Jay Vine is the proof that the path into professional cycling has changed. He won the Zwift Academy from his pain cave and rode it into a WorldTour contract, then into Grand Tour stage wins. For the amateur grinding away on a smart trainer, he's the clearest example yet that watts measured indoors are real watts — and his reflections on how easing his training load made him faster cut against the more-is-better instinct most amateurs share.
The major positions Vine is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Jay Vine on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 4 episodes in total.
“the hours I'd say dropped dropped a little bit but they dropped more than what most people would think like before I was probably doing 24 hours a week now I'm doing 20 hours a week on average and you know if you said to most people what do professionals do they'd they'll probably give you a number like 30 hours a week of of actual writing and that's that's just not something that I I end up doing”
“any sort of Technology like that that we can't use that we that we use in training that we can't then use in racing is sort of useless to us because we can't train all year around using a certain metric and then come to the Tour de France and then get told oh we're gonna swap you back to the old system”
“it just estimated my FTP to be ridiculous like contador eating a bad steak sort of ridiculous um which meant that I just couldn't complete any of my sessions um whereas now we're testing a lot more with just FTP stuff and in race uh in race you know 20-minute efforts to to work out FTP that way um which I think is a much better value to to go off because you're going to get the best out of yourself in a race”
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