 Crit Strategy & Andrew/Craig's Battle 25:18 Power Numbers from Crit 26:10 Shoutouts & Intro to Training Plans Habersham Hills 10m in 1. Don’t focus on just KOM times and power….look at how hard the race is overall, and the efforts that come directly after other efforts. 514 for 3.5minutes isn’t crazy, but midway during the race after going over KOM climb and then hitting it….different vibe. It’s WHEN you go, not always HOW you go. 2. teammate vibes- countering each other 3. go hard and still ride at threshold…the DRAG race up some climbs (lactate clearance work) Rock Church: Practice your finishing move!!Practice conserving watts!How does the body feel? Road Race , Finishing move: 3m at 550W NP at hour 3, about 3000kj in….literally minutes after doing 7m @ 373NP 373Np for last hour last 11min @ 445WNP Time Trial: PACING: threshold +Go hard on the hills - 3rd fastest time of the day Just 2 minutes below threshold! Turn around and corner and downhill recovery last 4minutes at 465W, threshold is about 400 right now “last 4 minute image” Crit: we actually won GC! Count the points diligently, our error not to! Shout out Mark Tucker for honesty on the start line Tactic: Get one of us up the road without Tucker and win all sprints 🚀TrainingPeaks Store Programs: https://tinyurl.com/TP-Store 💥Ketones, Delta G Tactical: https://tinyurl.com/DeltaGKetones CODE Brendan for 15% off 😈 Lactigo: www.lactigo.com/brendan MORE WATTS and LESS BURN Full Blog With Training Tips: www.evoq.bike/blog Subscribe to Our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ggRc4n Follow Along on Strava: https://www.strava.com/pros/5889 EVOQ Training Packs: https://www.evoq.bike/training-packs Airofit: https://www.airofit.com/?sca_ref=476545.3AVnm3vdGW Best Chamois Cream: https://www.hellobluecbd.com/, Code Brendan Cordyceps Mushrooms: https://shop.realmushrooms.com?ref=62 Best shades: https://www.julbo.com/en_us/ Calorify: https://calorify.com Discount Code EVOQ Donate to EVOQ.BIKE for all the Free Content: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=U3YMCAUEMQ4PC

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