Tadej Pogačar holds 320–340 watts at a Zone 2 heart rate of 140–155 BPM, keeping lactate below 2 mmol/L for up to five continuous hours of riding. These are numbers most amateur cyclists hit for a single sprint, not five hours of endurance work. The gap between elite and recreational aerobic capacity is far wider than most people realize.
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