[Toidylop]

Just overheard from one of the OLN commentators (forgot which one?) saying Lance's resting heart rate is around 35 pulses per minute!!! Is it possible? Wow... No wonder he has the heart to win.

[Fred Hayek]

Actually Miguel Indurain's was lower. Reportedly down around 28. Indurian was no small rider (like Pantani), yet still a powerful climber.

To put the Mont Ventoux climb in perspective, in English units that's about 6000 feet of climbing in 13 miles. That is a long steep climb. The biggest "short distance" climb that I did in a race was the Santa Fe Hillclimb Race in August of 2000. Started at Fort Marcy Park (in Santa Fe NM, not where Vince Foster's body was dumped), about 7000 feet, to the Santa Fe Ski Basin, about 10300 feet, all within 15 miles. OK, so there's an altitude factor in that one. My legs were so fried at the end (not to mention the altitude headache), I rode a pickup truck back to the start instead of the bike.

[uncbob]

Just overheard from one of the OLN commentators (forgot which one?) saying Lance's resting heart rate is around 35 pulses per minute!!! Is it possible? Wow... No wonder he has the heart to win.

Back when I was 42 to 50 and running 2 marathons a year on only 35-40 miles a week and doing about 70 miles a week on the bike my resting rate averaged 39 to 42

I was just a middle of the pack runner.
Today at age 66 and still jogging and some biking but no marathons it is at 48 per minute