Want to race the Tour de France this year. Any advice on how best to train for it?

EPO and testosterone would be a good start. You should take some bags of blood out before you start microdosing, so you can then put them back in during the race for some additional red blood cells

good luck!

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Be sure to get a big-a$$ water back-pack thingy. I've considered the TDF but realized there's no finisher medals

Your mileage no where close to what it should be. You are riding about 65 miles a week. Too little. Try to up mileage to at least -110 miles a week.

The three most important things to win:

4 to 6 hours of cycling a day

Whole food plant based diet

Italian doctor to dope you up

letsbiketroll.com ??

That sounds like a good plan.

I am planning on winning the Berlin marathon this year.

I am up to 3 hours/week of training and have already bought some Hokas.

We can do it!!

You must purchase a bell to let the other riders know you are about to pass them .

Streamers for the handlebars will help provide better aerodynamics and help reduce the drag coefficient on the bike to make those hills effortless.

How high up your calves do your socks come? The current sock length science dictates crew length coming up to the base of the soleus. Any lower and you look like a tennis player, any higher and you look like a school girl.

Are you asthmatic? That can help a lot.

Back when I worked at USA Cycling, I would get calls from parents usually about 2 years out from the Olympics asking how their son (almost always a son) could make the Olympic cycling team for the upcoming Olympics. Often the kid was under 16.

(The receptionist often sent me the calls she did not know what to do with and our national team coaches were never in the office and would never respond if they were).

Often the kid had never raced a bike other than his friends down the street. So I would go through a short explanation that he really needed to join a club or find a local cycling coach and start training but that most of our male road cyclists were in their late 20s/early 30s. Too often the parent (dads mostly) would say "Yeah, but he is REALLY fast."

The Giro d'Italia is earlier in the year and serves as a warmup. Try and finish on the top 5 though, as it will boost your confidence for the French race. You might as well do the Vuelta Espana, towards the end of the season. In for a penny, in for a pound. The World Championships will be soon after that and if your tyres are still okay, you might have a go at the road race and time trials.

This reminds me of when I saw a comment asking how to register for the race in an article about the Olympic marathon

Mingle with the Team Sky riders enough so that you can contract severe asthma and kidney failure and then you will become a world beater.

The TdF? The real deal TdF?Are you serious? Do you have any idea how that works? No, you don’t.

It’s by team invitation only and based on your post, you are not even close to be close at that level.

Donyiyo wrote:

The TdF? The real deal TdF?Are you serious? Do you have any idea how that works? No, you don’t.

It’s by team invitation only and based on your post, you are not even close to be close at that level.

Hey twerp , this is where dreams become reality , and you come on here stomping on his .

Shame on you !!!!!!!

Safety first wrote:

Donyiyo wrote:

The TdF? The real deal TdF?Are you serious? Do you have any idea how that works? No, you don’t.

It’s by team invitation only and based on your post, you are not even close to be close at that level.

Hey twerp , this is where dreams become reality , and you come on here stomping on his .

Shame on you !!!!!!!

Chris Froome admits in his autobiography, that he was never selected for the Kenyan cycling team. So he hacked the President of the Cycling Federation's email account, and through deception, got to start the 2006 World Cycling Championships. He immediately illustrated his lack of credentials by crashing into the first official on the course.

Nevertheless, through his "determination to win", Froomey has overcome the handicapped of not being able to cycle very fast naturally, with a raft of excuses to take performance-enhancing substances.

Give a Lance a call?