So after watching that amazing racing last week, I got thinking.
Lance Armstrong seems to be considered one of the ultimate measuring sticks and models in how one can ultimately impact performance over a season(s) with doping.
Yet Lance Armstrong never seemed to try or believe he could maintain peak fitness for months and months. However, we have Contador and Froome who seem to be at a ridiculous level of fitness in February while the main targets of their season is months away. Contador actually plans to ride the Giro and the Tour. I don't get it. Where is the down time? If he is already fit how can he maintain this high level of fitness through July? I don't even understand how his director sportiff would allow him to race at this level.
How can they maintain this level of fitness for a whole season, when the greatest doper of them all, Armstrong, didn't seem to think he could?
Lance Armstrong seems to be considered one of the ultimate measuring sticks and models in how one can ultimately impact performance over a season(s) with doping.
Yet Lance Armstrong never seemed to try or believe he could maintain peak fitness for months and months. However, we have Contador and Froome who seem to be at a ridiculous level of fitness in February while the main targets of their season is months away. Contador actually plans to ride the Giro and the Tour. I don't get it. Where is the down time? If he is already fit how can he maintain this high level of fitness through July? I don't even understand how his director sportiff would allow him to race at this level.
How can they maintain this level of fitness for a whole season, when the greatest doper of them all, Armstrong, didn't seem to think he could?