May 03, 2013 at 03:48 PM
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/04/19_lactate.shtml
Wait, I thought mitochondria used Lactate as fuel...
In Print: Articles of Interest
May 03, 2013 at 03:49 PM
Calm down guys. Evolution's just a theory.
May 03, 2013 at 03:53 PM
it does, but from my understanding the rate at which it gets reconverted into energy is minute compared to the one it is produced at anaerobically in the first place.
May 03, 2013 at 04:06 PM
@dstokes - I have read recently that lactate actually is itself used to create energy. Here's something about it: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060420235214.htm
May 03, 2013 at 04:27 PM
All I know is what they taught me in Biochemistry class, which was a few years ago. I don't keep up with current crackpot ideas from exercise physiologists. But it is true that some animals eat their own feces . . .
May 06, 2013 at 01:57 PM
this popped up on a LinkedIn group, a study of the effectiveness of pro team sponsorship.
http://future-publishing.msgf.net/files/amf_future_publishing/project_391/The_Cyclingnews_sponsorship_report_on_professional_cycling.pdf
on an interesting side note, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov apparently doesn't mind sharing his email address on LinkedIn.
http://future-publishing.msgf.net/files/amf_future_publishing/project_391/The_Cyclingnews_sponsorship_report_on_professional_cycling.pdf
on an interesting side note, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov apparently doesn't mind sharing his email address on LinkedIn.
May 07, 2013 at 12:37 AM
Redneck, I feel for ya...
May 07, 2013 at 01:25 AM
From What I've learned and experienced over the last few weeks of pain, IT band injuries are one of the most frequent, yet preventable, injuries out there. Fair enough an amateur douche like me suffering from it, but a pro team rider? That kinda boggles my mind.
May 07, 2013 at 01:41 AM
He's old, like me and Jules.
May 07, 2013 at 01:46 AM
He might have other problems.
To me, this could be Horner delicately bowing out of his last year as a pro.
May 07, 2013 at 02:38 PM
@Wump I find that one hard to believe; he's the returning champ, and I've not seen him be "delicate" about anything in the past. If RS is gone though it'll certainly make it hard for him to find a team next year.
Redneck to Mengoni for 2014?
Redneck to Mengoni for 2014?
May 07, 2013 at 02:45 PM
Ha, you joke, but Horner has proven that he's not above racing for well funded amateur teams. There was a year where he rode for California-based Webcor (a team coincidentally that both JP and I guest rode for in a previous year at a John Eustice Connecticut Pro race).
May 07, 2013 at 05:34 PM
Want me to get him to come to a park race?
May 07, 2013 at 07:28 PM
Jules,
Gesink won last year. Horner won in 2011.
Horner's role on the team is almost certainly to do well in the US stage races, a job possibly more important than helping a Schleck at a maor stage race. So this is his chance to win.
I was trying to be delicate myself. I noticed this story came out a few days before Horner's announcement. Striking in that ToC has been pretty lean on testing for a number of years.
May 07, 2013 at 07:36 PM
let's not forget about these 3 juice puppies who rode away from the field at the gun at Redlands and won by 12 minutes in an 85 mile race...12 minutes, with the rest of the domestic peloton chasing them from the gun.
Men 1 Tom Danielson (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 3.23.00 2 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Saturn Cycling Team 3 Chris Horner (USA) Saturn Cycling Team 4 Miguel Meza (Mex) Schroeder Iron Pro Cycling 12.09 5 Brice Jones (USA) 7Up/Maxxis 6 Derek Wilkerson (USA) Jelly Belly/Carlsbad Clothing 7 Phil Dixon (GBr) Great Britain 8 Peter Mazur (USA) LeMond Fitness/Cra-Z Soap 9 Danny Pate (USA) Prime Alliance 10 Jacob Erker (Can) Schroeder Iron Pro Cycling 11 Russell Stevenson (USA) Health Net Cycling Team 12 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Sierra Nevada/Clif Bar 13 Andreas Hestler (Can) Canada 14 Andy Jacques-Maynes (USA) Sierra Nevada/Clif Bar 15 Ben Brooks (Aus) Jelly Belly/Carlsbad Clothing 16 Christophe Sauser (Swi) Great Britain 17 Glen Mitchell (NZl) Navigators Cycling 18 Michael Jones (USA) Team West Virginia 19 John Lieswyn (USA) 7Up/Maxxis 20 Matt Decanio (USA) Prime Alliance
May 07, 2013 at 08:02 PM
Hmmm....
