Posts Tagged ‘train’

Racing Through Pain

Posted by Brian and Bailey Pruett on Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

The Tour De France has just ended. It is almost inhuman what these cyclists can endure. This year the winner, Alberto Contador, rode 2,141 miles in 21 stages which took him a mere 85.8 hours. How is that even possible?! It takes training, and lots of it. To put it in perspective, that is the distance from our home town in Santa Maria, CA to Nashville TN. When I drove that stretch in my car it took me about 35 hours. (more…)