Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
I was impressed by his 3.51 hundred the other day - great stuff.
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I was impressed by his 3.51 hundred the other day - great stuff.
Glanders
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- Mar 12, 2012
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That is a wonderful photo! Must be great to have raced at that level and have that connection with what's going on now.
Thanks for the big up Moto, but at the wrong side of 40, I fear that reports of my dual carriageway 'exploits' will forever be restricted to Strava and the Sussex Express! I was seriously chuffed with my 100 the other day and it's got me dreaming of a decent 12hr and 50 to go with it, but it's really just nice to have some decent form after training pretty hard for a while. Goes without saying that it's all at a very different level from what IL was up to in his misspent youth!
Thanks for the big up Moto, but at the wrong side of 40, I fear that reports of my dual carriageway 'exploits' will forever be restricted to Strava and the Sussex Express! I was seriously chuffed with my 100 the other day and it's got me dreaming of a decent 12hr and 50 to go with it, but it's really just nice to have some decent form after training pretty hard for a while. Goes without saying that it's all at a very different level from what IL was up to in his misspent youth!
He isn't going to tell you himself, as i seem to remember getting IL's palmares out of him was akind to pulling teeth, I will!!
Its not just youth cycling, the boy Indurains Lungs has GB representation right through to under 23 level.
But unfortunately for him this was at the very point when our cyclist federation was the jokeist of very bad jokes.
The fact that Brad succeeded at that time is a well documented miracle, unlike all the success since.
Hey [MENTION=12656]Pantani[/MENTION] I didn't realise this was a joint cinema and DVD release:-
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Motogull
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Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
Rode up to Junior level with GB on road and track but not at U23 level - international races I did at that level were for SE regional teams over in Belgium.
It was right at the start of the World Class Performance Plan so I think things were a little better than they had been a few years before (not the kit colour of course!!). There wasn't a lot of organisation but Mike Taylor was enthusiastic on limited resources (if you've read David Millar's book you'll see how supportive he was to him). Millar is quite right about him, he was very old school but very encouraging - I remember him telling us to go out for a 4 hour ride the day before the Tour of Austria (even our longest races didn't last that long!).
At the end of my Junior year there was a bit of a shake up and a selection was made for the levels of support in the WCPP - I went for testing in Manchester but it was January and raw numbers were never my strength so was overlooked. The selection was based on a watts/kg at the end of a ramp test so I'd been trying to lose weight over the winter and got down to 62kg (5% body fat) and felt like shit. The only feedback from the test was that I should lose a bit more weight!!! I continued racing off my own back but had no contact from British Cycling ever again.
It is probably that lack of contact that has improved most over the years. I was picked up for the track squad and the Junior track coach was Marshall Thomas; he was the only guy who ever really took an interest and helped with training advice etc. It wasn't until I won the first National series race the following year that the road team took notice and even then I had no contact until August of that year. At no time did anyone ask what we were doing in training, what our racing plan was and there was no input about how to target the international races.
In some ways, I'm glad it worked out how it did - nowadays I might have wasted several years trying to make it through the British system and then being stuck somewhere in my mid-20s having not gone to University. However, I'm sure the lack of guidance in my first senior year is the reason I didn't ride a bike again for 10 years - its a miserable existence when you're slogging away in Premier Calendars without any support or encouragement from a team/coach.
This popped up on the geek twitter feed:-
http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/article/shimano-sport-camera-cm-1000-just-in-41193/
Somewhat out of your price range, but there's some links, that might interest, at the bottom of the article.
Is cycling the world's worst spectator sport?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...cycling-the-worlds-worst-spectator-sport.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...cycling-the-worlds-worst-spectator-sport.html
Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
Even as a fan, watching a flat road stage from the road side is of limited interest!!!
Glanders
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Thanks for that resume IL - I feel like I'm properly up to speed now! Seems like your only mistake was being born a few years too early? That said, given the farce that pro cycling was descending into at that point, maybe you had a lucky escape? Either way, it sounds like you gave it a really good go and that must be a source of immense satisfaction. NSC geek royalty!
Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
Yes, it could have got messy!!
It is very satisfying, though it means I feel fat, slow and unfit every time I get on a bike these days!!!!
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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Ooh, very strong break getting away so far. All the usual suspects among them - Arredondo, Cataldo, Duarte, Deignan, Wellens etc. But also Pellizotti and Sir Thomas of De Gendt too.
So, De Gendt in the break as well yesterday - does this mean OPQS have admitted defeat and no longer need him to work for Uran?
So, De Gendt in the break as well yesterday - does this mean OPQS have admitted defeat and no longer need him to work for Uran?
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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Old man Basso trying to make it across to the break too 
Edit: Live link here as Eurosport don't go live until 1.30pm
http://www.stream-foot.tv/stream/ch1.php
Edit: Live link here as Eurosport don't go live until 1.30pm
http://www.stream-foot.tv/stream/ch1.php
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TheJasperCo
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Could be worse, could be watching darts!
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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I am currently convincing myself that this Giro and today's stage in particular is amazingly clean.
The yo-yoing on the front with nobody being able to make any attack stick is classic 'normal' racing.
The fact that 2 'typical' Colombians finally pull out the win, underlines that.
Plus the riders who looked dead and buried weren't ridden away from.
Tell me I'm wrong, so my hopes can be dashed before the media storm!!
The yo-yoing on the front with nobody being able to make any attack stick is classic 'normal' racing.
The fact that 2 'typical' Colombians finally pull out the win, underlines that.
Plus the riders who looked dead and buried weren't ridden away from.
Tell me I'm wrong, so my hopes can be dashed before the media storm!!
Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
You may be right. Aru's data showed him at 5.8w/kg for the 40 minute final climb - very physiological.
1066familyman
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So assuming things really are as clean as they've ever been, does this mean the gaps are likely to be smaller tomorrow than they usually would on this kind of MTT?
Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
Depends, I suppose, if it's a level playing field. If everyone is on the stuff then the gaps might not be so big!