Stage 6 Training · Pau > Gavarnie-Gedre

Pogačar Shatters the Tourmalet Record at 6.35 W/kg and Rides the Gavarnie at ~6.8 W/kg to Rout the GC

Pogačar climbed the Tourmalet in 43:02, which was over 2 minutes faster than the previous record. The physics work out to roughly 6.35 W/kg and about 420 W. Vingegaard summited in 43:32, 30 seconds down, at 6.3 W/kg and 380 W.

Up the Gavarnie-Gedre, Pogačar dropped the hammer 🔨 at 6.8 W/kg and 450 W, putting 2 minutes in a fading Vingegaard. The Evenepoel/Seixas group climbed at 5.9 W/kg and nearly caught Vingegaard.

Tour de France 2026 · Stage 6

Tourmalet & Gavarnie — The Power Numbers

CoachCat Analysis

Tourmalet

17.1 km at 7.3%

Gavarnie Final

17 km at 3.5%

Rider

Time

W/kg

Watts

Time

W/kg

Watts

Pogačar

43:02

6.35

~420

~28:10*

~6.8

~450

Vingegaard

43:32

6.3

~380

~30:17*

~6.3

~375

Evenepoel

~44:30

6.1

~370

29:38

~5.9

~360

Seixas

44:30

6.1

~365

29:38

~5.9

~355

1 · The Watts/kg It Takes to Win

6.77W/kg

An estimated ~433 W held for ~39 min (sweet spot).

2 · Three Favorites

1Tadej Pogačar
2Jonas Vingegaard
3Remco Evenepoel

3 · Train These Watts — Copy This Into CoachCat

Today's ride: 75 min · Crescendo Climbing Intervals: Aspin, Tourmalet, Gavarnie

CoachCat, build me a 75-minute workout for today modeled on Tour de France Stage 6 over the Aspin, Tourmalet, and the summit finish at Gavarnie-Gedre. Give me 3 Crescendo Climbing Intervals, each proportional to how long the climb takes and building to a crescendo: 8 min Sweet Spot for the Aspin; 12 min for the Tourmalet as 8 min Sweet Spot into 2 min Threshold into 90 seconds of Zone 5 into a 30-second Zone 6 finish; and 9 min for the Gavarnie as 6 min Sweet Spot into 90 seconds of Threshold into 1 min of Zone 5 into 20 seconds of Zone 6 into a 10-second all-out sprint to the line. 5 minutes recovery between climbs, scaled to my FTP, current LEVEL and OTS, and tell me how to pace it.

What that workout looks like (Aspin: 8 min Sweet Spot · Tourmalet 12 min crescendo: Sweet Spot → Threshold → Zone 5 → Zone 6 · Gavarnie 9 min crescendo: Sweet Spot → Threshold → Zone 5 → Zone 6 → 10-second sprint):

EnduranceSweet SpotThresholdZone 5Zone 6Recovery

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