PRO VS YOU: THE GAP IS BIGGER THAN YOU THINK | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 602

just how much faster are pro cyclists than all of us average people. We have a pro with us today, Alex Wild. Uh, Alex, good to have you back on the podcast. How you doing? >> Doing all right. Pro seems like a stretch these days, but we'll get [laughter] there. >> We're going to get to that. Uh, you're

still a pro and we actually have the data to prove it. Alex, prior to this episode, I asked you for just some basic data points, your power PRs, rough training volume, and then what I did is I went through and I pulled a big sample of of data. And I want to share this on

screen right now and we can see how a pro cyclist compares to all of us average cyclists. Uh so I'm just going to share my screen. That'll make it easier for you to see it, Alex. Easier for all of us to see it. Uh and here we go. Let's dig into it. Uh so this is

you, Alex. You're the pro on here. Uh even though you just kind of tried to deny it and it didn't work on me. So uh this is a filtered sample of 153 over 153,000 uh athletes that this is looking at. So this is a very very big observational analysis that we're doing of athletes, their power PRs, their

training volume basically. But Alex, kind of like how you and I talked about when I first ran this thing. I just, you know, cuz you run a query and you learn over time how to make them good from the beginning, but then you always need to kind of like refine and check things.

And I was looking at your 60-minute power and then I was like, hm, he isn't in the top three. uh if you were to just take a random 10,00 rider sample, something's up. So then I started digging into it. There was some Yahoo in there with like a 20 lb weight and then