Some people need to get a life and stop postulating and writing Kate’s obituary. If she never did anything decent results wise the rest of her life she is still better than anyone in this comment section could ever hope to be. Commenting that a woman (or anyone) is 5 lbs overweight? You’re disgusting! Bagging on people that are doing their best to put out their best result? Sad. I’d love to follow some of you losers around your job for a day and just point out all of your inadequacies, failures, lack of talent, laziness, etc.
She hasn't exactly been respectful towards others herself. This includes women racers, Scott employees, cycling enthusiasts she meets in person, or instagram followers.
By your own criteria, Kate's behavioral and personality flaws make her as big of a "loser" as anyone criticizing her.
People also ask Is Sunland CA a good place to live? It's a fairly safe neighborhood, but scruffy. Neighbors are diverse, many are nice but there are a few bad apples. Some people keep their houses nice and tidy, but most let their houses and yards go, with no pride of neighborhood.
Hello @Willikers, we meet again. You do realise that every comment that you publish gets downvoted? Maybe you should take the hint and realise that you are the problem
Sadly, you’ll see countless negative or derogatory comments on articles about any women’s sport, it’s far from exclusive to XC racing. Little wonder that there’s such a high dropout from sport amongst teenage girls, citing a fear of being judged as one of the key factors.
He went freakin’ nuclear on that sprint, even after leading it out for most of the lap. Pidcock was pretty impressive in the sprint too - after losing position and being several riders back in the group that was gapped from the leading trio he still caught and passed the two guys trying to sprint off Schwarzbauer’s wheel.
Gotta love those XC races - Short course or XCO - with such a strong field of riders the action is 100% guaranteed! What a sprint from Neff. Fingers crossed for the Men now!
I was worried for Rob and Bart going into the last lap of the mens races. They were just yelling names of the 25 riders at the front. They might have been more out of breath at the end than TP was.
You're telling me what to do on the one hand and you're asking me for the answer to a question that you have that came from one of my comments - do I have that right?
@laupe: here's the deal: you can apologize and I'll see if it's sincere. If it is sincere and you don't ever do this to me again I will answer your question.
By doing so I will risk someone else coming at me like you came at me after someone else came at me. Do you understand how that works?
@Willikers: You realise your condition is impossible, right? If you make sure he never does it again before you supply the answer you’ll both just be waiting forever.
@wingguy: well since he already decided to walk into a conversation that was already dead and stir it back up, I'm putting the onus on him to realize his mistake.
I don't know where you're from or what you are culture is but you do not ask someone for a piece of information after you've just told them to shut up publicly.
I'd like to commend the coverage of this race. Feels like action packed even if the track is not, due to the dynamic camera shots. Always moving with fast cuts instead of lingering static shots, multiple angles, crane shots, camera on ATB going side by side the racers, they even have an fpv drone even though it looks crappy.
I don't know if Kate has a path back to the top 10 this season, or any other.
She's suffered a string of concussions and seems much more crash prone than most other riders. The combination of the two means Kate is likely far more conservative and tentative on the bike than during her peak of success: late 2018 to mid 2019.
Power numbers and training regimen aside, it's very difficult to ride fearlessly after experiencing the setbacks Kate has.
This is not to mention how strong the top dozen or so riders are: Mona, Loana, Evie, Stigger, Sina as younger guns, PFP, Jenny, Neff, Terpstra, Rebecca, Keller and Indergand among the more experienced riders.
Kate had her heart set on Olympic Gold, and I don't think she has clear goals now in the midst of a third straight mediocre and frustrating season.
All, It is actually the fork offset on a short frame. Nino ran into a tree last year because of the change from 51 to 44mm and hit a few stumps, no less. Pidcock runs a 51mm as did Lecomte, when she was winning and Vanderpoel (even though he is tall). I don't know if it is an issue with long wheelbase bikes. No first hand experience there.
I have first hand experience with this as I was trying to solve pedal strike and get 10 more mm of travel in the front. Bought the SRAM 3 position SID in 110mm used. Pleasant rides became a curse fest. On a short wheelbase XC bike the steering is so unresponsive you hit everything. To get a 51mm offset I had to copy the guy who won the overall last year and use DT Swiss.
