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Lance Armstrong: Cyclings
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Now, Lance Armstrong's story is available to you in a truly unique training/learning program. This is it! A poignant, human, and compelling presentation that will get people thinking positively about achieving virtually any goal.
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Lance Armstrong has responded on his LanceArmstrong.com website, branding L'Équipe's reporting as being "nothing short of tabloid journalism." Armstrong says: "I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs."
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Armstrong is an incredible endurance athlete. His vital statistics include a resting heart rate of 32 to 34 bpm, a VO2max (the standard measure of aerobic fitness based on the body’s ability to take up oxygen) of 83.8ml/kg/min, and a lactate threshold heart-rate of 178 bpm (beyond the lactate threshold, lactic acid begins to flood the muscles and induce rapid fatigue). A handful of athletes in history have comparable fitness levels, including the marathon runner Matt Carpenter and cyclists Greg LeMond and Miguel Indurain. Among male endurance athletes you might expect to see average VO2max values of 70ml/kg/min.
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Lance lived all of his life with his mother, Linda, who was only seventeen when poor little Lance was born. His father, a man by the name of Gunderson, took off when he was only two. Yet his mother kept on working two jobs and finished high school; got a secretarial position and moved on to Oak Cliff and found another husband named Terry Armstrong. Terry was a born-again Christian who believed that the proper way of discipline was to whip a boy for any reason. This made a firm impression on the boy. His mom, Linda, was and will be a guiding force in Lance's life.
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Armstrong drew so much attention that when he was a senior at Plano East High School he was approached by the U.S. Olympic development team and invited to train in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Going to Colorado for six weeks would mean that he might risk not graduating, but the opportunity was too tempting. After taking private make-up classes, Armstrong did graduate from high school on time in 1989.
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In 2004, Armstrong again beat a German cyclist into second place. However, this time it was Andreas Klöden, finishing 6 minutes 19 seconds behind the winner. Ullrich finished in fourth, a further 2 minutes 31 seconds behind. Armstrong won a personal best 5 individual stages, plus the team time trial. He became the first man since Gino Bartali in 1948 to win three consecutive mountain stages; 15, 16, and 17. The individual time trial on stage 16 up L'Alpe d'Huez was won in considerable style by Armstrong as he passed Ivan Basso on the way up the epic climb, despite setting out 2 minutes after the Italian.
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