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New Fitness Article: Go ahead, have some coffee. It's okay and you'll go faster
We have a new contributor, certified nutritionist Marcia Homer, MS, CSN. She'll be sending us a fitness/nutrition essay each month. For February she explains the science behind using coffee as a safe, legal performance enhancer. It's part one of a six-part series on ergogenic aids (
external influences that enhance athletic performance or facilitate physical exercise). You can read her coffee essay here.
Bicycle History
Updated to include 2015
"Were the television show Jeopardy to do a cycling-themed edition, Mr. Witherell's book could easily serve as the basis for each of the show's pieces of trivia. Bicycle History is a delightful volume that is as difficult to put down as a great glass of wine. The book is grab-bag of surprises, reminding us of forgotten riders, details lost to time and triumphs of both people and technology. It delivers to the reader fact upon fact that weave a tapestry of cycling history unlike any I've encountered. I can hear Trebek now: 'This American won the Grand Prix de la Côte d'Azur in 1940.' " - Patrick Brady, Editor Red Kite Prayer.com
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Enhanced Historical Tour de France Results
In 1940, ahead of the invading Germans, the Tour de France sent its records south to keep them safe. The truck with those records vanished. No one knows what happened to it or its valuable cargo.
Now, a wonderful French gent named Yves has been sending me deeper GCs of each stage of the 1930s Tours de France. I just finished posting 1935. Next up, 1934. If you are a cycle racing history nut, I know this recovery of data previously thought lost will bring a smile to your face and a spring to your step.
While we're talking about the 1930s Tours de France: the video below is a bit jumpy, but it's still great to see the champions of the era moving and riding instead of merely captured in still shots.
More books coming from McGann Publishing
We've got some terrific books coming later this year. Next will be a real departure for us. David L. Stanley, the voice of several of our audiobooks, has written a riveting book about his bout with melanoma, skin cancer. It's with real pride that we will be offering this valuable, well-written and fascinating book.
Next up after that will be a book about the cycling world championships by that master historian, Les Woodland. No one can make history come alive as Les does. And no historian will bring a smile to your face as often as Les does. He has that wonderful knack of telling a story with a lighthearted, whimsical touch.
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We've been working in the off-season posting complete historical results for important races. We've got
Tour de France and
Giro d'Italia results with complete final GCs and results for every stage for all editions of these two great races.
Our current project is getting complete results up for the classics.
La Fleche Wallone
was completed. last month.
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Tour de France Average Speed
Consistently, the most popular page on BikeRaceInfo is our
Tour de France Statistics page, listing average speed for each edition, plus a few other important numbers.
Though for Constant Contact readers, the favorite place on BikeRaceInfo is
our listing of photo and video galleries
And wait, there's more!
For years we've been collecting the memories of those who have been involved in racing. Our Oral History Project has interviews with immortals such as framebuilding greats Cino Cinelli and Faliero Masi, and racers including Fiorenzo Magni, Jan Janssen, Celestino Vercelli, Franco Bitossi, Greg LeMond, Gianni Bugno and Felice Gimondi. Dig in!
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