addicted2wheels
A blog about bikes, bike racing and physiological research.Hi, I'm Rob, and this is a wandering diatribe of sorts, focused on the very real, human existential tragedy that is/was my cycling career. Yeah, yeah, I still ride, but not quite like I used to. Now I'd love to do 700km weeks again, sure, but somehow I don't think so. It's just not gonna happen. 100km weeks, yep; maybe even 200km. But that doesn't mean I can't bore you to tears with my 'life history on the bike'. It's optional, though. I was sucked into the vortex with my first ride on a too-large Alcon 28" fixed wheeler, and haven't stopped riding since.
Bikes are magic carpets - they were when I was 16 and remain so today (and I'm much older now!). You get on a bike and - unlike a car or motorbike - you empower the machine. In return you get a buzz out of achieving something physical, pleasurable and testing. You may still like driving a car, but riding a bike puts you in touch with the air, the temperature, shade and sun; it connects you, rather than isolating you in a steel and glass cocoon. But this blog could just as well be about business, music, mythology, philosophy, photography or art...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Alan Peiper: interesting thoughts on form and fitness
Alan Peiper is a rough, tough Aussie battler from the old days. No easy path to the pro peleton for him. And he recently assessed Michael Rogers' form in the mountains..He noted that the glandular fever had passed and that he 'looks good', which is apparently what really matters. Well, we know what he meant - I think. From CN: "Michael has had a good progression," his Team High Road directeur sportif Allan Peiper said. "His first race back after so many different problems was the Tour of Catalunya last month. His weight is down. He looks good, that's the main thing. He came to a training camp in the Pyrénées for three days and he was riding his time trial bike in between the mountain sessions. Now we have to see his resistance and his recovery."
Weight down, looks good. Yep, that's what it takes.
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