Hello,
I got the problem that if i wanna peak for the Giro it can only be selected as a target for the second period of the season. What target would you suggest to pick as a target for the first period of the season, so that after that it is enough time for a new build up? And what will happen if i just choose the first race (maybe TDU) as my first target?
for GC contenders, I usually choose Paris-Nice or Tirreno-Adriatico before Giro d'Italia as target, and it works quite well.
Never tried to target TDU with one of my riders...
If you are playing Pro Cyclist you can manually adjust your planning to peak for Giro, independently of the objectives you choose at the start of the season. Also make sure you don't peak during the classics or you won't have time to recover for another peak during the Giro. You could probably target Paris-Nice or Tirreno as your fist peak, relax for the classics and build form in Romandie to be at 100% for the Giro.
Silkerin wrote:
If you are playing Pro Cyclist you can manually adjust your planning to peak for Giro, independently of the objectives you choose at the start of the season. Also make sure you don't peak during the classics or you won't have time to recover for another peak during the Giro. You could probably target Paris-Nice or Tirreno as your fist peak, relax for the classics and build form in Romandie to be at 100% for the Giro.
This is great but being at 100% form doesn't give the bonus that fitness peak gives (like the 2+ in race day condition)
So how do you plan a fitness peak to be able to do the Giro/Tour double?
But the most important question i would do is: Why 4 sets in calendar for choosing races and only 3 for objectives in the season (which give the fitness peak)?
About your last question, I think mostly they left unchanged the old system of planning races (when you had much more freedom in planning targets for riders), but set just 3 peaks per season with the new fitness system that looks logically more realistic than four peaks.
1, If you want to peak for the Giro, you'll want the fitness peak period to expire in March at the latest. So anything up until Sanremo is ok (but if you do, do more races so that you can trigger it around Strade Bianche). If it expires on 31 March, you can rest a week, do 10 or so races and peak just in time for the Giro.
2. Targeting TDU will mess the system up. You won't get anywhere close to filling the bar up. Right after the first day of TDU, it'll display next objective: Tour de France (in 130 days), but filling the bar continues and will trigger when it hits 100. When the fitness peak ends, he'll start again filling it up for the same objective the second time at the normal time (8 weeks).
3, With the Giro/Tour so close together and early this year, I find only 1 way to peak at both. Set the latest race in the Jan-April slot and plan it so you hit the peak on the day of that race (eg. Liége or Romandie). That way, you can peak for the first 2 weeks of the Giro too, use the last week to prepare for the Tour and of course, set that as the summer objective.
4, I don't know why do they do the things they do. Possibly even Cyanide doesn't know why, or don't care. An old employee may have dreamt the fitness system up after a night in a bar and it was never touched again.
It would be better if the fitness peaks were gotten rid of. There's no such thing as people riding for 4 weeks on a +2 EPO high. In real life even GT riders can only peak for 2 weeks, and even that is stretching their physical limits with a long rest needed before and afterwards. That's why there's only enough time to have 2 peaks in a season. https://www.cycli...s-in-2020/
Yeah, the mandatory 3 fitness peaks is one of the real headscratchers of this PCM era. It's not how scheduling actually works at all, and it forces you don't compromise a lot by stacking races where you shouldn't have to. Very puzzling.
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