thread of miguel

dunno what's up with that other thread, here's the real deal

http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/riders/pics/0024719L.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESSSpBUz1o

http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/riders/pics/0024750L.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcK9gTj0kT4

^^the realest - imagine winning a TT by that much these days!

“As a young child we aspire to a lot of things in life, and watching the Tour de France in 1991 and seeing Indurain tear everyone to pieces planted a small seed in my head that continued to grow,” said Evans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnKhhfX5tEQ

so drama - imagine getting beaten by the dude five years in a row and then this happens!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22868823/

Larger declines in maximal and submaximal values relative to body mass (19.4-26.1%) indicate that body composition changed more than aerobic characteristics. Nevertheless, Indurain's absolute maximal and submaximal oxygen uptake and power output values still compare favorably with those exhibited by active professional cyclists.

huh, the benchmark i heard was trained power loss at obla is usually compounded .5%/year after age 35, which gets you to a little over 5% decline/decade, but his is estimated at 19% loss/decade. does he still ride at all? pretty damn sure i just don't understand exercise physiology very well.

under everyone's fave coggan chart and disregarding endurance issues, with those numbers he could be a dece cat 3. and if he went back to 80kg with those numbers, he would be a good 2.

ice cold

http://i.imgur.com/FoV5u.gif