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ironchris a écrit :Oui, moi aussi, 7 fois la victoire de suite juste pour faire chier un peu plus le monde!
Ensuite, dans le patinage artistique, en couple avec Cherryl à 45 ans, c'est pas trop vieux, puis après, en pétanque...

ironchris a écrit :Après le triathlon, le vélo puis la super mobylette méga kité, il passerait aux sports mécaniques! Il a déjà un petit moteur...mais sur le Dakar sera t il assez puissant?

kent a écrit : - Cp en footing soit 4 heures soit total = 8h50 victoire

FanchM a écrit :ca fait longtemps que qqun a gagne Kona avec 8h50'...

les 4h meme en footing sont pessimistes pour Lance.
les 50' sont tres optimistes...certes il etait bon nageur, mais a bcp perdu du haut du corps...

Le 8 Décembre 2002, Lance Armstrong sera au départ, pour la seconde année consécutive, d'un duathlon au Texas.
L'an passé, il avait aisément suivi des coureurs valant 32' au 10km, avant de subir une crevaison en VTT, le privant de la victoire finale.
Nul doute que cette année, il remportera la course , s'il ne connait pas de problème mécanique. Une victoire à Kona en 2010 n'est pas à exclure....

Lance Armstrong goes back to his multisport roots for off-season fitness
By Sal Ruibal
USA TODAY
December 13, 2002

Lance Armstrong's offseason training is getting down and dirty.

The four-time Tour de France winner has ridden to fame and fortune on the skinny tires of a road bike, but now he's getting his kicks on knobby tires and running shoes.

He recently won this year's Austin Dirty Duathlon — a rugged 3-mile trail run followed by a 12.3-mile mountain bike ride and another 3-mile run — and plans to enter a cyclocross race this month.

Cyclocross is like steeplechase on two wheels: Riders traverse an often muddy or icy course studded with barriers that require them to dismount and carry the bike, then jump back on and continue racing.

When asked about the finer points of his dismount-remount technique, Armstrong says, ''I'll just jump off and run.''

It should be noted that before he was a superstar cyclist, Armstrong was a world-class junior triathlete.

Armstrong's dirty deeds are informal preparation for his attempt to reach a record-tying fifth consecutive Tour win. His U.S. Postal Service teammates have been in Austin for casual training rides, including mountain bike sessions on private trails their captain has cut into his Texas Hill Country ranch.

Now 31 and the father of three, Armstrong is discovering what many recreational athletes know all too well.

''With my busy schedule, it's hard to find time to fit in my training,'' he says. ''It is a daily challenge.''

He spent much of the last week on the East Coast, attending a meeting of President Bush's cancer advisory committee in Washington, D.C., jetting back to Austin for the Dirty Duathlon, then flying to New York for a slew of media appearances after being named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.

''It is a big honor, no doubt,'' Armstrong says. ''But I didn't spend a lot of time worrying about it. It is one of those things I don't have a lot of control over. I can prepare for a race, but this is not like that.''

In 1999, the year he came back from near-fatal testicular cancer to win his first Tour, SI tapped the U.S. Women's World Cup soccer team. The next year, another win in France, but Tiger Woods got the nod.

In 2001 he grabbed yellow jersey number three, but Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling were picked.

''I guess a lot of it depends on what kind of year everyone else had,'' he says. ''If Tiger had won every tournament, he'd probably get it.''

Greg LeMond didn't get the honor in 1986 when he became the first American to win the Tour, but his comeback from an accidental gunshot injury to win in 1989 was good enough for SI.

''Greg winning it was a big moment in cycling,'' Armstrong says. ''And it came before all the newspaper coverage and live TV broadcasts we have now.''

Ironically, he didn't get the nod as 2002 International Cyclist of the Year from VeloNews Magazine, a distinction he earned in 2000 and 2001. World champion Mario Cipollini won that title.

''I guess VeloNews didn't like me this year,'' Armstrong says with a laugh.

Lance Armstrong Goes Off-road in Texas

By C.J. Haas

What will Lance Armstrong do when he retires from cycling? He provided a pretty big hint last December when he kicked some tail in an off-road duathlon not far from his hometown of Austin, Texas.
Although the 31-year-old endurance fiend is shooting for two more Tour de France wins — which would give him a record six straight — there is already a buzz that he’ll shift his focus, possibly to the Ironman Triathlon World Championship or Xterra World Championships in Hawaii. Armstrong was a strong junior-level triathlete before turning pro as a cyclist, but he’s apparently never lost the itch for multi-sport racing Armstrong set a new course record at the Dirty Duathlon on December 8, finishing the technical course (3-mile trail run/12.3-mile mountain bike/3-mile trail run) in 1 hour, 36 minute and 5 seconds. Surprisingly, he had to come from behind to win after Jason Sager out-pedaled him by 2:24 on the biking leg.

But it turned out to be a runaway win for Armstrong, who outdistanced Sager by nearly three minutes in the final run section to seal the victory. His U.S. Postal Service cycling teammates, in town for a week of training, also competed, but primarily in the relay division.

“These guys think I’m crazy for taking them out here to do this in the off-season, but this is stuff I’ll do for the rest of my life,” Armstrong said afterwards. “I’ll only do the Tour for another couple years and then after that I’ll never do it. But these kinds of things I suspect I’ll do, hopefully, until I’m an old man.”

To his credit, Sager (1:38:33) is an elite mountain biker and hasn’t lost a race in Texas in more than four years.

“It’s kind of like being stalked by a shark,” Sager told TV reporter Jen Ohlsen after the race. “You know it’s coming, so you don’t want to look back. But there’s nothing wrong with being passed by Lance.” Armstrong considered entering the second Dirty Duathlon in early January, but opted not to race.

OLIVE25-12 a écrit :Je pense qu'il va s'occuper des associations qui soutiennent la lutte contre le cancer, mais plutôt dans l'anonymat.