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Grand Tour Training

StaggerLee · 2011-07-25 13:49:27

Having watched the Tour De France I was wondering what kind of training prior to the events that these guys do. Having started cycling recently I can't imagine the kind of preperation that is needed. I've done a lot of running and trained and ran races up to marathon distance. For those events you can follow a multi-week…

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StaggerLee

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Having watched the Tour De France I was wondering what kind of training prior to the events that these guys do. Having started cycling recently I can't imagine the kind of preperation that is needed. I've done a lot of running and trained and ran races up to marathon distance. For those events you can follow a multi-week plan which build up to 1 big day. Training for a 3 week event would be a different story though.

Anyone know what these guys do all winter?

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have an apartment in girona

or

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