A dose of Wiggo to inspire you to pedal-off the Christmas pudding.
Bradley Wiggins: The transformation:
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/...formation.html
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At Heathrow airport, Wiggins saw Jonathan Vaughters, who told him the line about turning a miler into a marathon runner. "You can turn a miler into a marathon runner, but you can't do it the other way round."
"He said he'd seen what I'd done on the track and couldn't understand why I kept getting dropped on the road," says Wiggins.
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The aim was to start the '09 Tour at 72kg. It stands to reason that if you can produce 450 watts for 10 minutes weighing 72kg instead of 78, the gain in performance is going to be considerable.
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"In a ten-mile time trial I averaged 482 watts for 18 minutes, and if I did a 30-minute test on a climb I'd be averaging 475 watts. At 72kg that gives me a chance."
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