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Victor Hugo Pena as a XC Skier
Tour De France leader Pena was a national level swimmer for Colombia. Must
have a strong upper body. Legs probably not too wimpy. What if he could ski? Gary Jacobson Rosendale, NY |
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Victor Hugo Pena as a XC Skier
He probably made more money yesterday (from wearing the yellow jersey at
the TdF) than he would in his entire skiing career! Skiing is an interesting sport in that it seems to put unique demands on the body. This combined with the technical aspects (added demands of balance, coordination) make it so not every successful endurance athlete can pick it up and do well. An example of this is the several Kenyans who have made real attempts at it, but did not succeed. Davis Phinney had some success as a skier, but not anything like what he did on the bike. Pete Vordenberg coached a Kenyan (I forget his name) for more than a year when he was living in New Mexico. The guy was an elite marathoner and I think ran sub 2:08 at one point, but even after several years of skiing and one-on-one coaching with Pete, he had difficulty beating the JII girls at Spring Series in Sun Valley. Obviously, the guy has the motor, but something else just didn't click. I think a lot of it is that you have to ski for many years as you are developing physically in order to train the muscles, nerves and brain well enough to be world class. -Nathan http://nsavage.com "Gary Jacobson" wrote in message news Tour De France leader Pena was a national level swimmer for Colombia. Must have a strong upper body. Legs probably not too wimpy. What if he could ski? Gary Jacobson Rosendale, NY |
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Victor Hugo Pena as a XC Skier
I've read about Nike experiment:
They sponsored world -class marathoners from Africa (Camerun, I think) and ship them to Norway for two years to learn to ski. I guess, to prove the "just do it" slogan. So they sucked so much they could've walk faster than ski. Cost Nike pretty penny. Good. I never liked the slogan anyway. You can not "just do it", you have to work, some times for years. By the way, Armstrong was a champion swimmer in his school years too. It is a good cardio base and soooooo boring that if you can exell at swimming, everything else is a picnic. |
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Serge wrote:
I've read about Nike experiment: They sponsored world -class marathoners from Africa (Camerun, I think) and ship them to Norway for two years to learn to ski. I guess, to prove the "just do it" slogan. So they sucked so much they could've walk faster than ski. Cost Nike pretty penny. Good. I never liked the There were 2 or 3 Kenyans in Finland for quite a while. And in Nagano that guy was promissing to do some serious ass kicking in SLC. Well he did... he beat Camerun guy for almost 30 sec on 10km. Not to mention he was about 20min back from first one. And biggest stupidity in all this for me is, that Finnish Ski Federation was paying all their expenses, which include trainers, equipment etc. And no probably not something else as someone might suggest )) It just shows that for skiing you need something else then being good runner, and looking back on some thread here... Being good runner doesn't make you good skier and vice versa. -- Primoz Support - IP/VoIP Connectivity & Routing ------------------------------------------------------------------- Primoz Jeroncic tel: +386 1 562 31 40 | Borovec 2 fax: +386 1 562 18 55 | 1 + 1 = 3 1236 Trzin | for larger values of 1 Slovenija http://www.softnet.si/primoz ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Victor Hugo Pena as a XC Skier
Serge wrote:
I've read about Nike experiment: They sponsored world -class marathoners from Africa (Camerun, I think) and ship them to Norway for two years to learn to ski. I guess, to prove the "just do it" slogan. So they sucked so much they could've walk faster than ski. Cost Nike pretty penny. Good. I never liked the slogan anyway. You can not "just do it", you have to work, some times for years. There were 2 or 3 Kenyans in Finland for quite a while. And in Nagano that guy was promissing to do some serious ass kicking in SLC. Well he did... he beat Camerun guy for almost 30 sec on 10km. Not to mention he was about 20min back from first one. And biggest stupidity in all this for me is, that Finnish Ski Federation was paying all their expenses, which include trainers, equipment etc. And no probably not something else as someone might suggest )) It just shows that for skiing you need something else then being good runner, and looking back on some thread here... Being good runner doesn't make you good skier and vice versa. And I agree. Just do it is a bit annoying. It makes people think it's so easy. Now I'm off for Scandinavia for 3 weeks Have fun during this time -- Primoz Support - IP/VoIP Connectivity & Routing ------------------------------------------------------------------- Primoz Jeroncic tel: +386 1 562 31 40 | Borovec 2 fax: +386 1 562 18 55 | 1 + 1 = 3 1236 Trzin | for larger values of 1 Slovenija http://www.softnet.si/primoz ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Victor Hugo Pena as a XC Skier
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Serge wrote: By the way, Armstrong was a champion swimmer in his school years too. It is a good cardio base and soooooo boring that if you can exell at swimming, everything else is a picnic. Just finished listening to his book on tape, which I recently received as a b-day present. He was apparently a pretty successful triathlete for a while, before the cycling folks scooped him up. He claims the upper body was a drawback to his cycling career and actually credits the cancer with finally stripping it from him. Once he started training again he was able to rebuild without the upper body and that's when success really began happening. According to the book anyway. Ok, so most folks here probably know the Armstrong story far better than I do... I found it interesting. I liked the book but did not like the voice they chose to read it on tape. I don't know Lance, but I couldn't help but feel he was poorly represented by the way the reader delivered the lines, most or all of which are written in first-person. -Mitch |
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