Hunter Allen, coach of Daniel Lloyd (GBR) will do daily analysis of Daniel Lloyd's Data during this year's Tour de France. More information about Hunter and is company The Peaks Coaching Group check www.PeaksCoachingGroup.com Hunter is the co-author of the book, "Training and Racing with a Power Meter".   A tough stage no matter who you are in the peloton. Daniel had a very tough section about 30 minutes into the stage. It was the hardest 15 minutes of the Tour for him with his Normalized Power at 405 watts! Very intense, with lots of attacks and hard efforts over 3 small hills. Amazing to think that the hardest 15 minutes of the Tour for Daniel came on Stage 17, but that just goes to show how after 17 stages, Daniel can still produce a very high wattage with all the fatigue in his legs. Daniel also rode very hard, at his FTP over the Col De Marie Blanque in order to help Carlos Sastre on the other side of the climb. He averaged 365 watts for the whole climb, and 376 watts on the steepest part, which is very close to his FTP.
Once he was over the Marie Blanque climb and Carlos was safe, then Carlos attacked the peloton in a vain attempt to connect to the breakaway up the road. On the Col Du Soulour with Carlos away, Daniel rode in the groupetto up the climb and then cruised up the Tourmalet as well. Only needing to finish within the time cut was the goal today." Download the file