"The Battle for Sa Calobra" - How long can I ride at Tom Pidcock's KOM pace?

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There is no doubt, I loved tackling Sa Calobra again. Even more so when a champ like Tom Pidcock is the rider you have to chase down at the top of the Strava Leaderboard! So much fun and very inspiring!
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@edlaverack Ай бұрын

A follow up video taking all about my training leading up to this. I hope there are some things you can use in your own cycling : ❤How I climbed Sa Calobra in 24 minutes // The Training and Preparation kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKl5pNyLr7Wpoac.html

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

It would really mean a lot if we could make this video the most watched episode on the channel! 57k views to beat from the previous Sa Calobra video! Help me achieve that by sharing, liking, subbing and commenting below. TY :)

@stevenfreeman7798 Ай бұрын

Brilliant effort Ed well done!. You should be proud!!. Thousands and thousands of people attempt this climb to be 2nd only behind a classic winning top professional is an incredible achievement!!.

@crankgreenwatts Ай бұрын

Amazing Ed 🙌 This editing brought a tear to the eye 😢 You have a very humble, inclusive, approach to what you do that makes you a stand out ambassador for the sport 🙌 I reckon Tom would go for it with you together, as a collab, as seems so down to earth; obviously schedules aligning 🤞 Lets go #EdMode 🚀 And hope you both have an amazing vacation 💑

@jamesprince8753 Ай бұрын

FANTASTIC! Bravo Ed 🤩. Thanks for the show, insight to the numbers and really great overlay to the effort.

@MichaelThorne_za Ай бұрын

The suspense! 😅 Well done. Great personal record and some awesome footage. 👏

@stephane_g78 Ай бұрын

Well done! Epic and really inspiring as usual. And that intro 👌

@philballphotography Ай бұрын

Its great to see you set a new PR! Well done.

@paultowns9880 Ай бұрын

Chapeau Ed. Fantastic effort and a great video.

@ewanmackenzie6777 Ай бұрын

Congrats Ed, well done, you are flying, keep it up Bro!

@jono1457-qd9ft Ай бұрын

Good warm up Ed. Now you're ready for the big effort 😊

@johnmcculloch1050 Ай бұрын

Well done Ed, fantastic effort 👏👏👏

@martinandrews2860 Ай бұрын

Excellent effort. Excellent vid. My HR rose just watching it. Well done. Amazing. M

@petegrundy8508 Ай бұрын

Phwoahh!! Super work 💪🏻💪🏻

@tarandcementcyclingwithatt3809 Ай бұрын

Ed you are The Man,well done☘️

@bigt2794 Ай бұрын

Fantastic effort Ed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@samuelreynaud361 Ай бұрын

Loved it, especially the soundtrack

@ethangodridge6833 Ай бұрын

Great video and effort mate

@patrickaulkemeyer1172 Ай бұрын

Great Effort. You are very inspiring as a person and an athlete❤

@andrew300169 Ай бұрын

Amazing effort, well done.

@byronhardin6472 Ай бұрын

Great effort Ed, well done

@ridley8340 Ай бұрын

Great ride Ed well done, I know how that feels.

@veloperformance Ай бұрын

Cracking PB up there. Respect 👏👏

@JSC131 Ай бұрын

Phenomenal effort Ed well done the welsh were behind you.

@robdavies6041 Ай бұрын

Brilliant ride Ed 👏

@alainpfammatter8224 Ай бұрын

Congrats for the fantastic result 👍👏

@craigjok Ай бұрын

Congratulations on this awesome effort.

@davieislay Ай бұрын

The epitome of a happy cyclist! Great ride. 👏👏👏

@stevemiell4555 Ай бұрын

Phenomenal effort & congrats on the PB, can't wait for the Ventoux vids, it's a different beast from Sa Calobra!

@williamstevens2382 Ай бұрын

Congrats!

