Did anyone else notice that Landis was riding so comfortable without any strain hardly showing on his face? I don't even think he was sweating. He was never pressured, never was he attacked. After the race he had the look of someone who had just woken up very refreshed from a nice nap. He looked like he had been on vacation resting somewhere between Marseilles and Monacco. The other riders were suffering like hell: Menchov, Kloden even looked exhausted, Shleck was burnt at the finish, Axel looked cool and alert but he faded a little with 3 kilometers left. I wish Landis would have returned the bottle to him just for the last sip at least. Landis didn't need any water, any teammates, any pacing; nobody was going to unglue him from their wheel, even though Kloden tried ferociously. How can they recover for tomorrow? It seems inhuman.
Did anyone else notice that Landis was riding so comfortable without any strain hardly showing on his face? I don't even think he was sweating. He was never pressured, never was he attacked. After the race he had the look of someone who had just woken up very refreshed from a nice nap. He looked like he had been on vacation resting somewhere between Marseilles and Monacco. The other riders were suffering like hell: Menchov, Kloden even looked exhausted, Shleck was burnt at the finish, Axel looked cool and alert but he faded a little with 3 kilometers left. I wish Landis would have returned the bottle to him just for the last sip at least. Landis didn't need any water, any teammates, any pacing; nobody was going to unglue him from their wheel, even though Kloden tried ferociously. How can they recover for tomorrow? It seems inhuman.
Did anyone else notice that Landis was riding so comfortable without any strain hardly showing on his face? I don't even think he was sweating. He was never pressured, never was he attacked. After the race he had the look of someone who had just woken up very refreshed from a nice nap. He looked like he had been on vacation resting somewhere between Marseilles and Monacco. The other riders were suffering like hell: Menchov, Kloden even looked exhausted, Shleck was burnt at the finish, Axel looked cool and alert but he faded a little with 3 kilometers left. I wish Landis would have returned the bottle to him just for the last sip at least. Landis didn't need any water, any teammates, any pacing; nobody was going to unglue him from their wheel, even though Kloden tried ferociously. How can they recover for tomorrow? It seems inhuman.
Testo patches, in fact Kloden got a headstart with that big blue patch on his arm on the climb up the Alpe !
"Keith" <[email hidden]> a écrit dans le message de news: [email hidden]... | On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:44:32 -0400, bob sullivan | <[email hidden]> wrote: | | >In the immortal words of John Lovitz: | > | >"Acting! Genius! Thank you!" | > | >~bob | > | >Andre wrote: | >> Did anyone else notice that Landis was riding so comfortable without | >> any strain hardly showing on his face? I don't even think he was | >> sweating. He was never pressured, never was he attacked. After the race | >> he had the look of someone who had just woken up very refreshed from a | >> nice nap. He looked like he had been on vacation resting somewhere | >> between Marseilles and Monacco. The other riders were suffering like | >> hell: Menchov, Kloden even looked exhausted, Shleck was burnt at the | >> finish, Axel looked cool and alert but he faded a little with 3 | >> kilometers left. I wish Landis would have returned the bottle to him | >> just for the last sip at least. Landis didn't need any water, any | >> teammates, any pacing; nobody was going to unglue him from their wheel, | >> even though Kloden tried ferociously. How can they recover for | >> tomorrow? It seems inhuman. | | Testo patches, in fact Kloden got a headstart with that big blue patch | on his arm on the climb up the Alpe ! | | >> | >> Andre
Oh. That explains why he didn't pick up any time on Kloden.
Did anyone else notice that Landis was riding so comfortable without any strain hardly showing on his face? I don't even think he was sweating. He was never pressured, never was he attacked. After the race he had the look of someone who had just woken up very refreshed from a nice nap. He looked like he had been on vacation resting somewhere between Marseilles and Monacco. The other riders were suffering like hell: Menchov, Kloden even looked exhausted, Shleck was burnt at the finish, Axel looked cool and alert but he faded a little with 3 kilometers left. I wish Landis would have returned the bottle to him just for the last sip at least. Landis didn't need any water, any teammates, any pacing; nobody was going to unglue him from their wheel, even though Kloden tried ferociously. How can they recover for tomorrow? It seems inhuman.
Dumbass -
It's the same nearly every year.
If someone is even 0.5% stronger than the next closest guy, he gets his lead, then gets to follow wheels as weaker riders than he try unsuccessfully to ride him off their wheel. The weaker riders get progressively weaker as they put out more energy stage by stage.
It's a symptom of the shallow-ish climbs of the TdF (relative to the Giro or the Vuelta) where the riders go fast enough that drafting is significant.
