tom danielson

Del Toro had a great performance and while maybe many would expect a podium, the fact that he was missing just a little bit at the top of the Ganda checks out. First off he has been racing non stop this Fall including three times this week (winning two and helping Tadej win…

Remco appeared today to be at perhaps the highest level he has been at this season on the climbs. Looking at his body position in the climb he seemed within himself before Tadej attacked. After Tadej took off it seemed like he purposely held back to have more on the flats where…

I feel performances like today from Tadej show he is mainly motivated by his own personal performance progression. While there is so much talk around race records being broken, I think he is driven instead by the records of what his body can do. He rides his plan, and pushes the…

Incredible ride from Quinn Simmons showcasing his enormous physical engine today in Il Lombardia. Never in the peloton, he averaged 346w (385w normalized) for the entire 6 hour race. Everyone talks about Tadej’s zone 2 power numbers but Quinn might be able to win that race…

I love how Neilson Powless raced, going all in to try and follow Del Toro on both of his attacks. It’s no secret how strong Del Toro has been riding and it would be easy to mark the others. I hope he has a good race Sat and is in contention for the top 5/ podium.

You do realize he literally risked it on the downhill so much that the riders behind him gave him a gap to be safe. This is how he got the initial gap. So yes, he puts on a show by taking risks, and he definitely doesn’t have to.

Let’s be real. He is winning the most chaotic races with the most flashy and risky strategies. In fact, of all the dominant athletes he is by far the most colorful with the way he keeps trying, and doing. In sport, and in cycling there is always a “favorite” and that team or…

I think winning races the hardest way possible and in ways people rarely have won them before is far from boring.

Got the traditional Italian TV motorbike assist there not that he needed it. He smartly blasted the corners and then got the pull out of them with the motorbike while Quinn did not. I think without it Quinn would have closed the gap. Nothing would have changed as Tadej went nuts…

I would say he was checked out after the Vuelta so this was not a good indication of how he can perform. He has all the characteristics to do well in a one day race and perhaps next year we will see him in Flèche and Liege. Actually I think participation in those races would be a…

Well MDVP has cracked the code on how to beat him. That is pick a race that 100 percent follows your strengths and train the specific efforts you anticipate he will use to beat you. MDVP could do the crazy longer VO2 efforts and repeating them. MDVP was also ready to go far out.…

This idea is a bit “PlayStation” as the first parts of these races everyone is so fresh it wouldn’t even be Tadej or his team covering. Everyone would. So the strongest rivals would not get any separation while wearing themselves down. This might even make the place where Tadej…

It is because he plans his moments to attack at the highest crunch point in the race. This is why you are seeing such long solos as the place he goes is the hardest moment in the race followed by relentless challenging sections. It’s a “check mate” situation as the riders that…

No, it is about focus on specific technique, specific strength, and specific training on the key efforts. Using the Remco example, look at how Remco performed massively better in the Worlds TT than Tadej just days before Tadej beat him in the RR. This is because he has spent more…

I will need to do a podcast on this but this phenom is a phenom now because he masters and innovates in key areas. If you rewind you will see a talented young rider with potential, but not leaps and bounds ahead as he is now. He did not win like he wins now and when he did he won…

I think is pacing off his zones and not the gap behind. While it might look easy on TV it’s still super hard for him. He is out there riding the zones in a way he has trained and there are not many more options for him at this point in the race. We have seen races where others…

I think they are trying. This is why he does his attacks from so far out, off of such hard moments. He sets up a “check-mate” situation while everyone is scattered all over drowning in the lactate sea of doom.

Also if you are wondering why Remco loses a bunch of time at first in both Worlds and Euro champs, but then holds it stable, even bringing the gap down in the end? Could the answer suggest changing strategy would be better? When Tadej attacks Remco has gone too deep trying to…

I am going to disagree with this. I think he makes a plan with the races and stages that favor him. He knows exactly where, how, and with what attack that he will use and how he will use his team. Sure he lets on that he rides so instinctively, but if you look at each race he is…

I made this video to share some insights on how pros like Tadej use standing and seated attacks. Of course today he mixed the two into another variation which was a more controlled standing into seated attack into a higher standing then back to seated attack. So the length of the…