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[Simen @simenlokken]

@loland75

[Simen @simenlokken]

@NRegnesentral

Er disse beregningene open-source? Vil gjerne se hvordan dette blir beregnet 🤓

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[Simen @simenlokken]

@Tratnikstan @DrctTim I'm curious, which tactics do you think would have materialized into another outcome? The only one I can think of is several top teams assembling a 15-man group and start to chase. However, I think a group two syndrome would occur pretty damn fast, caring about E conservation.

[Michał Kwiatkowski @kwiato]

If the UCI and the responsible bodies couldn’t make the right decisions early enough, then long-term it’s very bad for cycling that the protesters managed to get what they wanted. You can’t just pretend nothing is happening.

From now on, it’s clear for everyone that a cycling race can be used as an effective stage for protests and next time it will only get worse, because someone allowed it to happen and looked the other way. It’s a shame for the fans who came here to watch a great event. Personally, I would have preferred to know in advance that the race was cancelled rather than being led to believe everything was going to be fine.

See you on the road soon cycling fans❤️
Thank you Team and chapeau to @lavuelta Winners 🙌

[Simen @simenlokken]

@NilsAMortensen @TheisMagelssen Takk for tips! Har dessverre kun Max og ikke kanalen.

[Simen @simenlokken]

Flere som har problemer med Giro-sendinga til Max? Hakker hvert tiende til femtende sekund, både på direktesending og ett minutt bak. Slitsomt 😬

#ESNsykkel @TheisMagelssen

[Simen @simenlokken]

@magnusdrivenes Kjører F. Dversnes seg inn på TdF-laget til Uno-X i dag? Fremstår utrolig sterk både på flatene og i bakkene dag + Tirreno-seieren tidligere i sesongen.

[tom danielson @tomdanielson]

“What’s wrong with Wout!?”

I was caught off guard today by how much negative chatter followed Wout Van Aert’s excellent performance in Brabantse Pijl.

Are many seeing what I’m seeing? Apparently not. So I took a few minutes this afternoon to share my thoughts on his comeback performances—and how they might be pointing to bigger-picture goals that most people are missing.

1. “Wout is washed. His sprint is pathetic compared to his 2021 Champs-Élysées-winning sprint.”
Let’s kick this off with some facts that hit differently.

Ironically, “2021 Champs-Élysées-winning Wout” lost Brabantse Pijl in a sprint to 128-pound Tom Pidcock. Yes, that’s right—the same guy who, in the same year, won the field sprint on the Champs-Élysées got beaten by a rookie pro climber in a sprint.

This year? Wout lost the sprint to Olympic champion Remco… after both of them dropped Pidcock on a climb earlier. That sounds like an improvement over 2021 to me.

Was he exceptional in the Tour de France in 2021? Absolutely. I would expect something similar in 2025.

[Simen @simenlokken]

@MartinVeivaaag Ikke uenig at han burde ha sitti på hjul akkurat der, men jeg synes ikke han kjører utaktisk i dag. Kan hende han han tenkte/hadde fått beskjed om at Stuven var ferdig.

Sykkel-X fortsetter VM i å kritisere Mads P, men han er taktisk smart på oppløpet og belønnes med 2.plass.

[Simen @simenlokken]

Hadde gitt mye for bare 5% av mentaliteten og offensiviteten Mads P har 👀🇩🇰

[max @Max15236]

Mads Pedersen 2025

[Simen @simenlokken]

Wærenskjold er den kaldeste og deiligste fisken i hele feltet!

[Simen @simenlokken]

@DavideHansen Rett og slett grisedeilig! More to come fra Cort i år 👀

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Vo2max, High Intensity Interval Training, Norwegian Method, Tabata Sprints, & on & on.

There's a lot of fancy sounding advice in the social media fitness world. And a lot of it is misguided. Let's correct.

This is my Fitness Influencer Survival Guide:

When they say "sprint"...

Ignore it unless it's something that takes less than ~8 seconds and has long recovery.

Usually what they mean to say is run hard, or about 800 to mile pace , especially if the interval is from 20-90sec in length.

When they say "all out"...

Unless we're talking about a race, ignore it. What they really mean to say is your best average over the workout...but still leave one rep in the tank. So try to run 4x1mile where every mile is within +/- 5 seconds of each. A dramatic slow down is not good.

When they say HIIT...

They mean something kind of hard. There's a wide variation in interval training. And the specific matter.

HIIT is just a catch all that means everything from 200s at 800 pace to 3k repeats at critical velocity and everything in between.

It's a fancy word for "hard workout"

When they say Sprint Interval Training (SIT)...

They mean a hard and fast workout...but not actual sprinting.

We'd call this work speed endurance in track. Something like 4x150m at 400m pace with a couple minutes rest.

