Floyd Landis is one tough mother &%#$%
Before the tour started I read the article in Outside Magazine about Floyd Landis and it made me feel a little better about the upcoming tour. He seemed down to earth and not too self-important, which is sometimes nice to see in an athlete in today's sporting world.
Although, I remember reading an article about Landis a couple years ago (?) that talked about him growing up in a Mennonite family and how he could ride a wheely on his road bike for blocks (kilometers?). That article also gave me the same impression.
Today the news about the problematic hip came to the surface.... and all I can say is that he is one tough dude. (Most people knew about the surgury, but as he says in the article, even his mother didn't know the extent of the necrosis until last week.) I cry when the little aches and pains happen, he is riding in one of the world's most difficult endurance challenges and has pain when he walks and sleeps.
here's the NY Times link: Landis's hip will need surgury after bid for tour
NY Times story by Daniel Coyle: What he's been pedaling
(Coyle is the author of the Outside Magazine article and the book Lance Armstrong's War
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Good Luck Floyd! You're one of the few good things that I can cheer about in the TDF.
Although, I remember reading an article about Landis a couple years ago (?) that talked about him growing up in a Mennonite family and how he could ride a wheely on his road bike for blocks (kilometers?). That article also gave me the same impression.
Today the news about the problematic hip came to the surface.... and all I can say is that he is one tough dude. (Most people knew about the surgury, but as he says in the article, even his mother didn't know the extent of the necrosis until last week.) I cry when the little aches and pains happen, he is riding in one of the world's most difficult endurance challenges and has pain when he walks and sleeps.
here's the NY Times link: Landis's hip will need surgury after bid for tour
NY Times story by Daniel Coyle: What he's been pedaling
(Coyle is the author of the Outside Magazine article and the book Lance Armstrong's War
)Good Luck Floyd! You're one of the few good things that I can cheer about in the TDF.
posted by gary at 9:39 PM
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I am with you on him being so tough and yet so 'real.' I read or heard somewhere that about the only time the pain is bearable is when he's on a bike. As someone who also split her femoral neck (but not enough to cut off the blood supply, thanks goodness), I found it weird that the pain goes away whenever I'm on a stationary bike. Must be something about the body's position.
I think tomorrow is the first moutain stage... we'll see how it is feeling. His doctor said that he was concerned about him going up stairs... yet riding over 2,000 miles doesn't bother him as much. The body is amazing. And I think, so is Landis' pain tolerance. They mentioned that he hasn't been taking any pain meds! I know people that would take a bottle of Tylenol at the sign of a headache, who knows what necrosis of the femur head would do. Good luck Floyd.
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