jaja wrote:
The mecanical part is very important. A good tendon implantation for biking is often a very bad one for running.
Actually good runner are easier to convert in good biker than the opposite.
That why do most sucessful triathletes come from the cycling community and not the running community (see Armstrong, his strength in Tris was cycling which is why he never became a runner).
Mottram was good at tris too!
Other than Armstrong who can you name that came from a cycling background to be an elite triathlete? It's way more likely to happen the other way around.
The "other" Kristen Armstrong (not lance's wife) won '06 UCI World TT Championships and was '04 Oly medalist after being swimmer turned triathlete turned cylist.
Way more athletes who come from single sport backgrounds to triathlon (primarily americans) come from a swimming background. It is by far the most technical of the three events and thus the hardest to master.
brown? wrote:
This is the dumbist topic going around.
Stifle yourself.
Why don't you sleep in the street tonight?
Thank you.
Actually, Lance *can* beat one or both--if he starts, and the other guys start, and one or both of them DNF's.
If you finish, and other starters don't, then you beat them. I was DFL, all the way, in my first 50k, and still beat 60% of the field...and in my first marathon, I beat a guy who ran in the Olympic Trials that year.
I can't believe people are actually taking this thread seriously.
Vegas odds on Armstrong winning are 5 to 4? Wanna pay off those college loans? Get your money out boys and put it down on this one.
new zealander was a good cyclist, who started running in his late 30's and ran 211 at age 40-41, finished 6th overall in the new york marathon at age 46 and ran 220 at age 50, supposedely on only 3 days a week running (usually 15-20 miles per run) and cycling the other 4 days 2-4 hours at a time.
sorry i forgot to mention the mans name, it was jack foster.
two wrote:
VO2 Max is best measured in the specific sport one participates in, so what a XC skier runs a 10Km in is irrelevant. That is akin to saying "ohh tergat has a high VO2 max and he still sucks at XC skiing".
Also the scores for V02 max tests can be fairly unreliable, and to add to that many of them seem to be exagerated for the sake of a good story - Would like to see a reference for the XC skiier, although it is believable.
No VO2 max is not the only determinant of athletic ability, but does having a high VO2 max help - yes.
To answer the original question:
Ofcourse Lance will beat Ritz and Tergat.. He has a higher VO2 max for gods sake!
Of course it´s irrelevant! That was my point! Just as it is completely irrelevant what aerobic capacity Lance has (or rather had). He is not a runner!