Ian Stannard’s Stage 3 solo win at the Tour of Britain is now on Strava.
Team Sky’s Stannard won by 1:46mins, on his local roads, from chasers Kristian House and Graham Briggs on the stage from Congleton to Tatton Park, Knutsford, both in Cheshire. Strava clocks the distance at 178.6km (111 miles).
The route featured a large loop taking riders into the Peak District, including the climb of the Cat & Fiddle above Macclesfield, before racing back through Knutsford to the finish in Tatton Park.
The route took in 1,577m of elevation gain and Stannard’s Strava time was 4:14:37hrs, although his official race time was 4:14:12hrs. Either way, his average speed was just over 42.2km/h (26mph). His average power is 301 watts and his maximum is given as 1,915 watts.
Stannard took loads of KOMs, but not the Cat & Fiddle climb (below).
Around 30 riders are uploading to Strava during the Tour of Britain. Uploads from yesterday’s stage include:
Kristian House
Graham Briggs
Ian Bibby
21 thoughts on “Ian Stannard’s Tour of Britain stage win on Strava”
Power
Power
Ave: 301
Max: 1915
Interesting one to me is the cadence at 85. Thought it’d be higher than that!
I see a lot more Strava KoMs
I see a lot more Strava KoMs on that ride, and they’re the ones that count, right?
That was a seriously impressive ride! He was asked afterwards about the Strava KoMs and whether anyone would be able to beat them. His thought was that the descents, on closed roads, following a police motorbike, would be hard to beat!
Somehow I’d managed not to pick up on his nickname of “Yogi Bear” until yesterday. That made me laugh – too accurate! When they were both with Sky, that must surely have made Richie Porte “Boo-Boo”?!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Boo-Boo_Bear.png
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/525e73e3e4b0fb1ebe6f337e/t/5697dbe7b20943f1333d2375/1452792809017/
Tell me there isn’t a resemblance! 🙂
Good day out yesterday, great
Good day out yesterday, great atmosphere amongst the fans, and Stannard totally bossed it.
Must give Wiggo a call out for the amount of time he spent signing autographs for the kids (big and small) at the start.
Bloody pros ruining Strava!!
Bloody pros ruining Strava!! 😉
There’s a hill section I really like on one of my routes and I’m determined to climb the table. Sadly I’ll never get anywhere near the top since Scott Thwaites had killed it up there at some inhuman average. I didn’t feel so bad when I saw him leading the Vuelta the other day.
Shocking how fast FAST is though.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Oh, I dunno, there’s a small hill round my way, about 17-20%, which the ToB went up last year. My time is faster than Michal Kwiatowski and Alex Dowsett!
My heart rate was probably about 50bpm higher though!
Good for a chuckle anyway! 🙂
The Strava flyby feature is
The Strava flyby feature is quite entertaining for yesterday. Shows me and a whole host of other random dots all converging on the Brickworks climb, all pausing there for a bit then all splitting up and belting out on the Cheshire lanes to Tatton Park via about 6 different routes and then all congregating again along the final 1km. All pauses for a bit then everyone drifts away in little random clumps, you can see where people have stopped at cafes on their run home.
It looks cool playing it at about 300x speed.
Good stage yesterday, the crowds out all along the route were insane, SO many people!
It would be nice to be able
It would be nice to be able to filter the segments to remove the Pros (or see them only). Not that any are keeping me from KOMs, just 100+ other riders
Yeah actually, Strava should
Yeah actually, Strava should add that option. Good thinking, might suggest it on their forums.
People have been suggesting
People have been suggesting that for donkeys. There’s even a Youtube channel where they send this guy who’s like the cycling equivalent of the Stig to so a Strava KOM segment. Each episode they basically pick a KOM that’s owned by a pro and use the guy to demolish it. Not sure who the rider is but he has an incredible physique and puts out frightening power figures.
Looked that up and found this
Looked that up and found this:
Could be more shows like this, but seems like the one you’re talking about. Loving it. Gonna sub. Some sort of track sprinter local hero maybe? Guy’s a machine
There’s a guy in the Glasgow
There’s a guy in the Glasgow area who holds all the local KOMS and on Stage 1 on sunday he actually held onto a lot of them or was only nudged off the top by a couple of seconds.
Without wanting undermine the
Without wanting undermine the guy in the Glasgow area’s ‘achievements’ – if people want to get competitive about how fast they can ride then they should buy a licence, pin a number on, and prove it. Everything else is nonsense.
Chris James wrote:
No worries, you can’t undermine him without stealing his KOMs. Feel free to try.
So tell us, why is time trialling nonsense. Seeing how fast you can go is the purest, if not one of the oldest, most respected forms of racing in all disciplines.
Or how about we get you and this ‘nonsense’ guy from Glasgow together for a race. I want to see you show him up for all of his nonsense.
We can all chip in, pay the transport costs for the two of you. I’m sold, who’s in.
unconstituted wrote:
It’s not always comparable, though. If the pros weren’t “trying” on those segments, perhaps because they knew they had another seven days racing to go and they don’t care about strava KoMs, whereas this guy is purposefully blitzing it to hit the top of the leaderboard and can perhaps take things 20 miles at a time when he feels like it, then it’s not the same.
That’s not to say he’s not a good cyclist, nor that strava is worthless compared to actual racing… The truth is they’re different things.
Kristian House holds the KoM on The Wizard climb in Alderley Edge. He didn’t get it in the breakaway on Tuesday, he got it on a training ride last year when he did 4 repeats of the climb, presumably with the traffic in the mix to boot. Definitely not the same thing.
vonhelmet wrote:
Don’t agree with the ‘everything else is nonsense’ view, but equally, Strava isn’t everything!
I do think many of the KOM holders on Strava who only race virtually actually have great potential to start racing or at least entering TT’s. Much of this potential is sadly untapped. Ditto many decent sportive riders. I guess that’s where a good club can help with encouraging and mentoring strong riders to enter their first race. Making the jump to competitive racing, where you can reliably compare efforts and ability, can seem a little daunting.
Chris James wrote:
Really? You say that without knowing anything about this fella. As far as we know he could be the local TT champion or Hill Climbing champ. Theres plenty of clubs in Glasgow churning out some seriously good cyclists.
giff77 wrote:
Yes, and if he is then he will have pinned a number on and shown it in a race, like I suggested.
Equally he could be driving around on a moped.
Holmes chapel was ace
Holmes chapel was ace yesterday, I dont think the village has ever seen so many people at once!
None of this stuff is
None of this stuff is profound though. SIlly that we have to even discuss it.
Pros weren’t trying their best time on every segment – who knew!
Strava and organised racing are different – who knew!
Strava KOMs are held by people of varying race level ability – who knew!
Maybe best ignore any ‘Strava times are nonsense’ comments else we descend into churning out blatantly obvious statements at each other
I agree on the potential
I agree on the potential argument. I reckon I could win a shed load of 30 second slight incline sprint competitions.
Excellent. I was on a little
Excellent. I was on a little rise after the Cat And Fiddle descent. I was surprised how slow the breakaway seemed to be going. Looked like they’d had a tough day. Now I’ll be able to find out how fast 🙂