It was worth $1000 to me to wreck less and hit less stuff.
Pidcock, Lecomte, Mattais, Van der Poel, anyone running the SR Suntour fork, and most Fox forks are raced at 51mm offset. If you see more shimano on the podium it might be the fork offset.
If you put Kate on Lecomte's bike from last year (including tires), it is a different story.
As a case study, look at Ulloa who went form a Scott Spark to Massi. He finished in 69th overall last year. This year he is like 11th, so far.
@efontana: I've had pretty bad luck with XC bikes and reduced offset forks. I always go back to 51mm. Not sure if that matters or not, but I agree with you.
@Clink1983: Yeah, the 44mm offset fork turned enjoyment looked forward to into a curse fest. You have to yell at the bike to get it to change lines. Absolutely will not change lines late. For me it might have to do with arm length. It requires so much steerage, and elbow bend that it is not a flick and the bracing angles get all messed up. Neff can win on it, but she wrecks a lot. Lecomte may sort it out tomorrow. If the course has lots of roots and stumps the 44mm will hit more of them. If there are climbing switchbacks, the 44 will run into the high side wall (see Tokyo women's race). If it is a drag race with no late changing lines 44 will be ok.
"She's suffered a string of concussions and seems much more crash prone than most other riders. The combination of the two means Kate is likely far more conservative and tentative on the bike than during her peak of success: late 2018 to mid 2019"
I knew she had one but not multiples. Chicken or the egg I don't know but she definitely had a lot more flow in 2018-2019, rode more free and on a hardtail much of the time.
The last two years she was extremely stiff on her fully but has gotten more relaxed this year. Her sessions with Kintner have helped with that.
Are you kidding me? Her injuries are a speed bump for most mountain bikers/Moto riders. If that’s what holding her back then the proper assessment is “she doesn’t have the mental strength to deal with the realities of bike racing”. I used to be a huge fan, but she’s getting demolished by privateers now. That’s ridiculous.
Ulloa is becoming super consistent, he would have been top 10 in the Brazil XCO also if he hadn't crashed. Nice to see him backing up the win he had in 2020.
Jenny Risvedds mentions she writes something on her arm each race. Today it looks like 'Mor det' when she was crunched up recovering after the race. Translation?
@Willikers: I think she's definitely struggling with the modern course designs and her skillsets haven't caught up. Also, everyone around her got better. I guess training on fire roads in Marin County just isn't enough anymore...
@RogerMexico: and they won't. It's way too late - she squandered so much time during covid not working on her skills. Yep, it's not just one generation but two now that have passed her by. They ALL are good. Look where the best US riders went to school and trained:. Gwinnie in Western CO, Haley in Squamish, Savilia in Durango. A world cup course is normal to them. They all had a lot of time to learn to manage their efforts, sometimes training in the high mountains and figuring out how to descend without dying. What does Courtney do? Gets somebody to film her doing road intervals, then films herself lying on a shoulder breathing hard. Last I looked there isn't a rest area on a wc course.
She never cut the umbilical cord, raised in Marin, school on the peninsula, lives on the peninsula. Hasn't grown up.
She actually has said good results aren't necessarily her goal way back in 2020, only no one notice.
A couple of days ago she said she was using these races as training.
The answer is obvious: she's already semi-retired as an Influencer.
Look at this race:. Doing the classic pro Tour breakaway thing, riding at the front to rep the sponsors, then blowing. Because she's now invisible she decided to throw a whip: look at me!!
@RogerMexico: I don't think the courses have changed much in the past 4 years she's been racing elites. (She's only 26 yrs old.) And have you seen the videos of the steep stuff she rides regularly?
@Willikers: Gibson has been great to watch. I used to live in Western CO and got to see her rip the techier stuff in and around GJ! I'm excited for the young up and comers for the US.
Sparkle has become more of an obnoxious influencer than Batty but, unlike Batty, pretends like she still holds some actual competitive relevancy in the UCI (which she doesn't).
@RogerMexico: cool.. I live in NorCal and have always been pretty bored with most of what we have here, dreaming of techy Sedona, Durango and BC.
Batty was actually a good, consistent rider over x years with a functioning brain while on the course, but I could do without two inches of foundation and a Pcar. She knows where she's at and doesn't try to bs her way through it.
