Raptor said:Genetic gifts aside, what's reasonable to expect of the typical
human's
Quoted message said:potential in terms of cycling performance?
For example, could pretty much any able-bodied human train themselves
Quoted message said:into condition to ride a 4-hour century, given adequate time and
motivation? I'd say 5 hours definitely, but 4 might be a stretch.--
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Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"
Back in my running days it became apparent that despite my high level
of fitness I was just plain slow for racing. While marathon training
with much better runners I had no trouble staying with the group for
runs of 2 hours. But the pace of those runs were in the 7 minute a mile
range. The problem for me was not finess it was speed. I never ran a
mile faster than 5:30. But most of the folks I trained with had easily
run sub 5's. So, to keep up in a race I needed to race at a much higher
% of my max speed than my partners. Thus for any given speed I worked
harder and in the end could not hold it as long.
I think the same holds true in cycling.