When they Tabata sprints are great...

They're not. They are the Pert Plus of intervals. Mediocre at two things. There are many better options.

First, the original intenisty (170% Vo2max) is too hard for most. People just practice falling apart.

Instead, if you need a short fast workout, do 8 to 10 x 30sec at mile pace with 60 sec recovery. As you adapt, decrease rest or increase reps.

Or if you want short rest, do a few sets of 8x100m with 20-30sec rest at 800-mile pace.

When they say the Norwegian 4x4 protocol is the best for raising Vo2max...

It's not. It takes one study that compared a few intervals. Guess what, Seiler's research found 4x8min better than 4x4, while Billat found 30sec on/off better than 3min reps, and any other number of other studies found different workouts increase VO2max more.

And guess what? None of that maters. Because research sucks at studying workouts. Why? It's artificial. It takes people and makes them do the same workout 2-3x a week for 6-8 weeks. No one does that in the real world. It's not generalizable.

So what? There is NO best workout. Your best workout if you care about VO2max is to mix it up...
-do some short and fast (10x200m w/ 200m jog @ 3k-1mile pace)
-medium- 6x800 @ 5k-3k pace w/ 2min rest
-longer and a bit slower- 4x2k @ 15k-10k pace w/ 2min rest
-Tempo/Threshold- 2x10min at half-marathon pace
-And lots of easy slow running

And adjust the workouts as you go. You want to manipulate rest length, speed, rep distance, sets, rep number, and more as you go. That's how you adapt.

Repeating the same exact workout over and over is what we did in the 1950s.

So what? Vary it up.

When they say Vo2max is the best indicator for health and longevity...

What they really mean is aerobic performance!

That's right, nearly all the research on longevity uses PERFORMANCE, not actual VO2max.

They either use the speed you reach at the end of a treadmill test, what your heart rate is during a standardized submax test, or some other performance metric.

In other words: You are better off seeing what you can run in a mile or 5k (or equivalent test in rowing, cycling) than a Vo2max test.

Why? Because performance encompasses more than just VO2max, which is generally more centrally limited. A 5k time trial give you a decent idea on both peripheral and central contributors to aerobic performance.

What's this mean? Stop trying to improve VO2max (it levels off much earlier than performance). If you care about health and want a decent indicator, just try and get a bit faster over 5k. Or make your standard hard workout feel a bit easier.

When they say Zone 2 is the best...

They really mean easy or slow running. That's it. There is no magic in zone 2.

In fact, all the training zones are just markers to help classify training. You do not actually enter a different 'zone' where the adaptation is completely different.

It's a rough guess to say, most of the work in this area kinda helps at Y. But that's it.

The reason elite runners spend a lot of time in zones 1,2, and 3 is that they need to accumulate a lot of volume in easy to kind of easy paces to get long term aerobic adaptations.

Life isn't going to end if you do some of those runs in zone 1, or venture into zone 3 on a typical run.

In fact, varying it up is the point. It's why you'll see elite runners do some runs at 7min pace, and then other days they're feeling good and clicking off sub 6 for a standard day.

So when it comes to zone 2, think: accumulate a lot of easy to steady mileage. That's it.

Focus on Zone 2 and 5. That's your biggest bang for your buck.

Nope. All zones matter. If you care about performance you need to span the gamut from jogging to nearly sprinting.

If you care about health....guess what? Same thing just to a reduced load.

If all you do is zone 2 and 5...you're missing out on stimulus for important adaptations. You need all of them.

And guess what...you can blend and mix them in the same workout as well. Do 15 minutes at threshold followed by 6x400 at 3k pace. Or whatever combo you want.

So what?

Follow the training poem:

Mostly Easy
Some moderate
Occasionally hard and out of breath
A bit of fast and smooth
Vary it up.
And very rarely...Go see God

Do that for months and years, and you'll be fine.

[Simen @simenlokken]

@braaannigan Probably very similar. Haven’t tested it yet but will have by next week.

[Simen @simenlokken]

@BergeW Helt enig. Ironisk at hun som gjennom hele sesongen har vært et offer for forferdelig lagtaktikk i SD Worx, er nettopp den som som ødelegger for Nederland i dag.

[Simen @simenlokken]

@magelssen_chr Congratulations! Fun to see that skills you require during a sports-related acdemic field are appreciated out there. Good luck 🙌🏻

[Tommy Lundberg @TLexercise]

1/ This is a summary of my take on the controversy surrounding Olympic boxing. If any facts are wrong, please help me correct them. Sorry for the long thread.

[Simen @simenlokken]

@DavideHansen @MartinVeivaaag Hva baserer du dette på? Tidligere resultater i årets sesong på olympisk distanse?