One foot in front of the other.
Lance Armstrong has officially pulled out of his much anticipated re-entry into triathlon. Juan Pelota, Armstrong’s swimming, biking and running alter-ego has said that he will be pulling out of the January 29th Blue Lake multisports festival in New Zealand due to a sore left knee.
Regardless of his knee situation, Lance will be riding in the Tour Down Under (January 16-23) which has has said will likely be his last professional cycling race outside the US.
Hopefully the layoff from running won’t last too long for Lance since his long time coach, Chris Carmichael has already said that the seven time Tour de France Champion will indee be toeing the line at the 2011 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii in October. I know that I’d certainly like to see what Lance can do in the triathlon world and based on all the buzz, I’m far from alone!
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Brandon, I will be in NYC (central park) on Froday morning, and wanted to see if you wanted to go for a run. We tried this last year, but this year I have a hotel reservation.
Let me know,
Hey there Richard! As it turns out, Ari and I have made plans to run that morning, just not in Central Park. If you want to join us we\’d love to have you! Let me know and I\’ll shoot you the details.
Does Lance have any chance at winning an IM event? What do you think Brandon? He could probably muddle a 60 minute swim and even a 4 hour and change bike, but would he have enough to hang in for a 3 hour marathon? I think that would be the tough part for him. What are your thoughts?
I suppose it could be interesting but I doubt he runs even a 3:10 after a 4-ish hour bike, even he would have to go all out for that, wouldn’t he?