Where will you be?
obra4 | June 18, 2008- Comments
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Tour de France Tomorrow!
obra4 | July 7, 2007 |
Getting excited for the upcoming Tour de France starting this year in London. Chris and I simply can not wait to spend the long nights and early mornings watching the coverage on Versus.
Interesting article in Scientific American on the Tour de France. A Mr. David Gordon Wilson from MIT (author of Bicycling Science) measures the output of riders on stage 14 of the Tour. The stage distance is 197k. The energy expended by a rider is equal to the energy expended ascending Mount Everest. Within this stage, during a 100k sub-segment, a rider will incur 17,000 pedal rotations, climb the equivalent of 34,000 stairs and walk up 18.5 Empire State buildings. Grueling! |
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