The Tour de France is twenty-one days of racing with two rest days, which the best comparison is like running a marathon or more every day for an entire month, so the guys are in great shape.
The strategy is the part that I like, where there are twenty-one teams, with nine members on each team. Some team members are selected simply because they are the same size as the team leader, and are basically riding the leaders spare bike, so it the leader needs it the guys has to stand on the side of the road till the team car comes along.
There is a lot of strategy working within the team and between the teams, but at the end of the race there is only going to be one person in the yellow jersey at the top of the podium. So it has the best of team sports, with the action of individual sports, and a lot of personalities and rivals.
And if you ride in many TdF's, you get legs like George Hincapie's below, and I don't know what the hell is going on there. It might be that his legs are growing their own brain, or the blood vessels have expanded to get blood to his leg muscles. Which ever the case, it's just something that happens at the end of a long and hard ride, but never for me personally.
No comments:
Post a Comment