Where I would fit in...

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Me: 1.81m, 62 kg ( You actually)

Your colsest match:

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Ludovic Martin (RAGT): 1.82m, 64 kg

oops! RAGT!

OK, so what is your 1 hour watt output average?

"Sonarrat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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As part of my ongoing vanity trip, using an online avoirdupois-metric
conversion and the tdf.olntv.com website, I've once again stacked my

(highly

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unusual) physical measurements against the riders in the Tour to see if I
have a physical twin anywhere.

Me: 1.81m, 62 kg
Michael Boogerd: 1.79m, 62 kg
Sandy Casar (FDJ): 1.79m, 63 kg
Ludovic Martin (RAGT): 1.82m, 64 kg
Juan Miguel Mercado (Illes Balears): 1.78m, 58 kg (!)
Jean-Cyril Robin (FDJ): 1.79m, 63 kg
Stéphane Goubert (AG2R): 1.78m, 64 kg
Grischa Niermann (Rabobank): 1.78m, 63 kg
Manuel Beltran (USP): 1.78m, 60 kg
Richard Virenque (Quick.Step): 1.79m, 65 kg

I dunno... seems like an awful lot of Frenchies. Seems like most riders

my

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height are 8-15 kg heavier than I am. It seems, based on that list, that

my

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BMI range would be associated with peaky, inconsistent form and if I

gained

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20 pounds I'd almost be better off.

Then again, how many of you Freds can say you weigh less than Sandy Casar?
😉

(Yes, I know I won't stay that way forever)

-Sonarrat.

in article [email hidden], Shussbar at
[email hidden] wrote on 7/19/04 8:42 PM:

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Me: 1.81m, 62 kg ( You actually)

Your colsest match:

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Ludovic Martin (RAGT): 1.82m, 64 kg

oops! RAGT!

Michael Boogerd is closer, I think. In style also, because I suffer
mightily on the flats, storm up hills and run out of steam before the top...

-Sonarrat.

in article [email hidden], IMKen at
[email hidden] wrote on 7/19/04 9:42 PM:

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OK, so what is your 1 hour watt output average?

I have no idea. Where would I go, or what would I do, to find out?

-Sonarrat.

Sonarrat said:

IMKen at [email hidden] wrote on 7/19/04 9:42 PM:

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OK, so what is your 1 hour watt output average?

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I have no idea. Where would I go, or what would I do, to find out?

Find a reasonably even gradient climb of known length and height
and time yourself up it on a windless day. You can get the length
from a bike computer and height from a topo map. See the "Let's get
real" thread for examples. Plug the numbers into
www.analyticcycling.com in the "Power given Speed" page.

There are other ways that involve spending money on powermeter
gadgets, but this is the cheap and fairly accurate method.

Sonarrat said:

Me: 1.81m, 62 kg

http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/tdf04-bmi.png

Based on official TdF data (i.e., don't trust the given weights)

"Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Sonarrat said:

Me: 1.81m, 62 kg

http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/tdf04-bmi.png

Based on official TdF data (i.e., don't trust the given weights)

Mine's 25. Does that mean that I should be able to climb like a doper?

Tom Kunich said:

"Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote

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http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/tdf04-bmi.png
Based on official TdF data (i.e., don't trust the given weights)

Mine's 25. Does that mean that I should be able to climb like a doper?

Close. You already write like a dope.

"Sonarrat" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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As part of my ongoing vanity trip, using an online avoirdupois-metric
conversion and the tdf.olntv.com website, I've once again stacked my

(highly

Quoted message said:

unusual) physical measurements against the riders in the Tour to see if I
have a physical twin anywhere.

Me: 1.81m, 62 kg
Michael Boogerd: 1.79m, 62 kg
Sandy Casar (FDJ): 1.79m, 63 kg
Ludovic Martin (RAGT): 1.82m, 64 kg
Juan Miguel Mercado (Illes Balears): 1.78m, 58 kg (!)
Jean-Cyril Robin (FDJ): 1.79m, 63 kg
Stéphane Goubert (AG2R): 1.78m, 64 kg
Grischa Niermann (Rabobank): 1.78m, 63 kg
Manuel Beltran (USP): 1.78m, 60 kg
Richard Virenque (Quick.Step): 1.79m, 65 kg

I dunno... seems like an awful lot of Frenchies. Seems like most riders

my

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height are 8-15 kg heavier than I am. It seems, based on that list, that

my

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BMI range would be associated with peaky, inconsistent form and if I

gained

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20 pounds I'd almost be better off.

Then again, how many of you Freds can say you weigh less than Sandy Casar?
😉

(Yes, I know I won't stay that way forever)

-Sonarrat.

I found that the closest for me was simoni-five feet five and 130 lbs, about
five lbs heavier than I. For a guy, I guess he's a shrimp!

"Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Tom Kunich said:

"Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote

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http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/tdf04-bmi.png
Based on official TdF data (i.e., don't trust the given weights)

Mine's 25. Does that mean that I should be able to climb like a doper?

Close. You already write like a dope.

If you'd have missed an opening like that you'd have become the laughing
stock of RBR displacing Palachick.

"Tom Kunich" wrote...

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If you'd have missed an opening like that you'd have become the laughing
stock of RBR displacing Palachick.

Now you know it wouldn't be Palachick who'd be displaced, Tom.

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Sonarrat said:

IMKen at [email hidden] wrote on 7/19/04 9:42 PM:

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OK, so what is your 1 hour watt output average?

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I have no idea. Where would I go, or what would I do, to find out?

Find a reasonably even gradient climb of known length and height
and time yourself up it on a windless day. You can get the length
from a bike computer and height from a topo map. See the "Let's get
real" thread for examples. Plug the numbers into
www.analyticcycling.com in the "Power given Speed" page.

There are other ways that involve spending money on powermeter
gadgets, but this is the cheap and fairly accurate method.

I can tell you at any rate, the number's not going to be very high.
Although I have the will to dedicate myself to the sport, and although
I am physically and psychologically able to ride long and hard, I am
too addicted to RBR to actually do it.

It won't keep me from dreaming of the Ardennes classics... and maybe
if I rip that power cord out, I will even make it there.

-Sonarrat.

Tom Kunich said:

"Robert Chung" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/tdf04-bmi.png

Based on official TdF data (i.e., don't trust the given weights)

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Mine's 25. Does that mean that I should be able to climb like a doper?

Dunno. Is that your BMI, or your wattage at lactate threshold?

"Shussbar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Me: 1.81m, 62 kg ( You actually)

Your colsest match:

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Ludovic Martin (RAGT): 1.82m, 64 kg

oops! RAGT!

Reflecting on today's stage, maybe not so bad after all...

-Sonarrat.