I ran into Lemond 7 or 8 years ago while working up at Big Sky in Montana when he was starting out as director of mountain biking for the Yellowstone club. He looked pretty rough then, physically but not spiritually. A few years prior, I was working in a shop in Minneapolis. He'd show up incognito and ride local norba races with the rest of us hacks. He was diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy so I don't know to what extent he can be fitter than he is. Medical researchers treat his career as miraculous given his disease. Give him credit for trying!