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towards better understanding of "hard" efforts
Link
trainingpeaks.com
Here's Hunter Allen's discussion of Greg Henderson's winning efforts in AToC. Of interest: the concepts of Training Stress Score and "matches." A TSS of 300 is a HARD ride. A "match" is an effort substantially above threshold for 1 to 30 minutes. Put those two together and you can begin to estimate how much a stage took out of a rider.

