OK, no one can ever say Lance left any stone unturned in 2009:
Down Under
TOC
Giro
8th Tour! (ok, 9th)
Hour Record attempt
Hawaii plans
damn!
I think it is great!!! He certainly has the marketing power to do whatever he wants.
Depending on what point in your life you may be at, it is great to see and watch the notion that you do not have to “grow old”! Reading about Lance, Steve Larsen and other guys who are perceived “old” from a sport and marketing standpoint still kicking-ass I think is HUGE.
It’s like watching Rocco last year at the U.S. Open or Greg Norman at the British…I/we want to see these guys kick the young guns. Likewise when I hit my 40’, 50’s and 60’s+ I want to look back at the young guys and smile with a grin as I pass them by…
http://velonews.com/article/87459/hour-record-armstrong-tests-bikes-at-la-s-adt-velodrome
Traditional and New Age hour records! wow
Thanks for the link 
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Chances are it is all for Show, like for a “Livesrong” bio/docu.
Otherwise: No fat chance!
Jacks of all trades are normally not good in any single event.
Trianathletes should know that.
But maybe he is like Chuck Norris, Right?
“Jacks of all trades are normally not good in any single event.”
Ok…well, nevermind then that the record has been held by Anquetil, Merckx, and Indurain.
I think the operative word in your statement is “normally”…as in NONE of those three, nor Armstrong should be considered “normal” relative to the rest of the riders.
I don’t get this comment at all. Jack of all trades?
He rides fast. He had fastest individual time trials with pretty solid consistency through out his TdF wins. Whether or not he can still put out that kind of power is a different question, but I simply don’t understand how he’s trying to be a jack of all trades.
I won’t discount it. Although he is getting old, he’s not completely done yet, and even doing the tour again shows that he thinks he’s still got what it takes. He did pull a 3 hour marathon his first time around as well which, as a previous non-runner, is not bad.
I will say: A guy who wins the tour 8 times (if he pulls it off this year, and that’s a real if, no doubt) is already debate-ably the best endurance athlete ever (made more special by taking a couple years off), but if he also can break the one hour record and even get top three in an Ironman (which is looking more likely to happen–an entry, I mean), what else could he really do to prove himself as the best ever? Not much.
Why don’t the TT champs take a shot at it? I’d figure Cancellara would have a better chance than Lance?
I just want to know what his list of girlfriends for the year is going to look like.
No way he does Hawaii this year. Not a chance.
“Hawaii Plans”
obviously not this year. He said in 2010.
He did pull a 3 hour marathon his first time around as well which, as a previous non-runner, is not bad.
Ummm…what? Maybe not a previous marathoner, but you know he started out winning triathlons long before cancer and cycling became his focus…
Why don’t the TT champs take a shot at it? I’d figure Cancellara would have a better chance than Lance?
I’ve always wondered if theres an unspoken rule that nobody wants to break the hour record doped up and nobody thinks they can do it natural.
or maybe it just hurts so bad nobody wants to try! haha
I’m not sure that Cancellara has a chance in the “roadie position”. I don’t think you can get the CdA of that huge body small enough without the aero bars (just conjecture on my part).
I hope that Lance goes for it, but hopefully this does not turn out into a lot of hype like when Mark Allen took a year off to focus on running and kick ass at the Berlin marathon, and then pulls to the side of the road with wooden quads and a DNF…
Dev
Mark Allen’s attempt was still interesting. When someone like that tries and fails it only goes to educate us all on how impressive specialists are at their thing.
Why don’t the TT champs take a shot at it? I’d figure Cancellara would have a better chance than Lance?
Because the UCI was getting pizzed off at people like Obree and Boardman using superior positioning and aerodynamics to gain speed. The current “true” hour record must be attempted on a traditional round tubed frame without any sort of aero accessories … no wheels, no helmet, only road bars. Makes it REALLY hard to beat the likes of Merckx who had to do it on the same sort of frame. Shows you the qaulity of rider that was in the past and why Eddy was the greatest rider ever … 
I’m not sure that Cancellara has a chance in the “roadie position”. I don’t think you can get the CdA of that huge body small enough without the aero bars (just conjecture on my part).
Then how does Fabian just “ride away” from guys in some road races and classics? See stage 3 of the 2007 TdF. And he was riding the hoods.
He did pull a 3 hour marathon his first time around as well which, as a previous non-runner, is not bad.
Ummm…what? Maybe not a previous marathoner, but you know he started out winning triathlons long before cancer and cycling became his focus…
He had not run competitively in well over a decade, like half his life ago.