Showing posts with label Tour De France Running Injuries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour De France Running Injuries. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

How Much Power Does It Take To Ride The Tour De France?


The Team Time Trial is the closest thing your find to the Gladiator V the Lion in our modern culture, so sit back and enjoy the video!
I set my P.B's over 10 miles- 22.18 and 57.38 for 25 miles using a Mavic disc rear wheel!
An intriguing insight into the fitness of the Tour rider.

The Tour de France: Power outputs from the outside in

Tour de France: Stage 4 power output analysis


Sweet 16 for Cavendish


Tour de France 2011, stage five: Mark Cavendish claims dramatic sprint victory as blood shed across brutal stage

Today I visited Local Sports physio Recommended Physio for treatment on my injured calf.
I've been getting quite frustrated with how long the injury has taken to heel.
After a full investigation by Sarah it seem the the muscle fibers have not knitted back correctly due to my lack of stretching after runs!
She did some very painful friction massage [ I made the mistake of telling her that I had a very high pain threshold, silly me!] to break down the scar tissue and instructed a course of stretching for the calf muscles.
Full recovery may take up to 4 weeks, oh well plenty of time to watch the Tour De France then :0]