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- ********0
huh what's the Tour De France, he hee ;)
- unknown0
When I used to race road bikes, I'd get so pumped to ride after watching the stages. At the height of training and getting ready to race in USCF, I was riding 175 miles a week and had a best time of 1:14:36 in a 25 mile road race, close to 100 degrees Texas heat. Miss that too much.
- ********0
wow that's fast nice! ;)
- ********0
mg33..
25miles in 1:14:36 for a road race? What CAT was that?
- unknown0
Antonelli-Are you asking what category in USCF?
If so, I wasn't in USCF yet. This was just a "ride" that was a very popular one in Ft. Worth Texas, they had a 10, 25, 50 mile and 100K race. I wouldn't say it was a competition between everyone, but I was quite competitive with myself and knocked 4 1/2 minutes off my time from the year before.
I think that was summer after 9th grade, I rode 175 miles a week, good training schedule with days for sprints, climbing, and had played football in school that year and worked out quite a bit.I was set to join USCF that summer, but I had started playing guitar and sort of lost interest once I started playing in a band. I miss it terribly, all I used to think about was being a pro cyclist. Had a nice set up, disk wheel, aerobar, wore all the Team Z stuff that LeMond wore when riding for them. :)
- BonSeff0
lance armstrongs coach will be on the jim rome radio show today, calling in from france
find the station here, am radio..
http://www.jimrome.com/home/apr/…its on the air from 11-2pm central
- unknown0
Lance Rules!!!!!
:P
- BonSeff0
the interview is on in 5 min
- unknown0
no radio at work... :(
Chris Carmichael right?
- fred0
- BonSeff0
yup - ill try to summerize when over
- altamont0
i, like mg33 used to race in jr high/high school/college in texas...it was my freakin' life for like 12 years...while everyone else was practicing football after high school, i'd be changing and heading out for 50-60 miles in central texas before dinner.
i remember state road championships in those days...lance would show up for that shit, and the race was always for second place...he was quite the little shit back then...
but, man, that brother was such an inspiration even then...when i was out alone doing 100 mile rides...with leg breaking intervals...he was the invisible rider i was chasing...
i say god bless that dude...and god bless bike racing...those were honestly the best days of my life.
- BonSeff0
he basically spoke to lances earlier career in how gifted lance is. and how winning was easy and lance wasnt too motivated because he was so talented and was fine with his 2 mill a year. he said lance needed a couple kicks in the ass to get motivated back then.
then came the cancer and now he beleives lance is the hardest working athelete in the world.
one the cancer was in remission he said that lance pulled over from a race and decided to quit and charmichael said he owed it to the sport that saved his live to get back in there.
basically he says lance is badassand he feels the tour is won or lost in the mountains and expects lance to run a mock tomorrow..
- unknown0
nice post altamont. I lived in Keller, between Dallas and Ft. Worth. Miles of country roads with very few cars, some long gradual hills and really good riding.
I miss that now that I live in Chicago. If you're still in Texas, trust me, it's a big change from suburbs/Texas to living 5 miles from the Sears Tower and heart of downtown, public transportation, etc.I remember when LeMond was winning, Lance had just won the world championship and there was this short article in Bicycling about him. I remember then how it said he was "the only American hope to win the Tour" for years after LeMond lost dominance.
How right they were.
I used to love that LeMond frame that was the blue/red/yellow fade, had pics of him on my walls and read Bicycling like a bible, making training schedules, finding new ways to ride, new techniques climbing and sprinting.
When visiting my Mom in Boston during the summers, twice I had my bike up there, great riding through hills and some tough climbs for that area. Rode from Mass to New Hampshire every day as they were very close to the border.
I wish I had started in USCF, I think that competitve aspect would have kept my interest.
- altamont0
yeah bro...i'm in brooklyn now...miles from those country roads...i used tro have a girlfriend who lived in edina, mn...not too far from wayzata...lemond's home...i was always like "yeah baby, i need to come up and visit you"...all the time thinking i'd just go stalk lemond!!! :)
it was truly a great way of life...i kinda traded that for general fuckin' around for about 5 years...but, finally moved to nyc...started my own design biz last year, play in a band with my girlfriend...and am finally feeling like life is starting to be a little more liberating...like those old days...
vive le tour!
- unknown0
Carty---do you do trials? I forgot all about that stuff until I bought a mountain bike a few weeks back. I used to want to get into that when I was younger, now I'm just trying to adapt certain aspects of it into biking around the city. I showed my girlfriend some videos on a trials site to show her what it was, I think she asked, "Why do they have to have the wheels move, all they do is hop around?"
hehe
- eman0
Eddy Merckx rules !
- Jamesh0
Here in Austin everyone has 'GO LANCE' signs on their cars.
These people are silly over it!
- altamont0
hey james...not to bust up the TDF / go lance vibe and all, but you should hit up a couple of my boys in austin...kalani kordus and billy hayes...check out http://www.kordusmediadesign.com…
just trying to spread the love amongst bretheren
- OBBTKN1
Abraham Olano and Miguel Indurain were the best...
Armstrong is like a horse doping powered guy.
No SUPERMAN
TESTOMAN;))