@user-fy6nj1wf5v Ай бұрын

Brilliant Ed

@bicivini Ай бұрын

Awesome performance mate 🙌🏽 congrats

@christophecontant4856 Ай бұрын

splendid effort mate you are a super climber

@ShawnIsBatman Ай бұрын

Great effort, congratulations! Now if you get the entire Ineos team give you a leadout up the climb you and Tom can have a true head-to-head comparison.

@-dazz- 15 күн бұрын

Is my little island pretty or what? Great stuff, Ed, fantastic effort. Congrats.

@W60DSC Ай бұрын

Nice one Ed, fantastic PR 🎉 Mind blowing W/kg

@BPM2001 Ай бұрын

aweseme, so much ed power!!

@kennethstewart5778 Ай бұрын

Congratulations Ed, fantastic effort, rode it March 40 mins so 16 min quicker ! Wow! Superb graphics! All best next target 🎉👌🚴

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

16min!! EPIC!!

@Chris-dw3xl Ай бұрын

Wow congrats just amazing

@soulboy78 Ай бұрын

Well played Ed and kudos on getting a PB. Watching this has given me inspiration to try and beat my PB next week albeit 30 mins slower than yourself 🤣🚴👌👍

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

That's what I like to hear!!

@HTB6493 Ай бұрын

Well done mate

@masterfan0 Ай бұрын

Great effort! I love climbs, but as a 95 kg rider, you can imagine I'm slow. You're pushing almost double of my speed with same power. I gotta keep training to push more than now :)

@vladvultur3347 Ай бұрын

Well done bud you need to be proud happy for you cause you could beat your previous pb . 😊

@albandb9366 Ай бұрын

Well done 👍👍

@sebasgood328 Ай бұрын

Epic!! Awesome ride Ed, congrats mate. May I know what program do you use to overlay power/cadence and all that info?

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Thank you! Sure thing, goprotelemetryextractor.com/

@jimmyriddle50 Ай бұрын

Massive well done, fantastic effort!! How could you wait to download until you got back!?!? 😉I look forward to the "Directors Cut Extended Edition". Brilliant cinematography as well, love it.

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Haha! Well, next up will be the full effort overlay with a deep dive in to the training leading up to it. Hopefully gain some people a few seconds themselves.

@jimmyriddle50 Ай бұрын

@@edlaverack Great to hear! Sa Calobra Part Deux (The Return!)

@janjazbec1665 Ай бұрын

Great wffort ed!!

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@paulronan2103 Ай бұрын

welll done Ed

@CycleXplorer Ай бұрын

Back for vengeance! My wife and her friends are cycling up it this weekend. I'll send it on for inspiration!

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Haha! Love to hear it! Hope they enjoy it!

@marek-vm3wb Ай бұрын

Wow nice vid

@jaigeyer9596 Ай бұрын

Respect.

@Cyclingallthetime Ай бұрын

Amazing effort 💪💪. If I could get down to your 61kg, I might beat my pr of 44 mins... 😂

@IanB17 Ай бұрын

Great effort Ed, chapeau 👏🏻 If someone like you can’t beat Tom Pidcock’s time then unless a top pro goes for it the KOM will stand for a long long time. Anything you think you can do different next time (if there is a next time) to go sub 24:00?

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

I reckon a few could beat Tom but It would be awesome to see others try :) To go sub 24 I think I just need another 2years of chipping away, or a better weather day, if we are talking about me improving my time solo. At this level it is literally seconds of improvement.

@samwoodward1647 Ай бұрын

Da iawn boi👊🏼

@Hubertus-ko6yl Ай бұрын

Like hearing from you from Mt ventoux! - En y va.

@Phil-dx8rw Ай бұрын

extremely impressive, 6.4 is incredible

@davidrook3890 Ай бұрын

Great video Ed #EdMode

@thejonesy01 Ай бұрын

Da Iawn Ed 👍

@FoobsTon Ай бұрын

6.5 w/kg. Gulp. I have no words. I can't even imagine how that's possible. 😮 That's my top end 15 seconds sprint on Zwift.

