Wanna have legs like Lance?????

[Guest Big H]

From RBR.......

 

After a pulmonary embolism, RBR's Ed Pavelka was advised to wear compression stockings to help prevent another blood clot.
 
"Yeah, right," he thought, "over my dead body."
 
It didn't quite come to that. Ed got the socks and wore them a couple of times but didn't care to look like the invalid he was.
 
It didn't help when his wife, a nurse of all things, called them "old man socks."
 
But today Ed has on his knee-high pair. He decided that if they're good enough for Lance Armstrong, they're good enough for him.
 
Lance is wearing compression stockings while off the bike during the Tour. It's a way to promote recovery and guard against deep vein thrombosis (DVT) -- which can cause a dangerous blood clot -- while he's sitting on the team bus during transfers between stages.
 
Ed went digging through the dresser for his stockings after watching Lance's video with Robin Williams at http://tinyurl.com/m6q39f. It's funny and Lance doesn't mind showing off his hosiery despite Williams' ribbing. Lance is seen with covered legs in other videos but this is the first time he's explained what's going on.

 

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[ErikV]

Yeah I'd love to have legs like Lance, but my wife won't let me ride my bike 8 hours a day. She's on about making money or something like that....