Originally Posted by
bakes1
Maybe...
But I don't know how anyone could say that if they haven't trained as long and hard as the so-called 'tiny percentage'
Train that long and that hard and then do the comparisons.
But I believe that most people who say things like that haven't even attempted to train 1/10th of what the pros have so they really shouldn't be talking about gene pools and things in general they know nothing of.
simple numbers game
there are something like 200 UCI pro and Continental teams. let's say something like 3000 riders (who arent exactly accountants by day moonlighting as riders by night).
so yes they train on a pro regiment, and most of those 3000 arent domestiques for a "top team"....
we can use use power of deduction to say that your Account Manager buddy who races cat 2 crits on the weekend wont be invited to the Bora-Argon squad no matter how much more he practices