{"id":2147578,"date":"2026-09-15T23:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2147578"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:03:11","slug":"tadej-pogacar-back-on-trainer-2-weeks-after-season-ending-vuelta-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2147578","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar Back on Trainer 2 Weeks After Season-Ending Vuelta Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A little over two weeks after a horrific crash in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a shut down Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s season, he\u2019s back on the trainer, surely putting out far more watts in zone 2 than any of us could fathom.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFirst time back,\u201d he said in a video posted to his Instagram account on Tuesday. \u201cCollarbone strong. Head strong. Heart rate high. Super happy. Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Instagram post, Pogacar also showed off a scar across his shoulder from his surgery, accompanied by other images from his recovery process, including shots in the hospital, getting ice cream post hospital release, and a Whoop recovery score of 28% that frankly seems high given the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Though the world champion is back on the bike indoors, he will not be defending his title in Montr\u00e9al later this month, having shut down the rest of his racing calendar after the gruesome fall on stage 8 of the Vuelta on August 29 that saw him fracture his clavicle and a vertebra, and receive a concussion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s just nice to be back on the bike,\u201d Poga\u010dar said in a press release through his team\u2019s indoor training sponsor MyWhoosh. \u201cI\u2019m taking it step by step at the moment and slowly building things back up towards next season.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Poga\u010dar being perhaps the greatest cyclist of all time, and having recently signed on to ride through at least 2032, UAE Team Emirates-XRG is taking no chances with rushing the star\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing right now is to let Tadej return to the bike in a controlled and progressive way, with no unnecessary pressure on the process,\u201d UAE Team Emirates-XRG team principal Mauro Gianetti said in a press release. \u201cWe have a very experienced performance team, and every part of his riding is considered carefully as we look towards the new season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tadej-Pogacar-trainer.jpg”] Published September 15, 2026 05:03PM A little over two weeks after a horrific crash in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a shut down Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s season, he\u2019s back on the trainer, surely putting out far more watts in zone 2 than any of us could fathom. \u201cFirst time back,\u201d he said in a video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2147578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2147578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2147578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2147578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2147578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}