@1Lucaspeixoto Ай бұрын

woooow

@philipk4475 29 күн бұрын

Great video, too bad you didn't answer or even address the question in the title! I was waiting for you to scream up there at 400 W+ to massively explode halfway...

@edlaverack 29 күн бұрын

I didn’t need to. The answer is “of course not!”🙈But because of the speed Tom was doing up there the watts required are actually nuclear. We can make an educated guess that I’d last roughly half way (12min at 420w, 7wkg) and just about be still with Tom. But then I’d blow.

@risky_scalps Ай бұрын

Imagine loosing the file of your ride/climb. Happened to me once😅 a painful memory

@bilginaydin9756 Ай бұрын

2017 efforts looks strange. You improved almost 50 seconds with less power and lower HR within a week? Strong improvement in 5 and 7 years. My PB is 38:01 from 2019. Look forward to your next attempt.

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Those efforts back then were interval sessions on training camp so can't read too much in to them.

@user-qu2zx1fc6s Ай бұрын

Bonkers

@glennicol1361 Ай бұрын

Nice effort! I got a 4iiii power meter recently... Sometimes works perfectly... Sometime disconnects multiple times per minute. Have you had any issues?

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

I have. Firmware issues and tends to happen if I freewheel for a while. I stop sometimes and just pop the cap off and back on as a reset and away I go with no problems. Happens less and less. They are aware of it and working on it by all accounts👍🏼

@glennicol1361 Ай бұрын

Awesome! Will give that a try...Thank you!

@JFomo Ай бұрын

6.4w/kg, amazing effort. I could probably do that climb at around 2.8w/kg 😅

@Saladh_Olivier Ай бұрын

quite sure you could make your bike and kit a bit more optimised for the segment, but that'd still be marginal, and probably wouldn't help to gain. Hats off to Tom he did his PB in Dec. Was or wasn't he paced up the hill I guess that's irrelevant to your personal PB. Great effort nevertheless! It's funny when one wants to hit sub-30 on that climb, another person thinks of sub-24. haha!

@Vismux69 Ай бұрын

You need ceramic speed botom bracket + ceramic speed chain and puleyhjuls then you saving around 20W+

@sobhanmokhtari2016 Ай бұрын

How many years did you try for such a number (ftp)?

@Shadowboost 24 күн бұрын

Jonas could drop another minute on that KOM

@edlaverack 24 күн бұрын

That would be awesome to see tbf. It’s class to see the World Class riders go at their speeds, even though they have bigger fish to fry

@KetzalSterling Ай бұрын

I heard that Tom's effort had a team lead out? Does anybody know if that is true? Wouldn't that be a flagged ride?

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Just echoing what I said above - I've heard all sorts of stories from the locals on the island, but at the end of the day these guys are training to hold on to the best climbers in the world. I'd argue if it was motorpaced/team paced then it's all part of training now to match the likes of Pog/Jonas.

@eteokles3 Ай бұрын

He was riding behind a scooter. 100% confirmed by the numbers.

@__marshie Ай бұрын

Go full lead out and moto draft just to see the difference! Tom must of had some assistance.

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

I'll try that one day for the laughs!

@karlwisdom7267 Ай бұрын

How much calories must one be on per day to be 61kg & pushing 384w ?

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

For 24min it's not a massive energy requirement. But if I was in a race and having to do that effort I would obviously need a lot more!!

@guidonvanonder Ай бұрын

Do we know if tom's effort was motorpaced? He has a history of doing these things :P Re Coll de rates

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

I've heard all sorts of stories from the locals on the island, but at the end of the day these guys are training to hold on to the best climbers in the world. I'd argue if it was motorpaced/team paced then it's all part of training now to match the likes of Pog/Jonas.

@troycollett8540 Ай бұрын

Did Tom do his effort solo or was he paced by INEOS

@eteokles3 Ай бұрын

He was paced by a scooter.

