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On Jan 4, 2:37*pm, Anton Berlin wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 Untrained Kenyan cyclists ride the Alpe No, of course it hasn't been covered. J. Page and his loathe-to-admit- his-man-crush simian have been taking up the bandwidth. This could be interesting. Guys that live at 2K meters, naturally have 6% body fat, and like to do loooooooooong miles. They'd get much more...errr....mileage out of riding in the Tour and doing comparatively well. R |
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:37:32 -0800 (PST), Anton Berlin
wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 Untrained Kenyan cyclists ride the Alpe From the article "Zakayo and Myangi rode in a traditional Thursday morning mass time-trial. After a hugely promising 46-minute opening stab, they emerged with best times of 42 minutes for Zackary and 43 minutes for Myangi. These would have placed the riders comfortably within the top 50 in the 2004 Tour de France time trial, five minutes down on Lance Armstrong's winning mark that year." Whoa |
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RicodJour wrote:
This could be interesting. Guys that live at 2K meters, naturally have 6% body fat, and like to do loooooooooong miles. They'd get much more...errr....mileage out of riding in the Tour and doing comparatively well. But they'd first have to not do a Mayo and get dropped or crashed in the first flat week. |
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John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:37:32 -0800 (PST), Anton Berlin wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 From the article "Zakayo and Myangi rode in a traditional Thursday morning mass time-trial. After a hugely promising 46-minute opening stab, they emerged with best times of 42 minutes for Zackary and 43 minutes for Myangi. These would have placed the riders comfortably within the top 50 in the 2004 Tour de France time trial, five minutes down on Lance Armstrong's winning mark that year." Whoa Wait, what they mean is that the top 50 is within 5 minutes, not that they are 5 minutes down on Armstrong: 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal p/b Berry Floor 39:41 (23.44 km/h) 50 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère + 4:57 I wonder if they timed it all the way up at the Tour finish, or stopped at the Office du Tourisme in Huez, where there's a banner over the street. That's about 3 minutes. |
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Susan Walker wrote:
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:37:32 -0800 (PST), Anton Berlin wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 From the article "Zakayo and Myangi rode in a traditional Thursday morning mass time-trial. After a hugely promising 46-minute opening stab, they emerged with best times of 42 minutes for Zackary and 43 minutes for Myangi. These would have placed the riders comfortably within the top 50 in the 2004 Tour de France time trial, five minutes down on Lance Armstrong's winning mark that year." Whoa Wait, what they mean is that the top 50 is within 5 minutes, not that they are 5 minutes down on Armstrong: 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal p/b Berry Floor 39:41 (23.44 km/h) 50 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère + 4:57 I wonder if they timed it all the way up at the Tour finish, or stopped at the Office du Tourisme in Huez, where there's a banner over the street. That's about 3 minutes. Dopers. |
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On Jan 4, 5:49*pm, Susan Walker wrote:
John Forrest Tomlinson wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:37:32 -0800 (PST), Anton Berlin wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 From the article "Zakayo and Myangi rode in a traditional Thursday morning mass time-trial. After a hugely promising 46-minute opening stab, they emerged with best times of 42 minutes for Zackary and 43 minutes for Myangi. These would have placed the riders comfortably within the top 50 in the 2004 Tour de France time trial, five minutes down on Lance Armstrong's winning mark that year." Whoa Wait, what they mean is that the top 50 is within 5 minutes, not that they are 5 minutes down on Armstrong: * 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal p/b Berry Floor *39:41 (23.44 km/h) 50 Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangère * *+ 4:57 Yes. If armstrong's time was 39:41 and their times were 42 and 43 minutes they are within 3 and 4 minutes of armstrong. |
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On Jan 4, 11:37*am, Anton Berlin wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 Untrained Kenyan cyclists ride the Alpe Dumbass - I'd imagine it's going to happen someday, but they'd have to give the prospective rider a 2 or 3 year (or more) primer on learning how to ride in a pack otherwise they're just gonna get dropped in the flat stages. In the TdF those stages are no joke. The novice dudes would probably be more suited to riding the Giro. thanks, K. Gringioni. |
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On Jan 4, 1:37*pm, Anton Berlin wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 Untrained Kenyan cyclists ride the Alpe Bahati must be behind this. -rj |
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On Jan 4, 7:25*pm, ronaldo_jeremiah
wrote: On Jan 4, 1:37*pm, Anton Berlin wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog...rance.cycling1 Untrained Kenyan cyclists ride the Alpe Bahati must be behind this. -rj it might be just a matter of time before pro teams start to notice and start to cherry pick some of the best from africa; would be great too |
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