No data, no problem: Pogacar’s searing stage 2 attack completed without a computer

Tadej Pogačar’s surge to victory on stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia, teed up by his UAE Team Emirates teammates, was as much a spectacle to watch as it was an expected conclusion to the day, but the circumstances around how the race played out were anything but predictable. 

He launched his attack with 4.5km to go, on the steepest part of the climb to Santuario di Oropa, beating Dani Martínez (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) into 2nd and 3rd place respectively, but what’s even more impressive is that he did it without his bike computer, and thus without power and heart rate data. He paced his final effort purely on feel.