{"id":425695,"date":"2026-02-14T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425695\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:27:15","slug":"even-on-a-coffee-ride-tadej-pogacar-is-putting-out-outrageous-power-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425695\/","title":{"rendered":"Even on a coffee ride, Tadej Poga\u010dar is putting out outrageous power numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cycling world was buzzing on Wednesday after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/strava\" title=\"Strava\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strava<\/a> post from Tadej Poga\u010dar. The Slovenian had shared a story about an awkward encounter with a fan \u2014 but the upload also revealed something else: truly exceptional power data for what he labelled a \u201crelaxed coffee ride\u201d. Even on a recovery spin, Poga\u010dar appears to be riding at levels most amateurs can only dream of.Poga\u010dar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/17364675161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strava <\/a>post followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/pogacar-winks-after-bizarre-encounter-a-long-day-ended-with-losing-my-biggest-fan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incident <\/a>and included a pointed message about respect. In the end, the world champion still left room for humour and perspective: \u201cI love you all\u2026 as long as they don\u2019t behave like spoiled teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the numbers on the ride were arguably even more jaw-dropping. Over 136 kilometres, the four-time Tour de France winner reportedly averaged 307 watts \u2014 and did so comfortably, with his heart rate barely pushing beyond Zone 3. For Poga\u010dar, this was an \u201ceasy\u201d spin to grab a coffee.<\/p>\n<p>To put it into perspective: at roughly 66 kilograms, that average power equates to around 4.65 watts per kilo. In other words, if you want to sit on Poga\u010dar\u2019s wheel, you may need to be pushing serious numbers even when he\u2019s supposedly taking it easy. The world champion continues to amaze \u2014 even on the way to a cappuccino.<\/p>\n<p>Read on below the Strava data!<\/p>\n<p>Coffee ride with teammate SivakovOn Friday, Poga\u010dar also posted photos from recent training days on Instagram \u2014 including, of course, the coffee stops. He rode alongside teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/pavel-sivakov\" title=\"Pavel Sivakov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pavel Sivakov<\/a> and \u017diga Jerman. Jerman is a close friend of Poga\u010dar and, since this season, also his personal masseur. The trio have been training in sunny Spain as they build towards the start of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Poga\u010dar is expected to begin his season in Italy, where he will hunt a successful title defence at Strade Bianche. After that, he is set to take another shot at Milano\u2013Sanremo \u2014 one of the Monuments still missing from his palmar\u00e8s. Sivakov, meanwhile, is due to start earlier at the Vuelta a Andaluc\u00eda.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cycling world was buzzing on Wednesday after a Strava post from Tadej Poga\u010dar. The Slovenian had shared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,148146,101,57183,8782,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-425695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-pavel-sivakov","tag-sports","tag-strava","tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}