Courtney says things like, I'm glad to be competitive??
Um..you know there is a term for that sort of delusion: gaslighting.
@RogerMexico: I get everything you're saying, and you're kind of right. But.. she does have rainbow stripes on her sleeves. I don't care how many circumstances led to her victory how much someone has slid since then, it's still worthy of respect. It's easy from the side lines as a never-was to call someone a has-been. But they were literally the best in the world at one point when it mattered.
@gbyrne: All fair points. You're right, it is worth of respect and I won't argue against any of that, even though there were many factors weighing heavily in her favor in 2019, as pointed out in another comment below. Obviously I'm not saying she's not an incredibly talent cyclist, of course she is. I just think she's obnoxious...
@Willikers: Braille is a lot of fun, but a techy XC trail? I was going to say any of the stuff at Skeggs, which has a pretty good mix of fast flow and some techier bits.
@gbyrne: The problem is that she rubbed a lot of people the wrong way during her short run of success. She rubbed people the wrong way LONG AFTER her short string of success.
She's an egomaniac, bordering on megalomaniac. She has no sense of humility and attempts to belittle and subordinate anyone and everyone around her.
She has the ego of an all time great and the results of a 2022 era Emily Batty.
@mtb1101: she had the balls to compare herself to Mark Cavendish! Omg.
Cav stated he was clumsy in traditional ball sports like soccer so she took that and ran with it.
"See, I'm clumsy too!"
Only difference is Cav is arguably the Goat, consistently materializing wins out of thin air with, in many cases, fewer watts.
Fer chrisakes he just won a stage at the bloody Giro at 36..
Just this last winter he had a very bad crash in a velodrome, puncturing a lung and breaking ribs. On top of that his home was invaded, his family terrorized and he was beaten..
And she has the monomania to attach herself to this guy
@Willikers: bud, the vibe you’re giving off is that you asked her out and got burned. Proactively coming on here to talk trash about a World Cup-level XC racer makes you look really desperate for her attention.
@GPP2117: geez your pithy nothing comment really got me thinking.. you are right.. Went across the bay to ride up olh.. ran into her.. meaning to say I love you Kate...
@Willikers: there is not a single response from Jolanda to any question about Kate. Is that the point you were trying to make? It's a bit disingenuous to mention the AMA as some sort of 'tell all' about the relationship between Jolanda and Kate, when there is literally no substance to that effect, in that AMA
@Willikers: "Check out J's Reddit AMA - says everything you need to know about what she thinks about her" It says nothing. There isn't a single comment even vaguely approaching what Jolanda Neff thinks about Kate Courtney. You're talking out of your arse
Is Mona Mitterwallner the daughter of the guy who owns Redbull or something? Why do the commentators keep us apprised of her placings every lap and talk about how good she is or isn't about this or that?
I think it's because she's the world and European junior champ and it's her first season in the Elite category. And she had a perfect world cup season last year, so she's one to watch out for...
Great racing for sure, but I can’t figure out why some of these teams don’t race the short track like a crit and use some tactics. How many racers are there from KMc Orbea and Absolute Absolon? Surely they could have used they paved section to move some riders up.
Maybe I’m just not seeing what it means to be a MTB team. Seems like they all race for themselves.
They do. Unlike in a crit there isn't a designated sprinter, the riders' forms can be near equal on any given day. It's also near impossible for a team to control the front, regardless of course.
It's best just to let them fend for themselves - the fastest ones on the day will find advantageous wheels to exploit.
Great race start to finish for the lead group. Any updates on what happened to PFP for the dnf? She was staying with it through the first 4 laps then disappeared.
@gbyrne: She's lucky. So far my Bronson has had a SRAMed GX derailleur, a SRAMed Monarch Plus, a SRAMed Reverb, and then the replacement Monarch Plus was SRAMed.
Rissveds also commented after the race, saying the course was a lot less technical this year. It seems like they removed that whoop/drop section from previous years. Maybe the organizers tried to make it more spectator/broadcast friendly at the expense of technicality?
