How about Lance "YouDaMan" Armstrong?

[r0GuE]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

My team trains VERY early in the AM to avoid heat and traffic. We ride very rural roads and seldom see more than one or two cars in a 60 mile training ride. Some of the cyclists can be pretty elitist. It's a shame that they can create ill will. The ONLY time that I will prevent (on purpose) a car from passing me is if I feel based on my perspoective, that it is unsafe to have him come around me. It usually only takes a few hundred yard for me to get in a section where I can then get over out of the way.
Be patient with us bozos! We just might be the next Lance Armstrong (doubt it!)

Rogue

 

[r0GuE]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

Yawn..
5:15AM and it's time toi stretch for the ride. Thought I'd hit TBN while the coffe makes! Have a good day, hope I don't get in your way ;^)

Rogue

 

[GlueGuy]

Re: How about Lance "YouDaMan" Armstrong?

I get a couple of bike-related emails a month, and got this in the email yesterday. Thought the rest of you spoke-heads might enjoy these quotes:

"Lance Armstrong is one in a million. Maybe one in ten million. The amount of fatigue-causing lactic acid produced by his cycling muscles is only one-fourth that of his competitors. There are few people with his ability walking the face of the earth." -- Edward Coyle, cycling scientist

"The speed was phenominal... and there was Lance himself. I'd been around a lot of pros -- I knew they were lean, with combustible muscles. I knew their skin lay tight over their bodies like shrink-wrap, making their quads and calves look even more swollen. But I've never seen it at work like this. We pulled ahead of Lance and I could see his face. He was in terrible pain, but for him it was routine excruciating pain. Even though it tore at his body, he was smoother than I can ever hope to be." -- Bill Strickland, from a 1994 Tour DuPont follow vehicle, in his book The Quotable Cyclist



The GlueGuy

 

[JOR_EL]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

Interesting pair of quotes, GlueGuy /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

If;
<font color=blue>The amount of fatigue-causing lactic acid produced by his cycling muscles is only one-fourth that of his competitors.</font color=blue>

and;
<font color=blue>He was in terrible pain</font color=blue>

then;
The real "heroes" must be the competitors who sometimes at-least-approach his performance levels, while dealing with 4 times the "fatigue-causing lactic acid"! (?) /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Larry

 

[r0GuE]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

I can;t cut and paste themin exactly but I read one (from ullrich I think) that said lance sailed by him at such a high cadence that he thought it was a motorcycle at first.
There was another that said lance was riding away from the elite world class cyclists like they were children.

Rogue

 

[MChalkley]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

Cowboydoc - I wouldn't ride on that road. But, then, as I've said, I'm old enough to be a chicken. Better a live chicken than a dead lion...

MarkC

 

[MChalkley]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

Rob - You hit the nail on the head, I think - it depends on where you are. Some places are very bike-conscious, with lanes, awareness programs, etc., whereas other places aren't. Around here most folks seem to think there's a pelt reward for cyclists. About the only thing a cyclist could do that's in the same league as the life-threatening stunts the jerks around here routinely pull is shoot at them - and that's illegal. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that the motorists' tricks are. I just can't play by the "rules of the road" around here anymore, at least not on a bicycle. It's unfortunate - I really miss it. And I need the exercise...

MarkC

 

[r0GuE]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

Early bird gets the worm. I couldn't even think about riding where we ride at 3PM on a friday but at 6:10AM on a sunday its wide open for hours.

Rogue

 

[GlueGuy]

Re: How about Lance \"YouDaMan\" Armstrong?

I personally don't believe that his body produces 1/4 the amount of lactic acid. That would seem to defie the laws of physics. However, I do believe that because of the ordeal that he had to endure to cope with the treatment of his cancer, that he has developed a much higher tolerance of pain.

That, and he has the heart of horse.

The GlueGuy