With powermeters being used throughout the pro peloton, it is interesting to hear about and see what the pros are exactly capable of and it is unbelievable.
Example #1: Taylor Phinney, 2012 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, 400 watts for 3 hours, 371 watts normalized power for the entire race!
Example #2: Simon Gerrans, 2012 Milan-San Remo, 1,188 watts to hold Cancellara's and Nibali's wheels up the Poggio, 400 watts over the final 2km while sitting behind Cancellara (who was probably somewhere north of 550 watts), topped off with a 1,300-watt sprint at 60kph after 300km to take the win!
For those of us amateurs out there with powermeters, these numbers are astronomical. Sure, no problem to win a pro race, right? Easy peasy.
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