Kate's 2019 season was a product of a series of extremely fortunate events for her, unfortunate for other riders:
1. PFP recovering from surgery 2. Langvad suddenly retiring 3. Rissveds still suffering from depression and chaotic circumstances with Swedish Cycling 4. Batty dropping from a top 3 rider in 2018 to back of the pack
She had just broken through with a surprise 2018 Worlds gold medal and was riding a tide of confidence.
She peaked during the first half of the season, but a combination of an extremely ambitious mountain training program mid season and her own tendency to overtrain marked the beginning of the end of her string of wins.
Since then, she's been surpassed by a wave of top younger riders and some vet riders returning to form.
It will be interesting to see how she spins one mediocre results after the next; so far, she's been blaming circumstances or bad luck. How long before her followers figure out she's not that good?
Right about now.
The number of cheerleading comments on her gram have dropped precipitously since she got waxed at a domestic stage race a few weeks ago.
Overtraining.. I'd say she overtrains certain aspects, some of which have little relevance in going fast on a world cup course, and severely undertrains many others.
"Instead, he says, lowering body fat percentage is the key, as it will increase your aerobic capacity because muscle has less competition from fat tissue for oxygen and fuel. (You can use widely available body fat scales)."
Anecdotally, Courtney said to Payson McLeeven, circa 2020 (search for his podcast if you don't believe me): "I'm getting heavier and heavier and faster and faster."
No. Absolutely not.
No doubt she is referring to her metrics, QOMs, etc.
Everyone knows that's not where racing is done. You fall in love with your power meter it's going to turn on you eventually.
"Without knowing her FTP numbers one cannot say if her watt/kilo has actually gone down. Looking at pictures and speculating BMI has gone up doesn't outright mean anything, as body fat could have sustained and total power increased."
True. I never speculated BMI.
"evertheless, watt/kilo is not so relevant on a flat track XCC race where total gross power and aerodynamics matter. It's primarily a metric for climbing, rarely used in the scope of flat and fast (track racing, time trials, etc). Mitterwallner probably is among the top three women of highest watt/kilo, but she struggles in XCC for the same reason scrawny hill climbers struggle in time trials while much heavier rouleurs excel"
True. Courtney during her prime was a good all-arounder.
"Trying to boil down a highly complex subject - that even science doesn't fully understand"
Absolutely true.
"Into a simple "gained weight" argument is an incredibly narrow view.""
That's your opinion, not necessarily true.
So tell me, Church of the Power Meter guy who puts words in my mouth, why exactly is Courtney so slow?
Without science speak, are you able to put in lay terms what you speculate her issue is. I mean I put my neck out there for you to take a hack at it after all..
Not much. The top experienced riders returned to form. Top U23 riders moved up to elites and started winning races as well.
Kate took advantage of an opportunity that opened up in the first half of 2019 with rider absences, amassed an enormous insta following almost instantaneously (no pun intended), and rode a wave of popularity as everyone became social media addicted in the past 2 years.
She had every plausible excuse in the book in that period, but the excuses are running out as life and sports return to normal.
She's married, reached almost all of her goals (likely surpassed her own expectations) aside from the olympics, and has zero financial worries due to her multi millionaire family income. Life is good. Plus, she re-upped for 2 years as an influencer, good enough World Cup cyclist, and Nino's sidekick.
@Willikers: Bringing up watt/kilo (which you have no clue in the first place, only speculation) on an XCC course with a total of 10 meters elevation change every lap is not only asinine, it makes those who actually know what they're talking about realize how dense you are.
@Jamminator: Kate was *extremely* thin in 2020 and 2021. That much was obvious. I wouldn't be surprised if she has gained just a bit of weight in 2022.
XC World Cup is ridiculously demanding and for better or worse, every gram counts. Loana looked dangerously thin last season and it appears she may have gained a few pounds also, assuming Kate did as well.
Every racer has to evaluate how low of a weight they can maintain vs quality of life and general health.
@Jamminator: you still need to haul that weight around somehow.
If her weight is up and she's going slower relative to the field it either means her power is down or the field is way way faster or both. . That's how asinine you are chump
@mtb1101: PFP on her gram literally called herself fat, by way of explaining her Albstadt race result. Stating she needs to cut weight to do well at this year's goal, Worlds.
