Saw this on my local cycling forum. Figured it’d be good to stir the pot on a cold January morning…
come on, LA is sooooooo 1999… 
Shocking! Lance Armstrong is human afterall…Love the team name too.
Bob
this can only mean one thing: LANCE IS RACING HAWAII THIS YEAR!!
-mike
this can only mean one thing: LANCE IS RACING HAWAII THIS YEAR!!
-mike
Obviously. And there is no way he isn’t breaking 7 hours.
That “helmet” plus black socks - of course he DNF.
And he’s in his granny gear going up that little mole hill.
He probably had a date with the Full House kid and had to leave early to wax the unibrow.
I’d probably drop out early for a chance to hit that, too…
I don’t see him riding on Powercranks.
Looks like the middle chainring to me…
My guess is the bike broke.
From the TMMRA Forum:
http://www.tmbra.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=7870
“He came into the feedzone to go into the last upper loop right ahead of my husband, Adam , who had pre-rode with Lance on Monday. They left the feed zone at the same time and Lance looked over at Adam and said “dude, what is up with this!”- Adam said he looked pretty spent. He kept losing his water bottles out on the course so he didn’t have any water and he was cramped pretty bad. He fell off of Adam’s wheel pretty quickly and, at that point dnf’d.”
Not an LA groupy but this image is from a recent Marathon MTB event where most others raced on full suspension yet Lance opted to race with a hardtail. That apparently became a much bigger factor out on the course as he lost his water bottle and chose not to stop to pick it up and with no hydration pack racing in an arid environment over challenging, mountainous terrain, meant he was out there without fluid for a very long time!
Thanks for the post. The person on my local cycling forum had mentioned he heard that he cramped but didn’t provide a link. Makes sense that he kept losing bottles riding a hard tail. Why didn’t he have a Camelback or something though?
He would never use riding a hardtail as an excuse. It’s no problem whatsoever to race marathons on a hardtail. You can lose your bottle with a fully just as well. Next time I’m sure he’ll use a proper 5$ cage and bend it tightly.
That was the Miles of Discomfort race in Comfort, Texas and it’s not an easy course. In many places is extremely technical and rocky, and there are some sections I love and some sections I just plain hate they’re so hard.
The competition is pretty tough too. Adam (the guy mentioned in the post) is an incredibly strong rider who lives near there and owns a bike shop and given the fairly temperate weather probably rides that course several days a week all year round.
I wasn’t at the race so I can’t tell you how many hardtails versus FS, but for forty-something me it’s rocky enough that I’d think a hardtail would be pretty rough on the body for such a long race. It got pretty warm that day too, and if he ran low on water that would have been pretty brutal.
Regardless… cool to see him riding XC here in Texas.