Tour de Force

[markie]

Originally posted by mankie:
   72 hours of breathing at a lower attitude the body goes right back to were it was.
 
 

when I went cycling in Colorado and Calgary for 3 weeks I came back noticeably fitter than before.
 
 If you keep training when you get back in the 72 hour period, well you can train harder than before which helps make you take a jump in fitness. Plus 72 hours is when it starts to go down, not goes down to its previous levels.
 
 all professional endurance athletes train at altitude.

[ggw]

Originally posted by mankie:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
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 He has won five years running because he has been the best cyclist five years running -- period.
 
 

You are forgetting the one big advantage he has...he doesn't have to worry about crushing his nuts on the seat!    [/b]

I read an article that said there is actually a lot of truth to the notion that his cancer helped him get where he is today.  First, it caused him to slim down -- his weight had previously been a problem.  Second, he could build back all his muscles specifically for cycling and endurance.  And of course, there is the huge intangible of facing your own mortality and surviving.

[markie]

http://www.lancearmstrong.com/bio.html
 
 he trained at altitude and was originally a triathlete. Such competitions are rarer in the UK. (((The US climate (in some states) makes it easier to train)))

[markie]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   cancer helped him get where he is today.  

serious injury has seen many a rider come back much stronger...
 
 laurent Jalabert and Marco Pantani came back after horrendous crashes and along break much better cyclists.
 
 In addittion to your excellent points that time off may be recoverey time to muscles to fully heal.

[ggw]

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[Venerable Bede]

i just found out that there's a team in the spanish league with my last name. . .too bad my spanish never got to this advanced stage where i'd be able to read the page:
 
 http://www.villarrealcf.es/
 
 and there's a pitcher for the arizona diamondbacks with that last name too. . .trying to get my sister to get a jersey from him.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

There is an adult film producer/actor who shares my last name. I'll refrain from wanting his jersey.

[Barcelona]

Amstrong is joining a reduced group of cyclists, Eddy Merckx from Belgium, Bernard Hinauld and Jacques Anquetil from France, and Miguel Indurain from Spain with 5 Tours de France. I wish the attention these cyclists got in the US was 10% of the attention Amstrong gets in Europe.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Barcelona:
  Amstrong is joining a reduced group of cyclists, Eddy Merckx from Belgium, Bernard Hinauld and Jacques Anquetil from France, and Miguel Indurain from Spain with 5 Tours de France. I wish the attention these cyclists got in the US was 10% of the attention Amstrong gets in Europe.

But they're not American so why would you expect Americans to give a rats arse about them?...come on Barcelona mate, you've lived here long enough now...you should know that.

[Guiny]

Well that eliminates Beckham.
 
 

Originally posted by mankie:
   If there was a Brit rider though, I bet he had two balls in his shorts.

Originally posted by G.Love:
 isn't it interesting that the US Postal Service sponsors Armstrong, but yet, fiscally, they are always in the red which results in an increase to the cost of the postage stamp?
 [/QB]

What is really amazing is that the US government, unlike Europe, expects the post office (and AMTRAK too!) to turn a profit each and every year.  Maybe this expalins why a pullman compartment on AMTRAK for a family of three round-trip from New York to LA cost over $3500 ?

[keithstg]

Originally posted by The Bombay Doors:
   

Originally posted by G.Love:
 isn't it interesting that the US Postal Service sponsors Armstrong, but yet, fiscally, they are always in the red which results in an increase to the cost of the postage stamp?
 [/b]

What is really amazing is that the US government, unlike Europe, expects the post office (and AMTRAK too!) to turn a profit each and every year.  Maybe this expalins why a pullman compartment on AMTRAK for a family of three round-trip from New York to LA cost over $3500 ? [/QB]

That is what they get for asking the government to consider them Performance Based Organizations (PBO's). If they didn't, then maybe they wouldn't be in that mess.