Fitness Peak

[Hdefte]

How do you time fitness peak for the tour?
Im playing as BORA, and aiming for Roglic to win the tour. He rides Douphine as a warm up race, and havn't been participating in other races. Now he is peaking before the tour even starts, even though he has that as an objective.

What do you guys do?

[Duckling]

Did you do an early and long preparation training camp? That may be why as it contributes to the fitness peak in two ways. 2 points/day on Training camp and by elevating his fitness early, which also contributes to fitness peak.

If you do the preparation training camps, then maybe you should consider not doing long warm-up races.

Personally i check the Fitness peak level about 30 days before start of grand tours. If it's above 55, at this point (100 - 1.5 *#daystostart) - then I in most cases won't sign the riders up for any warm-up races, (A rider will gain 1.2-1.5 points pr. day). The only exception is if stage 1-5 is somehow very important to the rider :-)

[Chthonic Guardian]

The fitness peak meter starts 8 weeks before the objective race.
I can only assume Roglic ran other races towards the start of that 8 weeks. No other way to explain an early peak like that.
OR: You have to let your previous peak end, then have a rest week, before that 8 weeks. If you try to schedule multiple peaks less than 8 weeks apart, the peaks after the first one will be all messed up.
For Giro riders I don't schedule any peaks before that. It just causes problems when I do. For the TDF as long as the peak will end and I can schedule and off week for the rider to get his tired status down, and then 8-week run-up with 7-12 race days (12 for sprinters so they peak at start of tour, 6-8 for GC rider so he peaks at end of first week or start of 2nd week), it works fine every time.
Above poster describes the run up very well.
I find that 7-12 race days get me a well timed peak.

Make sure there is a rest week (red bar in rider objectives screen) after any peak, and then make sure the next peak is 8 weeks or more after that rest week.

Good luck