100-year-old cyclist rides 62 miles

On Sep 29, 8:37*pm, Dan O wrote:
On Sep 29, 9:20 am, thirty-six wrote:









On 29 Sep, 15:47, Jay Beattie wrote:

On Sep 28, 3:36 pm, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:40:58 -0700 (PDT), Jay Beattie

wrote:
On Sep 28, 9:27 am, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:14:10 -0400, Garrison Hilliard

wrote:
LYON, France (AP) - French cyclist Robert Marchand has ridden 100
kilometers (62 miles) in 4 hours, 17 minutes and 27 seconds.

It's not the first record that he's broken:
http://bicycling.com/blogs/thehub/2012/02/17/100-year-old-sets-cyclin...
I'm impressed (and jealous).
Well, the dude could probably take the world record or title in the
over-100 category for every event *-- pursuit, madison, RR, time
trial, etc., etc. *Team pursuit or TT might be hard -- digging up
enough over-100 riders to fill out the team. There is no doubt that he
is a genetic freak considering that less than one percent of the total
population lives to 100.
-- Jay Beattie.

Yeah, I know. *Still, I'm impressed and jealous. *The Bicycling
articles mentions that he started riding at age 78.

Checking the math:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centenarian
In the US 70,490 over 100 out of a population of about 310 million.
That's about 0.023%, which is considerably less than 1%.

For the world, they claim 455,000 over 100 out of a world population
of about 6.8 billion in 2009 or 0.0067%

Yeah, putting together a team is going to be difficult.

I am impressed, too -- really. *I've ridden with some of these old guy
champions, and they can move right along. *In fact, every so often I
ponder returning to racing as an old guy . . . the fantasy of finally
being good among my aging peers. *The ****er is that the same guys who
beat me 30 years ago can still beat me. *There is just no overcoming
genetics.

There's nothing you can change about your genetics but you can change
what you eat. *I can remember from 30 years ago that cyclists and
runners would not eat meat or stodge in the 3 days preceding an
event. *Fruits and vegetable stews (Stock from bones and joints is
good) are easily digested and present the body with an abundant array
of nutrients required for top level performance. *Then science told us
that we should eat carbohydrate rich foods with meat protein. *The
scientific account has failed, meat consumption results in a negative
nutrient and energy balance. *Farinaceous foods also result in
nutrient loss, but do have on their side a positive energy account as
long as they are consumed with fat and more cellularly strong
vegetation to regulate absorbtion rate and avoid insulin spikes which
cause fat deposition. *Berries are particularly helpful in maximising
energy flow for prolonged periods.

You're on to something. *That's sort of my problem - not so much
*what* I eat as how much. *A leading theory is that low calorie diets
extend lifespan. *The way I put it away, my candle will be spent.

If you mean you are thick-skinned then that is likely to be indulgence
in the farinaceous foods; bread, breakfast cereal, pasta, rice,
potatoes, biscuits, cookies, crackers etc. The list goes on as the
supermarket is full of commercial products with added value in
advertising. If thou wants to live a prolonged death with a body full
of tumors then the best chance one has of satisfying the medical
industry is to eat the white stuff. You either are an opportunity for
commerce or you live for health (as opposed to a slow profitable
death).

On Saturday, September 29, 2012 12:26:19 PM UTC-4, thirty-six wrote:
On 29 Sep, 00:58, datakoll wrote:

pedals pedals ? HGH *French Timers...



you guys are freakin gullible after swalling the TdF



INCROYABLE !



I'M OUTTTA HERE.........__________



sorry, can't find that model, is it perhaps a Chinese copy of a Time

type pedal?

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showem ur outta state driver's license....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_records


where are the age group records found ?