@NA-uu7zc Ай бұрын

How long did he manage to ride at Tom pidcock? 😂 On Apple TV it doesn’t show me the whole title… hahah

@fastestmilkman3840 Ай бұрын

First? 😄

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

You are!!

@fastestmilkman3840 Ай бұрын

@@edlaverack Good job btw, I would arrived 23mins after you. 🤣 If you are doing Ventoux, make sure you pop by Pista in Bedoin for a coffee and food, JS and Kiki are brilliant there.

@fastestmilkman3840 Ай бұрын

@@edlaverack If you are heading to Ventoux, drop by Pista Cafe in Bedoin as it is fab. JS and Kiki are lovely and the food/coffee are fantastic.

@rogersimmons8788 Ай бұрын

I could probably do 23 Watts for 384 minutes.

@stevedouglas3975 Ай бұрын

If getting the KOM is that important, why not drive there, warm up on a turbo and hit it totally fresh. Riding for 2.5 hrs before even getting to Sa Colabra must surely put some fatigue into body even if taking it easy.

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

If I did that I wouldn't hear the end of it haha, everyone knows that riding there and then doing it is the unwritten rule!! The KOM isn't important, what is important is the PB :) Besides, 2.5hr at Z1 is very easy, performing an effort like this for me after a few hours like that is normal.

@stevedouglas3975 Ай бұрын

@@edlaverack Absolutely agree, it wouldn't be the done thing but you know better than most people that this happens all the time with people going for KOMs. Have to say when I rode Sa Colobra last year just getting there nearly wiped me out(!). However I'm a millions miles away from your level. Love the videos btw.

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

@@stevedouglas3975 Thank you Steve. It's all a bit of fun at the end of the day, and damn good training at that.

@ThisIsANameBruh Ай бұрын

Power meter readings from Pidcock and you make zero sense. You did 0.15 w/kg more and gained only a handful of seconds and pidcock did 0.3 more than you and gained a minute and a half?! No way. Either his power meter is way under-reading, your's is way over-reading or Pidcock was motorpaced up the climb. Even with the wind in mind, his time is INSANE for the exact same wattage between you two.

@jono1457-qd9ft Ай бұрын

Different calibrations, but a PB is a PB.

@ThisIsANameBruh Ай бұрын

@@jono1457-qd9ft different calibrations should account for 1% difference not this nonsensical mess

@Cyclingallthetime Ай бұрын

He had the Ineos team leading him up the climb... There's the difference.

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

It's highly likely that the power meters read differently. I can only speak for the accuracy of mine over the years and my previous performances. Tom will be maybe 2kg lighter than me but chances are my bike is 0.5kg lighter. The time difference is massive considering the relative efforts, I can't see myself ever going that speed up that climb ever.

@ThisIsANameBruh Ай бұрын

@@edlaverack that's the thing. If we start believing that power meters can read so completely wrong then idk man, what are we even using them for? I guess consistency is what really matters not absolute values but still... And Shimano meters have been known to exaggerate, not under-read which I assume is the case for pidcock. But difference is still too massive. I'm forced to assume he was paced

@shanelaird9032 Ай бұрын

Why do so many KZfaqrs have the camera inches from their face? 😂

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

Because my arm gets tired when it's miles away!

@shanelaird9032 Ай бұрын

@@edlaverack Train Harder 😂

@tekiccs Ай бұрын

The ride is cool, but you ramble way too much 😄

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

What would you rather see in a video like this? In my opinion we don’t hear enough chat and behind the scenes of things like this. It’s why the videos are quite unpolished.

@simonrano8072 Ай бұрын

How this climb could be a world most popular when a second fiddle like Pidcock beat the time of a nobody ?

@edlaverack Ай бұрын

I wouldn't say it's the world's most popular!

@michaelcripps131 Ай бұрын

Second fiddle? The lad won on Alpe D' Huez, has been a world champ on the MTB. He still has time to develop. Everyone is comparing people to Pog which is ridiculous because there are still some incredibly talented guys out there. Winds me up to be honest.......