@mtb1101: Without knowing her FTP numbers one cannot say if her watt/kilo has actually gone down. Looking at pictures and speculating BMI has gone up doesn't outright mean anything, as body fat could have sustained and total power increased.
Nevertheless, watt/kilo is not so relevant on a flat track XCC race where total gross power and aerodynamics matter. It's primarily a metric for climbing, rarely used in the scope of flat and fast (track racing, time trials, etc). Mitterwallner probably is among the top three women of highest watt/kilo, but she struggles in XCC for the same reason scrawny hill climbers struggle in time trials while much heavier rouleurs excel. If aerodynamics/weight/power were plotted on a graph, the power figure would be far more exponential looking in nature than the other two for an XCC style event at Nove Mesto.
Trying to boil down a highly complex subject - that even science doesn't fully understand - into a simple "gained weight" argument is an incredibly narrow view.
@Jamminator: btw you chose to pounce on a very small portion of what I wrote in the comment section, one that you misread.
Perhaps in your disgust with me you didn't read all of my comments ( don't blame you ). In one of them, without science speak, without graphs, without charts, without theory, I speculated (yes speculated; this is a conversation after all) her inability to recover during a race sufficiently to be at the head of it is part of her issue.
Throwing science aside (I know that's hard for you) she simply does not train in the mountains and replicate world cup course topography and enforced effort and adaptive recovery.
Simply put she is seeing cross-eyed after a climb or descent and cannot process potential course obstacles properly, resulting in numerous crashes over the years and several concussions.
@Jamminator: I need to refresh your memory because it seems your reading comprehension isn't very good.
What I wrote:. With total objectivity I write this: she is at least 5 lb heavier and has effectively trained out any leg speed he had.
She has the right people around her that she can subordinate, the wrong people around her if she wants to improve.
What you wrote:. Trying to boil down a highly complex subject - that even science doesn't fully understand - into a simple "gained weight" argument is an incredibly narrow view
I mentioned her team and leg speed. You chose the only one you think you understand fully.
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What is optimal cycling weight? “Excess body weight is the cyclist’s enemy,” says Matt Fitzgerald, author of Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance (available on Amazon). “It wastes energy, slows you down, affects performance and stresses joints.”
You can’t change your basic physiology, such as height, limb length and even potential for leanness but, says Fitzgerald, “you can reduce your weight to a level that is optimal for performance given those genetic constraints.”
You want to up your power-to-weight ratio by improving body composition through training and diet. Your optimal cycling weight is the weight at which you have the best power to weight ratio without compromising your health, performance or energy levels.
Do you know what a numerator and denominator are?
Do you understand ratios?
Do you understand the term Watts per kilogram?
If you do not understand these terms, you are excused from the conversation.
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Nothing new.
I'm going to correct you though: you can call me toxic if it makes you feel better.
I don't talk crap about women racers; look at my comments here and in other world cup recaps.
I call it like I see it and if the racer happens to be a female I'm not going to pull my punches; that's called being sexist.
It seems like your time here has come to an end, replaced by beta and, ironically enough, sparkle.
Whatever I said here is extraordinarily mild compared to what you've written - don't censor me for that.
One last thing: on bike ability has nothing to do with what's between the ears. Exhibit a is the current topic of discussion.
You don't even know what you are writing about
This is called stalking and harassment of a private citizen, a misdemeanor.
Commenting on a public figure involved in the sport on the forum that represents that sport is fair game.
Just because you think she's a goddess doesn't negate my opinion nor those of many others.
People who resort to name calling without an @ are weak.
By your own criteria, Kate's behavioral and personality flaws make her as big of a "loser" as anyone criticizing her.
Besides, if you ain't first, you're last.
You yesterday: "Bagging on people that are doing their best to put out their best result."
Yo, you drink from that Kool aid DEEP and LONG!
Is Sunland CA a good place to live?
It's a fairly safe neighborhood, but scruffy. Neighbors are diverse, many are nice but there are a few bad apples. Some people keep their houses nice and tidy, but most let their houses and yards go, with no pride of neighborhood.
Yeah, sounds about right
Little wonder that there’s such a high dropout from sport amongst teenage girls, citing a fear of being judged as one of the key factors.
