freecounterpoint: Serious Cross-Training

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Serious Cross-Training

5 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...: For a first try at an event pretty damn different from bike racing [in terms of how the body is used], he did creditably. But once done, why do again? The pain here ain't worth the gain.; 11/05/2006 6:49 PM
Mr roT said...: He started out in triathalon. Let's see him kick ass in swimming now.
BTW, under 3 hours is better than creditably, no?; 11/05/2006 7:49 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: I was thinking in terms of top-notch athlestes, not blokes like us. My younger brother trained hard for two years to get Marathon ready, but his best time was 3:01. On the other hand, my brother has participated only in the old fashioned kind of tour de france.; 11/05/2006 11:25 PM
Mr roT said...: Right. One problem is that as a bikie he's waaaaayyy too built up in the shoulders and abdomen. Weigh the poor guy down. That resting heart rate of 30 bpm probably doesn't hurt, though.; 11/06/2006 12:03 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Right JJ: that running business is high-impact on the knees and ankles and everything below the hips, regardless of whether one is Pheidippides or Armstrong. Still, I'd put my money on the latter: Lance only needed one nut to run a marathon in under three hours.

Check out this wikipedia quote:

"The Greeks staged a selection race for the Olympic marathon, and this first marathon was won by Charilaos Vasilakos in 3 hours and 18 minutes. Spiridon "Spiros" Louis, a Greek shepherd, finished fifth in this race but won at the Olympics in 2 hours, 58 minutes and 50 seconds, despite stopping on the way for a glass of wine from his uncle waiting near the village of Chalandri."

That's awesome.; 11/06/2006 7:28 PM

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