Remco Evenepoel reveals his threshold power in new training video
Remco Evenepoel posted a video to his YouTube channel where he revealed his threshold power ahead of next month's Tour de France is 425 watts. In the video, which covers two days of Evenepoel's routine at an altitude camp in Tenerife, the Tour hopeful is shown with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe coach Dan Lorang doing intervals on Mount Teide and discussing goals.
"With 420 [watts] we would be under threshold," Lorang tells his charge after taking a blood lactate reading. "425, we are somewhere there when we talk about the long effort, so it's perfectly matched." Evenepoel is on a 68-day break between his last race – Liège-Bastogne-Liège on April 26 – and the July 4 start of the Tour de France.
Aside from intel about Evenepoel's power curve, the 22-minute video is worth a watch to see how Evenepoel approaches recovery and, especially, fueling (he uses the Food Coach app, which interestingly is a product developed by rival Visma-Lease a Bike team). And it may be the last time we see Lorang in a Remco video, as the coach is moving on to Lidl-Trek where he'll take a substantially similar role there.
