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Just how tough is the Absa Cape Epic? A look at the numbers


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Having a resting HR of 28 must have terminally terrifying for Indurain. Hearing and feeling your heart beat like that every 2-3 seconds with violent force.

I think with it thal low I would be waking up every 2 hours to get on a trainer ... be really interesting to see some of the old blood work, doubt a lot of it would be biological passport ready....

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Very surprised to see an average training time of 11 hours per week.  Always thought that it should be a little more, heck, I though 11 hours should just be weekend riding.

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V12man; you cynic you. Maybe Indurain had a Martian blood passport?

No he along with Greg Lemond where the 2 freaks of genetics that just managed to beat all the other freaks of pharmaclology in the hight of peds.

Amazing guys..

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"90% rode on 29inch wheels" So ... that settles that debate then. 26ers are for clowns! :devil:

I fell in the 10%... calling me a clown?

 

....don't tell anyone, but during the race I frequently wished I had bigger wheels....

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V12man; you cynic you. Maybe Indurain had a Martian blood passport?

Some guys do have some really strange blood work... Reinhold Messner for example...  his oxygen dissociation curve looks more like that of a dolphin than a person....

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Sheesh, that is a phenominal fee! Can not wrap my mind around it.

80% of the fee is bragging rights .The sponsors pick up the cost tab .Vermaak is making a packet and we fall for it .Not me , others do !

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80% of the fee is bragging rights .The sponsors pick up the cost tab .Vermaak is making a packet and we fall for it .Not me , others do !

So the question is: How do you I sell myself (as mid level mtb rider) to get sponsorhips to do an event like this?!

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Very surprised to see an average training time of 11 hours per week.  Always thought that it should be a little more, heck, I though 11 hours should just be weekend riding.

 

As a middle of the pack rider my preparation was:-

 

3 hours spinning during the week

2 hour road bike ride on Saturday

4 hours mtb ride on Sunday.

 

That's all the time I could spare. 

I did take strain on the initial long stages but your body adapts very quickly.

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