Well, before setting up my season using the season planner i would like to now how many racedays you could recommend? Is it even possible for any of your riders to ride and be in shape for all three grand tours? (like some riders do irl, sprinters for example)
For youngsters maximum 60, for old guys 80. And race fitness decreaces if race days are over 60 so watch that your leaders arent over 60 race days during your important races.
Bosskardo wrote:
For youngsters maximum 60, for old guys 80. There is this rumor that you can destroy the evolution of young riders, if they race to many day. The max. would be 40 days if you want to believe them. (Read manual page 21)
And race fitness decreaces if race days are over 60 so watch that your leaders arent over 60 race days during your important races. How could you do that if you want to performe well in all three GTs? (That was his question)
Those riders just won't be in perfect shape anymore after the middle of the vuelta, approximatively.
Keep in mind that after sixty days, you just have maximum race fitness which is gonna go down.
In my career, I have my leader at 78 days on WC RR, he has a maximum of 6 race fitness.
He could still have 86 fitness if I didn't make such a bad planning
(Actually he has 80, with 74/74 + 6/6, and just won WC TT)
That means that yes, you can do all GT's with a rider, even a leader. In fact, you can even win all of them if you handle well, considering than mountainous stages in vuelta end up around 13th or 14th stage in 2009.
But you will have a race fitness at 0/0 at the end of the vuelta, for sure.
I think I would do several preparation races before Giro (10 days at least, just before), considering hard things starts really soon, while making a very few preparation races before Tour. And a bit, not as much as for giro, but more than for Tour before Vuelta.
Globally, you should'nt make more than 20 days outside of GT's if you want towin the 3 of them I think.
And also don't forget that Fitness have way less influence on sprint carac than on Mountain, Hill or Rec
Snoopies01 wrote:
I am sure that Leisure camps will extend the number of race days a rider can race.
Can anyone confirm this?
not race days but they lower fatique. Very useful when a rider peaks in the start and end of the season then you can have leasure camps after the first peak.
