00:00Uphill time tours are a little bit different from time trials on the flat.
00:13The effort and the delivery of power has to be far more precise.
00:18It is a time trial on the flat or a rolling terrain.
00:21If you overreach, if you overcook the motor,
00:25there's enough momentum, enough speed that you can take a minute to recover.
00:30In general, on the flat, you try to be easy, you try to not overdo,
00:35but once it goes up, in the end it's pretty steady and they're just pushing all the way.
00:39But a final acceleration is needed on the altitude core as it's so steep,
00:43you just need to have something extra left to reach it to the top.
00:47In an uphill time trial, if you ever overcook the effort, even by a little bit,
00:52there's no possibility to recover.
00:55If it's really hot, it will be super challenging.
01:00Like, you don't have a lot of cooling wind due to the low speed.
01:04If you're on a normal TT, you're going fast 50 per hour, you have the wind to cool.
01:07Now you maybe go 15 on the steepest altitude, just 10 per hour.
01:11No wind, it's all open, no shadow.
01:14The temperature can be a very big challenge.
01:16You feel like it goes on for an absolute eternity.
01:21It will be interesting to see what actually the perfect choice is.
01:26You need to choose what kind of gear, what kind of bike and all the equipment.
01:35It's tricky because, you know, aerodynamics are always more important than weight until 25, 26k an hour.
01:48And then once you're slower than that, then weight becomes more important, right?
01:52So we have to predict accurately what the average speed will be and then make the decisions on the wheels.
01:59It will be just, I'm not sure about exactly, but like 20 to 30 minutes just, so it will be a very hard day.