"Weight doesn't matter in Elite endurance events"
Hahaha!
Although i do wonder what Kate wrote on Jolanda's post
Comment was supposed to be under the thread, but it glitched
By doing so I will risk someone else coming at me like you came at me after someone else came at me. Do you understand how that works?
You'll never know and I will continue on, commenting as I please.
Thanks for your input laupe
Are you a teenager? I'll give you all the time you need to figure out what age you want to represent
Are you that desperate for attention laupe?
Did I take too much of the attention you wanted?
I don't know where you're from or what you are culture is but you do not ask someone for a piece of information after you've just told them to shut up publicly.
Nice comeback kid.. my estimated age for you just went down I think you are 12
She's suffered a string of concussions and seems much more crash prone than most other riders. The combination of the two means Kate is likely far more conservative and tentative on the bike than during her peak of success: late 2018 to mid 2019.
Power numbers and training regimen aside, it's very difficult to ride fearlessly after experiencing the setbacks Kate has.
This is not to mention how strong the top dozen or so riders are: Mona, Loana, Evie, Stigger, Sina as younger guns, PFP, Jenny, Neff, Terpstra, Rebecca, Keller and Indergand among the more experienced riders.
Kate had her heart set on Olympic Gold, and I don't think she has clear goals now in the midst of a third straight mediocre and frustrating season.
It is actually the fork offset on a short frame. Nino ran into a tree last year because of the change from 51 to 44mm and hit a few stumps, no less. Pidcock runs a 51mm as did Lecomte, when she was winning and Vanderpoel (even though he is tall). I don't know if it is an issue with long wheelbase bikes. No first hand experience there.
I have first hand experience with this as I was trying to solve pedal strike and get 10 more mm of travel in the front. Bought the SRAM 3 position SID in 110mm used. Pleasant rides became a curse fest. On a short wheelbase XC bike the steering is so unresponsive you hit everything. To get a 51mm offset I had to copy the guy who won the overall last year and use DT Swiss.
It was worth $1000 to me to wreck less and hit less stuff.
Pidcock, Lecomte, Mattais, Van der Poel, anyone running the SR Suntour fork, and most Fox forks are raced at 51mm offset. If you see more shimano on the podium it might be the fork offset.
If you put Kate on Lecomte's bike from last year (including tires), it is a different story.
As a case study, look at Ulloa who went form a Scott Spark to Massi. He finished in 69th overall last year. This year he is like 11th, so far.
The same thing could work for Kate.
I knew she had one but not multiples. Chicken or the egg I don't know but she definitely had a lot more flow in 2018-2019, rode more free and on a hardtail much of the time.
The last two years she was extremely stiff on her fully but has gotten more relaxed this year. Her sessions with Kintner have helped with that.
And just plain mean.
Makes you wonder what mother it refers to
Re-upped with Scott for 2 years recently. They don't care
KC 550K / JN 445K / LL 137K / JR 136K / RM 42K
Legit world champs don't do that. She does things like this regularly.
Yep, it's not just one generation but two now that have passed her by. They ALL are good.
Look where the best US riders went to school and trained:. Gwinnie in Western CO, Haley in Squamish, Savilia in Durango. A world cup course is normal to them. They all had a lot of time to learn to manage their efforts, sometimes training in the high mountains and figuring out how to descend without dying.
What does Courtney do? Gets somebody to film her doing road intervals, then films herself lying on a shoulder breathing hard. Last I looked there isn't a rest area on a wc course.
She never cut the umbilical cord, raised in Marin, school on the peninsula, lives on the peninsula. Hasn't grown up.
She actually has said good results aren't necessarily her goal way back in 2020, only no one notice.
A couple of days ago she said she was using these races as training.
The answer is obvious: she's already semi-retired as an Influencer.
Look at this race:. Doing the classic pro Tour breakaway thing, riding at the front to rep the sponsors, then blowing. Because she's now invisible she decided to throw a whip: look at me!!
Such a narcissist, now and then.
Sparkle has become more of an obnoxious influencer than Batty but, unlike Batty, pretends like she still holds some actual competitive relevancy in the UCI (which she doesn't).
Batty was actually a good, consistent rider over x years with a functioning brain while on the course, but I could do without two inches of foundation and a Pcar. She knows where she's at and doesn't try to bs her way through it.
