Just before the Tour de France started I read John Wilcockson’s biography of Lance Armstrong entitled Lance – The making of the World’s Greatest Champion. I have been fascinated by Lance Armstrong since he came on the scene ion world cycling in the early 90’s. His story is in so many ways is the classic American rags to riches success story that makes you feel good. All the details of his [...]

Check out this very thought provoking interview answer by Lance Armstrong about the differences between suspended dopers who are repentful and those who are not. I was REALLY impressed by how well the guy speaks and thinks on the spot. His talk raises some interesting questions about how we should handle athletes who are caught doping but refuse to admit their guilt; and also about how open we sho [...]

This article from the NY Times is almost too good to be true. I was almost in tears reading this. I am a sucker for the underdog and the unknown, but this tops them all. I am know who I am rooting for. It’s almost like this guy is the anti A Rod or Lance Armstrong. Here's an excerpt:Those who have heard the tale of Svein Tuft have wondered, could it possibly be true?How he dropped out of s [...]

Apparently, cycling legend and come-backing cyclist, Lance Armstrong, has plans to do an Ironman triathlon once his cycling comeback is over. That's some serious training, even for a guy who's known to be a training beast. An ironman consists of a swim of 3.8 km (2.4 miles), bike of 180 km (112 miles) and a run of 42.2 km (a full 26.2 mile marathon). The best of the best finish in around 8 hours [...]

Apparently, the greatest cyclist of all time, Lance Armstrong, is making a comeback. He intends to ride in the 2009 Tour de France. This is interesting and provides for some more discussion material on the differences between seemingly similar sports. Like track, cycling is a physical performance based sport (rather than strategy, gamesmanship, team oriented sports, etc) that is generally quantita [...]

So much for not taking this seriously. Lance Armstrong has stated his intent to use performance enhancers for tomorrow's NYC marathon attempt. He believes these performance enhancers will help him to run under 7 minute miles for the full 26.2 mile race. Perhaps they will make up for his admitted lack of preparation. I mean even if the guy is a Tour de France god his goal of sub-3 hours is fai [...]

Unless you've been living in a cave you should know that Lance Armstrong will be running the NYC marathon. There's much debate on how fast the champion cyclist will run. No one doubts the guys competitiveness, aerobic capacity or lactate threshold. What has people wondering is his own admission that he hasn't been running all that much. So the big question is....how fast will Lance run [...]

It was interesting to read an Interview with Lance Armstrong about his preparation for the New York Marathon. First I was struck with how haphazard his preparation was compared to his methodical preparation in cycling. On second thought it makes sense in that he is now a ‘retired’ athlete. What really jumps out is that this guy is all about competition. He competes in everything he doe [...]

In yesterdays NY Times (Sept 22, 2005 page E10) there was an interesting article on a commercial concept termed “Body Mapping.” Facilities are licensed for $300.000 a month to use an analysis to assess static posture based on an over head squat movement. I wish it were so simple. Posture is not static so, there is fundamental flaw in the assumption that it is possible to assess muscle [...]

Jeremy Wariner: Atypical AmericanI love track. I'm passionate about it. There's nothing I'd rather do than coach track and field. Watching elite level track and field doesn't rank far behind. So why I've wondered, am I and others like me so rare in this country the very same country with the most dominant track and field team in the world? While there are certainly a multitude of explanations [...]