Having lost weight and begun to turn out record watts numbers - according to his latest data below - Sam Bennett is well on track to add to his palmares more wins like this one at Bayern Rundfahrt this year.
Currently in his first training camp of the winter in Spain, Sam Bennett has shared his latest training data on Twitter this morning and seems to be delighted with his progress so far this winter.
He said his weight was down 2kg on last year to 69kg at present. And his maximum watts during a sprint on the bike today reached 1,716.
That's a 126 watts improvement on his maximum and not far of his target of 1,800 watts this winter.
However, his numbers already are world class.
Just to put them on context, this is what the self-styled (former?) world's fastest man Mark Cavendish had to say about his watts in 2010; a year when he won five stages in the Tour de France and three in the Vuelta a Espana.
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“You’d be surprised at my watts,” Cavendish says.
“Most people who say that their maximum is 1,600 watts won’t put out 1,600. My maximum is 1,580, and that is a lot.
“Not many guys will do more than a hundred more than that. But no one will ever get close to that in a race after 200 kilometres.
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“I put out 1,490 today in training, on bad form, but I won’t put that out in a race. It’s not watts, and it’s not just my frontal area in a sprint.
“It’s everything beforehand. How I ride in the peloton, my pedalling action, how I sit. I save so much energy for the finish.”
Explainer: Watts are essentially the power a rider produces when pushing the pedals. That output is measured by a power metre fitted to a rider's bike so they can monitor their training effort and also any improvements over time.
So happy with winter training so far, 1716watts @69kg(-2kg). 126watts up on last yr.Target this winter 1800watts+ !! pic.twitter.com/uAK93LmoA1
— Sam Bennett (@benNETappEndura) December 2, 2014
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