"Don't stress too much" - Isaac del Toro reveals simple advice Tadej Pogacar gave him
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Isaac del Toro is one of the most exciting young talents in the UAE Team Emirates - XRG squad. The Mexican, after a more than outstanding first year as a professional, is looking forward to the 2025 campaign.
In an interview with Marca, the winner of the Tour del Porvenir 2023 talked about the advice that men like Tadej Pogacar and Juan Ayuso have given him.
"They just tell me not to stress too much and that everything will come with time. They have full confidence in how I do things and that generates stress for me, because I see that they make it very easy, but they always try to give me peace of mind so that step by step I can improve."
Being in the best team in the world with the best riders on the planet doesn't make him feel more pressure, "I don't feel it as pressure or responsibility, quite the opposite. It's one of the greatest teams in the world and the fact that I'm here means I have the level to be here."
No to Movistar Team
He admits that he turned down Movistar Team to sign with UAE Team Emirates XRG, "After the Tour del Porvenir I wanted to spend time with the teams that were interested in me, just as they were interested in me, and one of them was Movistar. I wanted to listen to them and thank them for the opportunity they wanted to offer me. In the end I had to evaluate where I was, what I wanted and what projection I would like to have based on my aspirations".
The Mexican is expected to make his 2025 debut this week at the Vuelta a Murcia and is confirmed to race a pair of French classics in early March (Faun-Ardèche Classic and Faun Drome Classic). He will then tackle the second grand tour of his career, after last year's Vuelta, the Giro d'Italia.
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- No idea, there have been suggestions something is amiss, maybe he doesn’t have all his mind connected at some moments, I’d definitely do a thorough review of his consciousness under effort.Mistermaumau06-04-2025
- Pogacar and van der Poel have won the last 6 Monuments, and 11 of the last 13 Monuments. There’s never been domination like this by two riders, and we are in our third year of it. (Merckx and de Vlaeminck won a total of 30 Monuments between 1966 and 1979, but others were winning along the way, as well.)RidesHills06-04-2025
- Yes but what was the dumb effort by Van Aert to drop Pogacar, Vanderpoel and Pederson about.? Just showing face? If he had stayed on the wheels and not wasted energy, he might have got on the podium in the runners up sprint.Cyclingsbestfan06-04-2025
- What a loser.
santiagobenites06-04-2025 - I agree about the sprint or drilling it on the flat. Lighter rider versus heavier rider. Inertia is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion (e.g the heavier riders momentum) and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes the velocity to change.Cyclingsbestfan06-04-2025
- Definitely, he is a great rider, and this season might even be as good as last (in a perfect world, a few more Monuments, a Tour-Vuelta double, and the Worlds again), but he has to do this for years on end to compare to Merckx’s results from roughly 69 to 74. Yes, times have changed, yes competition is different, yes speeds are higher, and so on, but let’s let Pogacar be Pogacar and give him time. We can evaluate his career when he retires. Until then, let’s enjoy it while we have it.RidesHills06-04-2025
- Excellent work and show from all of them, glad to see van Aert got back to shape in time. Bring on P-RMistermaumau06-04-2025
- All this seems right but the problem is that two riders of differing weight going at the same speed will have different power and they will also have different power per weight yet are both (in theory, i.e. when trying their hardest) at their max,which means the lighter one is proportionally losing more to the wind (working harder to overcome), the heavier one proportionally losing more to rolling resistance and bounce. The extremely difficult calculations to know which of the 2-3 causes the bigger effect under what exact conditions is what makes it impossible to say who will benefit most in many situations when they aren’t different enough to make it obvious, i.e. a puny climber of 50kg vs a sprinter of 80kg on either the flat or a mountain.Mistermaumau06-04-2025
- Far more tension than expected, the other teams really worked Pogacar over as much as can be expected, they kept getting away and getting caught, and he launched later than I thought he would. And still, here is Monument 8, he’s now won at least twice in every one he has won. Excellent job for Pederson and Ganna amongst all the other results. What a race!RidesHills06-04-2025
- If you throw 2 identical golf balls at the same speed, but one is twice the weight, it will go a bit farther (wind resistance is the same, so the amount of energy of the heavier ball is higher). If you throw 2 identical golf balls at the same power, but one is twice the weight, it will go less far (the amount of energy is the same, so the lighter one is going faster). Remember that in a flat TT, once up to speed, the amount of weight is basically negligible (except a tiny amount of increase in rolling resistance). It's all power vs CdA. Probably the best way to think about this is with a truck (with a covered bed) over a flat but very bumpy road, and ideal tire pressure for the weight. Now, load the truck up to 3X the mass, change the tire pressure to the new ideal pressure, and do the run again. What will take the most amount of power? It's quite obvious that it's the run with the more mass. (Many of us have done this test in real world conditions without realizing it.) Why? Because there's deformation loss to the tire, which is somewhat worse when there's more mass, but there's also the loss from having to lift that much more weight over and over again.acem8206-04-2025