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Episode 70: A Navy Engineer's Tour de France Analysis: John Daly on Tadej, Vingegaard, MVDP, and the Data Behind the Numbers

Episode 70: A Navy Engineer's Tour de France Analysis: John Daly on Tadej, Vingegaard, MVDP, and the Data Behind the Numbers

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This week on Endurance State of Mind, we bring on one of the most well rounded athletes and sharpest cycling minds we've had on the show. John Daly. Six foot seven, 250 pound former Citadel football player. 18 year active duty Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer. Deployed across the world with the CBs, including hard tours through Europe and Africa. Powerlifter who has bench pressed 500 pounds on two different continents. Road cyclist. Rower. Peloton dominator turned Gulf Coast Bicycle Club regular. And the guy in our group chat who can actually make sense of what we just watched at the Tour de France.We open with John's journey. From growing up in Marietta, Georgia playing baseball as a right handed first baseman who nobody needed, to earning a football scholarship at The Citadel where he studied civil engineering under a full ride. From working construction and design out of school to joining the Navy in 2007 to build in some of the toughest places on earth. And from powerlifting his way to a 500 pound bench in the 275 pound class to picking up a Peloton bike with his wife in 2017 that quietly rewrote what he thought was possible.John tells us about the moment he realized dominating the Peloton leaderboard was not the same thing as being a road cyclist, buying his first entry level Giant Contend 3 from a shop in Georgia, and finding his community on the Mississippi Gulf Coast under the mentorship of Eddie Holmes and the Gulf Coast Bicycle Club. He talks about deploying with NMCB 133 across Europe and Africa, using sport as a shared language when no other language works, and how a soccer ball or rugby ball can build trust and camaraderie faster than any English speaking classroom ever could.He walks us through his climb of Haleakala in Hawaii, the 10,000 foot stratovolcano that taught him a hard lesson about watts per kilogram when you weigh 250 pounds. The bonk. The nutrition failure. The fact that he had to drive down the first 5,000 feet of descent because he could no longer safely hold the brakes on a six percent grade. And what it means to prepare for one specific day when you do not live on the island where the climb sits.Then he takes us inside his most recent big ride. Seattle to Portland (STP). 206 miles from Husky Stadium to Portland in a single day. Five AM wave, on the road for over 12 hours, on the bus back until midnight, home at 2 AM. 6,400 people signed up. Roughly 10 percent do it in one day. John was one of them.And then we get into the reason a lot of you clicked this episode. The 2025 Tour de France, unpacked from the inside out by someone who actually understands what he is looking at.We dig into Tadej Pogačar's performance on Alpe d'Huez. Seven watts per kilo for 35 minutes. A two and a half minute gap to Sep Kuss, Carapaz, and Lenny Martinez that Tadej closed alone after Adam Yates set him up at the base of the mountain. John explains why he thinks Tadej was fully peaked for that specific stage, why his consistency across the year is the strongest evidence for his physiology being legitimate, and how his relatively heavier build at 68 kilos changes the math on wattage output. He also explains why Tadej climbing that mountain on a Colnago Y1 Rs aerobike matters, and why Chris Froome's high cadence style might not be what works for the current era of climbers.We tackle the doping questions head on. The high altitude alibi and the theory of microdosed EPO hiding under expected altitude bloodwork spikes. Whether the anti doping wake up calls at 2 AM for Jonas Vingegaard and 5 AM for Tadej Pogačar between two of the hardest mountain stages of the tour were necessary, appropriate, or a step too far. Whether Jonas being woken in the middle of the night played a role in his crash on stage 14 that broke his collarbone and ended his tour. And what a real biological passport can and cannot prove.We break down the wide open podium fight for second and third after Jonas went out. Remco Evenepoel. Isaac Del Toro. Paul Seixas. Tom Pidcock. Florian Lipowitz. The Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe two team leader problem. Sep Kuss missing his feed and going over the barrier at speed on the descent (thankfully into the safety net). What the Peloton dynamics look like when the whole race is essentially a Tadej Pogačar exhibition.We get into cutting edge nutrition science. The exogenous lactate gels being tested by Labdafield, Exolactate, Santa Madre, and Innervit. Whether a four percent gain is actually meaningful at the top of the sport, or whether it disappears into the noise of training effect and individual variability. Why ketones seem to have shifted from performance to recovery in the peloton.We close with the Champs Elysees finish that John calls one of the most otherworldly moments in cycling. Matthew van der Poel kicking Tadej Pogačar off his wheel on the Montmartre climb. Tadej holding 700 watts for over a minute just to hang on. MVDP dropping an estimated 1,500 watt sprint (two horsepower) to ...
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