Courtney says things like, I'm glad to be competitive??
Um..you know there is a term for that sort of delusion: gaslighting.
To you. She inched out Jolo a far, far better bike rider.
You might say the Goat.
She's an egomaniac, bordering on megalomaniac. She has no sense of humility and attempts to belittle and subordinate anyone and everyone around her.
She has the ego of an all time great and the results of a 2022 era Emily Batty.
Cav stated he was clumsy in traditional ball sports like soccer so she took that and ran with it.
"See, I'm clumsy too!"
Only difference is Cav is arguably the Goat, consistently materializing wins out of thin air with, in many cases, fewer watts.
Fer chrisakes he just won a stage at the bloody Giro at 36..
Just this last winter he had a very bad crash in a velodrome, puncturing a lung and breaking ribs. On top of that his home was invaded, his family terrorized and he was beaten..
And she has the monomania to attach herself to this guy
THAT is called rubbing people the wrong way.
Jolo did not respond and stiff arms her whenever she gets too close.
Check out J's Reddit AMA - says everything you need to know about what she thinks about her
I'm just talking to like-minded fellas, of which you are not.
Bugger off now
I came here to talk about the racing and attendant things that might come up.
Regard below, be humbled
Nice to see you bring back something old and tired - you in a small market or something?
Look for hi I'm jolanda Neff
Went across the bay to ride up olh.. ran into her.. meaning to say I love you Kate...
I blurted out You Suck Courtney!
Oopsie.
willikers is free to offer whatever take he wants as long as pink bike allows, but it's clear that his takes are often not based on reality.
"Tell all"? - go look at my comment moron. I did not say that.
If you can read between the lines you can get a general gist but you can't even find the effing comment. You didn't even look.
Such an implausibly dim switch you are.
It says nothing. There isn't a single comment even vaguely approaching what Jolanda Neff thinks about Kate Courtney. You're talking out of your arse
Maybe I’m just not seeing what it means to be a MTB team. Seems like they all race for themselves.
Hump
Hump
The panning camera on the front straight was great as were the long shots at the end of it.
Really could see the riders expressions well
1. PFP recovering from surgery
2. Langvad suddenly retiring
3. Rissveds still suffering from depression and chaotic circumstances with Swedish Cycling
4. Batty dropping from a top 3 rider in 2018 to back of the pack
She had just broken through with a surprise 2018 Worlds gold medal and was riding a tide of confidence.
She peaked during the first half of the season, but a combination of an extremely ambitious mountain training program mid season and her own tendency to overtrain marked the beginning of the end of her string of wins.
Since then, she's been surpassed by a wave of top younger riders and some vet riders returning to form.
It will be interesting to see how she spins one mediocre results after the next; so far, she's been blaming circumstances or bad luck. How long before her followers figure out she's not that good?
I 100% agree with you, but imagine how hard it is for Kate, being the "best" in one season and suddenly you can't even compete for a podium
Leave her to her career she’s hardly hurting anyone other than herself.
She had a good run and it was good to watch, now it’s time for some others to have their good runs.
Who knows
Would love to see Savilia there too..
US XC looking good right now!
"Instead, he says, lowering body fat percentage is the key, as it will increase your aerobic capacity because muscle has less competition from fat tissue for oxygen and fuel. (You can use widely available body fat scales)."
Anecdotally, Courtney said to Payson McLeeven, circa 2020 (search for his podcast if you don't believe me): "I'm getting heavier and heavier and faster and faster."
No. Absolutely not.
No doubt she is referring to her metrics, QOMs, etc.
Everyone knows that's not where racing is done. You fall in love with your power meter it's going to turn on you eventually.
THAT is what you call incredibly narrow.
True. I never speculated BMI.
"evertheless, watt/kilo is not so relevant on a flat track XCC race where total gross power and aerodynamics matter. It's primarily a metric for climbing, rarely used in the scope of flat and fast (track racing, time trials, etc). Mitterwallner probably is among the top three women of highest watt/kilo, but she struggles in XCC for the same reason scrawny hill climbers struggle in time trials while much heavier rouleurs excel"
True. Courtney during her prime was a good all-arounder.
