LA seen motorpacing in Austin

From: (Tom Arsenault)

In another light; who cares if Lance is motorpacing or was seen
motorpacing??

Jan?

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From: (DanSchmatz)

4 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service
5 Tom Leaper (Aus) Navigators Cycling Team
6 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service

Although 6th wasn't the result USPS wanted but I wouldn't call it less than
stellar.

Plus fourth is better than 6th. Two in the top 6 is pretty good, too.

You gotta love the "anything less than first is failure" coupled with the
"Lance is bad for cycling because he doesn't race the Giro" mentality.

"We don't like Lance because he won't set himself up to fail in the Tour like
we want him to."

Whatever the rationale for the motor ride, the attempt at #6 (in a row) is
already ongoing. But you knew that.


There is NO WAY that carmichael has his working on hi-end speed work
this time of year for the tour next year. If it was up to Chris -
lance would be doing no intensity this year to prepare for next years
tour.

-a

And you know this because you coach possible Tour winners?

Yes I do.

"Tom Arsenault" wrote in message

In another light; who cares if Lance is motorpacing or was seen
motorpacing??

Evidently you, for starters.

"Andrew Martin" wrote in message
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There is NO WAY that carmichael has his working on hi-end speed work
this time of year for the tour next year. If it was up to Chris -
lance would be doing no intensity this year to prepare for next years
tour.

Why not?? You build up a base in SPEED and carry that speed base into your
endurance and traditional base building, train at a higher speed during this
period, you come out with more speed and in theory you would peak at a
higher average speed. I think it's logical ...

s
http://boardnbike.com

"warren" wrote in message
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Great, but many of the top coaches would suggest that anerobic training
will inhibit the aerobic training you need to do during the fall and
winter. Add the anerobic stuff after a few months of aerobic only.

Lance was probably just doing a little speed work once or twice a week
to maintain most of his fitness before his little ride in SF.

True, but if you are doing your aerobic training at say 1 to 2 mph higher
than last year ... that's not better?? As far as i see it's still summer ...
speed training does inhibit the aerobic base phase, but he is not in that
part ...

s

"Andy Coggan" wrote in message
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"DanSchmatz" wrote in message
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As we are all just suckers and Lance is a World and Tour champion I bet
he
knows what he is doing.

Or else he's totally clueless, and just kicks all our collective asses
because of better genetics.

Andy ("extremist") Coggan



No one's genetics are that good.

"Andy Coggan" wrote in message ink.net...
"DanSchmatz" wrote in message
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As we are all just suckers and Lance is a World and Tour champion I bet he
knows what he is doing.

Or else he's totally clueless, and just kicks all our collective asses
because of better genetics.

Andy ("extremist") Coggan

No, no when he was 16 and kicking all the local elite's asses it was
because he already had his training dialed in! I would guess that
once you're following any kind of standard endurance training program
for more than a couple years that differences between any two rider's
performance are about 80% talent (genetics/development, whatever), 10%
how long you've been at it, and about 10% differences in training/race
preparation.

I've read that Mary Decker-Slaney (sp?) ran a sub-5 minute mile the
very first time she ever ran a mile in middle-school gym class with
absolutely no training.

Rumor is he was following a Ferrari.

yeah, but what kind of draft can one get from a Ferrari? They supposedly don't
offer much assistance.

Man that was weak.
Greg

From: (Andrew Martin):

There is NO WAY that carmichael has his working on hi-end speed work
this time of year for the tour next year. If it was up to Chris -
lance would be doing no intensity this year to prepare for next years
tour.

Follow up: Way. Carmichael? LA reported in apparent big effort behind Vespa, in
hills. Tip for SF?

warren wrote in message ...

Great, but many of the top coaches would suggest that anerobic training
will inhibit the aerobic training you need to do during the fall and
winter. Add the anerobic stuff after a few months of aerobic only.

Lance was probably just doing a little speed work once or twice a week
to maintain most of his fitness before his little ride in SF.

-WG

Motorpacing doesn't have to be anaerobic though.

Wouldn't it be great to have the money to pay someone to get rid of
the headwind for you when you're doing your long winter miles?