Lance Armstrong 5k

Lance Armstrong was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.

If you try to introduce your mother to Lance Armstrong, she'll introduce you to your biological father.

running was his weakness when he was a triathlete. say what you will about his fitness and maturity compared to then vs now but the fact remains he was a 2nd tier pro triathlete despite being a decent swimmer and one of the best cyclists (no he did not always put up the fastest bike splits, Pigg and others were consistently faster)

can you say DRUGGIE!!!!!

sure he can kick ass in an ironman ... (IPO)

sure he can run under 3 hours ... (IPO)

sure he can win TdF ... (IPO)

he has drug companies begging him to use their latest (cheat) products.

NUFF SAID!

I can't believe this tired ass thread is still alive. Just stop. Stop, I demand you!

2nd tier pro??? the guy actually beat pigg to win the national sprint triathlon championships in 89. and this was at 18 years of age, as a junior. he left the sport before he actually got in the age when others start to compete seriously on the open level.

pigg and others were not consistently faster. yeah, perhaps when armstrong was a 16 year old. but it is not to hard beating a 16 year old for a seasoned pro like pigg, is it? actually it should be as easy to beat an 18 yo, but it obviously wasn't.

btw, in that sprint triathlon he came of the bike with a lead and HELD that lead on the run against 30-31min 10k runners.

stoned wrote:

can you say DRUGGIE!!!!!

sure he can kick ass in an ironman ... (IPO)

sure he can run under 3 hours ... (IPO)

sure he can win TdF ... (IPO)

he has drug companies begging him to use their latest (cheat) products.

NUFF SAID!

You F*ckin moron...it is EPO not IPO. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Lance Armstrong sleeps with a night light in his room. Not because he is afraid of the dark, but because the dark is afraid of him. Now why would someone that badass take EPO? He wouldn't!

OK the sprint nationals one season and yeah the tired old story about going neck and neck with Allen and Scott when only he was 16 and they were probably in the midst of a 500 mile cycling week. name another race or two where LA performed like anything other than 2nd tier.

you don't get it, huh? the guy was a KID when he left the sport of triathlon. when he won the championship at 18, he was on the jump to pro cycling.

he actually placed top 5 in the sprint triathlon champs the two years before, and he won some of the highly decorated bud light series.

"2nd tier" would apply to a 30 yo who never places top 30 in races or championships. you seem to confuse it with "2nd place finisher".

Oh great. Not only do I have to put up with uncivil discourse on this list, but I can't reply to "Jon Orange" directly.

So I say, and ask of all, who has a knowledgable way to compare running to cycling?

To Jon Orange I say, "OK, your turn." If my analogy doesn't help, where's yours?

In comparing efforts between runners and Tour de France cyclists - certainly a specialty, but usually regarded as the creme de la creme of cycling ability - I wouldn't think that you would ask 10k specialists to run what, a 10k every day for 3 weeks save for two rest days?

That would seem to leave the marathoners - the creme de la creme marathoners to be exact.

That's as close as I can come - and no "Jon Orange" nor or others have come up with an alternative - as a way to try and let you all runners know what it takes to ride a Tour de France.

(BTW, where's the spell checker on this forum?!)

Yep, you are right, I can't compare apples to oranges.

Won't even try.

My high school coach says he took his team to a meet back in the day, where Lance ran to work for a triathlon he was training for. He had to have special permission to run because he turned pro while in high school and couldnt compete for his team in cross and track, but they let him jump in unattached and he ran well into the 15's. He didnt remember the exact time but he was under 16. Second place was a 16:15 and he almost beat him by a min.

I think this whole NYC Marathon thing is a prelude to an Ironman attempt. This would make triathlon a first-tier endurance sport, broadcast live and with much bigger purses. No more sob stories about gimps and retards achieving their dreams.

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Well then you are obviously not scientifically minded. I say that because it should be obvious - ~observationally obvious~ that if one is objective then one COULD compare oranges to apples.

You'd just have to try to be careful to know what you were doing.

Let's see... oranges are orange ... and round; apples are red and and green and... and, well, apple shaped. And...

Yes! I just KNOW that ther are intelligent Runners here and/or out here, even if I can't spell..... ... . . . . .

Mint Julip wrote:

He could be the next Nico Medrano if he keeps training

Who is Nico Medrano??

Both of these sports are definitely great: I do both. Having said that, cycling is a million times harder: in fact, I run as training for riding, and run less, and mainly in the off-season. However, there is the best combonation of all time, mixing the best parts of both sports, thus making it a better sport than both of its predecessors, and that sport is cyclo-cross.

For those of you runners who don't know, cyclo-cross is racing on a bike, but there are obstacles which you have to run around (or, more prevailantly, over.) So, it's like a combo of hurdling, XC, and cycling.

By the way, cycling is waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy more difficult: in my first race as a Cat. 2 rider (a criterium), I was at 102% maximum heart rate for the first and last five or so laps. I am now Cat. 1, and am 21, so I am near my prime. I recently did a 4:27 mile, and maintained my heart rate at 89% of maximum

I can't believe I just wasted 10 minutes of my life again reading another thread of total meaningless crap on LetsRun.

I am an idiot.

I also am a cat1 road and cat1 track bike racer who just so happens to also run at a top 5 ranked naia school. And I can tell you that the 4K IP and the 1K on the track (bike) are the most pain full races out there, running biking or other.

Runners and bike racers are both great athletes and each take a long time to master. One is not better than the other. the only difference is that a bad pro bike racer will make a good living but only the best runners in the world make enough to live some where other than the back of their cars.

I am not the best runner out there but not the worst.

PRs 5K 14:47, 10K 30:33, Sc 9:22, 2mile 9:04

Bike 1K 1:11, 4K 4:50, 20K 24:28