Bib #15939 · M5

Michael SHEARS

11:00:29

Finish time

9,186 / 12,733

Overall

Where you finished

Pool	Place	Of
Overall	9,186	12,733
Men	8,754	12,071
M5	869	1,255

What it took

Pool	Winner	Median
Overall	5:20:20+5:40:09	9:55:19+1:05:10
Men	5:20:20+5:40:09	9:53:09+1:07:20
M5	6:04:50+4:55:39	10:12:13+48:16

Winner and median are over classified finishers only. The gap is what you add to their time to get yours: + means you were that much slower, − that much faster.

The fun ranking

The 26th fastest Michael of 49. The quickest one did 6:09:20, the median Michael 11:00:09.

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Among classified finishers only, ties sharing a place. Not an official classification — no timekeeper has ever scored this.

Room to improve: your biggest relative loss vs. the M5 median was on Col du Galibier — 20:59 slower.

Your AI ride analysis

Your ride placed 9186th among 12733 finishers, and the segment splits show exactly where that time swung. Your best relative split was Descente du Galibier: about 2 minutes clear of the category M5 median. Your weakest split, by category M5 standards, was Col du Galibier, where you conceded about 21 minutes against that median. That same section also ran about 24 minutes slower than the median across the whole field, not just your category, so it looks like a genuine target rather than a category-specific quirk. For next time, a block of dedicated climbing work at that kind of gradient looks like the highest-leverage fix before your next mountain stage.

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Rider move along the real course profile, positions interpolated between the timing mats from their split times.

Michael SHEARS moving along the real course at their own recorded splits. Between two timing mats the dot is interpolated, so it glides where the rider may well have been suffering.

Race position along the course

Climbs & segments

Segment	Time	Rank	Top %	vs median
Start → Pied de la Croix de FerFlat / valley	30:12	9,755	68%	+1:36
Col de la Croix de FerClimb	2:10:36	11,521	81%	+15:03
Descente + vallée de la MaurienneFlat / valley	1:44:02	10,994	79%	+16:07
Col du TélégrapheClimb	1:15:42	9,496	69%	+6:55
Télégraphe → Pied du Galibier (Valloire)Flat / valley	12:54	6,089	45%	−0:32
Col du GalibierClimb	2:19:51	10,408	83%	+24:26
Descente du GalibierDescent	56:16	5,952	47%	−0:51
Col de SarenneClimb	1:29:02	7,511	60%	+4:22
Descente Sarenne → Alpe d’HuezDescent	21:54	6,494	52%	+13s
Classement grimpeur (Croix de Fer + Télégraphe + Galibier)Combined	5:46:09	10,337	83%	+47:19
Classement descendeur (2 descentes cumulées)Combined	1:18:10	5,759	47%	−1:22

“Top %” = segment rank as a share of riders timed on that segment. “vs median” = time ahead of (green) or behind (red) the median rider.

How you compare, climb by climb

Segment	You	Stage winner	M5 leader	GC avg / median	M5 avg / median
Start → Pied de la Croix de Fer	30:12	Hugo VALADIER 20:51	Steve BULOT 20:53	28:36 / 28:36	29:01 / 28:54
Col de la Croix de Fer	2:10:36	Simon COMBES 1:05:13	Steve BULOT 1:13:55	1:55:29 / 1:55:33	1:58:03 / 1:57:38
Descente + vallée de la Maurienne	1:44:02	Antoine BERGER 52:00	Antoine MAISONHAUTE 57:35	1:28:54 / 1:27:55	1:30:51 / 1:30:08
Col du Télégraphe	1:15:42	Luca CAVALLO 33:04	Antoine MAISONHAUTE 38:08	1:10:11 / 1:08:47	1:12:10 / 1:10:46
Télégraphe → Pied du Galibier (Valloire)	12:54	Robin BOURDIER 7:46	Antoine MAISONHAUTE 7:59	15:48 / 13:26	16:30 / 14:08
Col du Galibier	2:19:51	Luca CAVALLO 50:25	Antoine MAISONHAUTE 57:02	1:56:29 / 1:55:25	2:00:05 / 1:58:52
Descente du Galibier	56:16	Thibaut CLÉMENT 34:38	Steve BULOT 37:52	58:21 / 57:07	59:03 / 58:10
Col de Sarenne	1:29:02	Luca CAVALLO 39:52	Flip JANSEN 53:18	1:26:19 / 1:24:40	1:29:22 / 1:27:55
Descente Sarenne → Alpe d’Huez	21:54	Gustave BRUYER 3:39	?ukasz PODOLSKI 11:10	22:12 / 21:41	22:41 / 22:16
Classement grimpeur (Croix de Fer + Télégraphe + Galibier)	5:46:09	Luca CAVALLO 2:28:49	Antoine MAISONHAUTE 2:49:13	4:57:35 / 4:58:50	5:05:39 / 5:07:12
Classement descendeur (2 descentes cumulées)	1:18:10	Thibaut CLÉMENT 47:15	Lionel POLETTI 52:42	1:20:41 / 1:19:32	1:21:39 / 1:20:37

“Stage winner” = fastest rider on that segment, field-wide. “GC” = the whole classified field. Rows with no result for this rider (missed timing mat) are omitted here — see the table above for why.

Checkpoint splits

Checkpoint	Km	Time	Rank	vs median
START	0	0:00	—
Pied de Col de la Croix de Fer	14.8	30:12	9,537	+1:36
Col de la Croix de Fer	38.5	2:40:48	11,061	+16:33
Pied de Col du Télégraphe	80.1	4:24:50	11,089	+32:02
Col du Télégraphe	92	5:40:32	10,677	+38:34
Pied de Col du Galibier	97.3	5:53:26	9,651	+34:38
Tunnel du Galibier	114.6	8:04:44	11,106	+59:38
Activation Canyon	115	8:05:56	10,070	+1h02
Col du Galibier	115.6	8:13:17	10,606	+1h04
Pied de Col de Sarenne	140.2	9:09:33	9,669	+1h01
Col de Sarenne	161	10:38:35	9,120	+1h03
FINISH	170	11:00:29	9,186	+1h05

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