YO, GBA (Gigantic Blog Audience) as you will be called henceforth, this article was sent over by GBA member in excellent standing FW, and is required reading. That is all I need to say. The rest is in the link below the scar photo as penned by Sally Jenkins: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032501895.html?referrer=emailarticle
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Noted by George Hincapie:
Quote of day:
"If a normal person has this pain in [their] legs, they go to hospital" from my Spanish team [m]ate.
This is my favorite quote from the article, look at the power to weight numbers closely and really consider what they represent. Just WOW.
"There are two reasons why Armstrong is so good at dealing with pain. One is his extraordinary physique: According to the results of a study by Austin-based researcher Edward F. Coyle, who tested Armstrong over a seven-year period, his body is genetically fortunate; it simply responds well to severe duress and deprivation. In training he was able to annually lower his weight and body fat by 7 percent, and to improve his power output by a stunning 18 percent. As Coyle wrote in the conclusion of his paper, "Improved Muscular Efficiency Displayed as Tour de France Champion Matures," Journal of Applied Physiology, March 2005, "Clearly, this champion embodies a phenomenon of both genetic natural selection and the extreme to which the human can adapt to endurance training."
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
The five S's of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit;
but the greatest of these is Spirit.
--Ken Doherty
FW: you must be using twitter. right? ej
what about 'shovel'? mess up your training and hit yourself with a shovel. I know, it sounds like it wouldn't work.
Yeah, that was a Hincapie tweet.
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