May 08, 2013 at 12:17 AM
Check out The Secret Pro. Sounds to me that Basso's withdrawal from the giro was not a saddle sore.
"While I’m on the topic of Grand Tours, there’s talk going around the peloton that a former Grand Tour winner who’s about to be taken down for a biological passport irregularities. I can’t say who it is but when the news breaks you’ll know who I’m talking about. If it’s true, it’s a good thing that’s he’s been found out; it shows that the biological passport is doing its job."
May 08, 2013 at 12:26 AM
Hmmm. Not doing it's job if he can withdraw because of a "saddle sore"
May 08, 2013 at 12:36 AM
I suspect Basso was informed of "irregularities" in his profile...he likely opted out of the Giro to avoid the phalanx of press that would surround the team hotel/bus when the story breaks mid-giro.
May 08, 2013 at 01:48 AM
This is pretty interesting stuff, although talking about a different sport (running - the marathon).
May 08, 2013 at 03:07 AM
Fellas, there are other former grand tour winners out there. Juanjo Cobo went from nowhere to Vuelta winner to nowhere. Denis Menchov hasn't been the same since humanaplasma was blown open. And DiLuca and Valverde are showing some form of old.
Besides Basso's quiet season, the petit prince, Damiano Cunego has been fairly silent as well.
Of active former grand tour winners, only two are showing top form these days. Contador and Nibali.
May 08, 2013 at 03:10 AM
@Gardiner you mean the Orica Green Edge Gerrans secret pro?
May 08, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Not Cunego !!! He will have to get his tattoo removed
May 08, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Also, from cycling tips article:
"There’s been some suggestion in the media that the guy who won the Tour of Turkey, Mustafa Sayar, has been “getting some assistance”. He certainly turned a few heads on stage 6 of the race when he danced away from the rest of us like we were a bunch of juniors. Now, I’ve got no idea whether Sayar’s been doping or not (and I’m not suggesting he has), but I do know that the organisers of the Tour of Turkey are very worried about the race being tarnished by doping and made an offer to him to abandon the race. There’s chatter that if there’s another positive test from a winner of the race (like there was last year, with Sayar’s teammate Ivailo Gabrovski), the race’s future could be in jeopardy."
Watch the stage in question, total Pantani move.
May 08, 2013 at 12:41 PM
The idea that *race organizers* are to blame for doping - or allowing dopers to win their races - and are then left with a decision between paying of the dopers to leave early or gamble with the fate of a race is proof enough that the model for this sport is broken.
May 08, 2013 at 05:05 PM
I wish this were for real...
http://www.neilbrowne.com/2013/05/cavendishs-email-to-teammates-leaked/
http://www.neilbrowne.com/2013/05/cavendishs-email-to-teammates-leaked/
May 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM
May 15, 2013 at 02:19 AM
For the Kissena boys out there who love to go on the break (you know who you are):
""We had great cooperation all day," said Mannion, a 21-year-old development team rider. "Nobody was really skipping any turns. Those ProTour guys don't mess around once they're up the road."
a far cry from the oh-so-important park race attitudes (and park freds, freds in general...) LULZ
May 15, 2013 at 02:58 AM
Jason, it's the classic problem of people's behavior often is in inverse proportion to the stakes. The fights are most bitter when the stakes are the lowest.
Since I'm watching too much cycling these days, here's one I found funny. Sherwen and Liggett were going on and on about how they heard on race radio that Philippe Gilbert was going back for socks. "the socks are highly technical these days, and these have pockets for cooling elements." I'm pretty sure Gilbert was going back for "socks" of pantyhose filled with ice, sometimes called ice socks, that they put under their jerseys by the necks.
May 16, 2013 at 01:00 AM
Great read about a stage in the tour of japan, 11.4kms uphill mass start 10% average up Mt Fuji.