"Trying to boil down a highly complex subject - that even science doesn't fully understand"
Absolutely true.
"Into a simple "gained weight" argument is an incredibly narrow view.""
That's your opinion, not necessarily true.
So tell me, Church of the Power Meter guy who puts words in my mouth, why exactly is Courtney so slow?
Without science speak, are you able to put in lay terms what you speculate her issue is. I mean I put my neck out there for you to take a hack at it after all..
She has the right people around her that she can subordinate, the wrong people around her if she wants to improve.
Kate took advantage of an opportunity that opened up in the first half of 2019 with rider absences, amassed an enormous insta following almost instantaneously (no pun intended), and rode a wave of popularity as everyone became social media addicted in the past 2 years.
She had every plausible excuse in the book in that period, but the excuses are running out as life and sports return to normal.
She's married, reached almost all of her goals (likely surpassed her own expectations) aside from the olympics, and has zero financial worries due to her multi millionaire family income. Life is good. Plus, she re-upped for 2 years as an influencer, good enough World Cup cyclist, and Nino's sidekick.
XC World Cup is ridiculously demanding and for better or worse, every gram counts. Loana looked dangerously thin last season and it appears she may have gained a few pounds also, assuming Kate did as well.
Every racer has to evaluate how low of a weight they can maintain vs quality of life and general health.
If her weight is up and she's going slower relative to the field it either means her power is down or the field is way way faster or both.
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That's how asinine you are chump
She was f*cking anorexic hump boy
There is this thing called the law of diminishing returns - apparently you aren't familiar with it.
I now wouldn't say you're rebuttal is asinine..
You are simply slow.
So. Slow.
I said weight is up. That's published on the Scott site dumbass.
Ranked 25th in the world and falling. I'm positive you can coach her back into the top 24
Her neck tattoo: life is a joke
Indeed.
Nevertheless, watt/kilo is not so relevant on a flat track XCC race where total gross power and aerodynamics matter. It's primarily a metric for climbing, rarely used in the scope of flat and fast (track racing, time trials, etc). Mitterwallner probably is among the top three women of highest watt/kilo, but she struggles in XCC for the same reason scrawny hill climbers struggle in time trials while much heavier rouleurs excel. If aerodynamics/weight/power were plotted on a graph, the power figure would be far more exponential looking in nature than the other two for an XCC style event at Nove Mesto.
Trying to boil down a highly complex subject - that even science doesn't fully understand - into a simple "gained weight" argument is an incredibly narrow view.
Perhaps in your disgust with me you didn't read all of my comments ( don't blame you ). In one of them, without science speak, without graphs, without charts, without theory, I speculated (yes speculated; this is a conversation after all) her inability to recover during a race sufficiently to be at the head of it is part of her issue.
Throwing science aside (I know that's hard for you) she simply does not train in the mountains and replicate world cup course topography and enforced effort and adaptive recovery.
Simply put she is seeing cross-eyed after a climb or descent and cannot process potential course obstacles properly, resulting in numerous crashes over the years and several concussions.
"Perfection is about striving not necessarily attaining something specific."
She said this today.
When you don't have goals on the race course you fail on the race course.
What I wrote:. With total objectivity I write this: she is at least 5 lb heavier and has effectively trained out any leg speed he had.
She has the right people around her that she can subordinate, the wrong people around her if she wants to improve.
What you wrote:. Trying to boil down a highly complex subject - that even science doesn't fully understand - into a simple "gained weight" argument is an incredibly narrow view
I mentioned her team and leg speed. You chose the only one you think you understand fully.
Now tell me who's being narrow
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What is optimal cycling weight?
“Excess body weight is the cyclist’s enemy,” says Matt Fitzgerald, author of Racing Weight: How to Get Lean for Peak Performance (available on Amazon). “It wastes energy, slows you down, affects performance and stresses joints.”
You can’t change your basic physiology, such as height, limb length and even potential for leanness but, says Fitzgerald, “you can reduce your weight to a level that is optimal for performance given those genetic constraints.”
You want to up your power-to-weight ratio by improving body composition through training and diet. Your optimal cycling weight is the weight at which you have the best power to weight ratio without compromising your health, performance or energy levels.