Le boucher de Contador est désormais (re)connu.
Accusé de dopage en septembre 2010, Alberto Contador (contrôlé pendant le Tour de France de la même année) se défend et pointe du doigt l’aloyau de veau acheté par un ami à Irún, dans la boutique de Javier Zabaleta.
« Je n’avais rien demandé, je me suis retrouvé mêlé à cette histoire par malchance. Heureusement, mon commerce n’en a jamais souffert. » Ce chef d’entreprise de 63 ans possède six établissements répartis à travers la cité frontalière. Le mardi matin, il travaille du côté du marché d’Irún, situé au niveau – 1 du centre commercial Mendibil, en plein cœur de la ville. Chaque fin de semaine, c’est là que tous les Français viennent remplir leurs chariots. Ici, la viande est réputée bon marché et de bonne qualité.
« Une partie de mes clients vient du Pays basque français et d’Aquitaine. Je voudrais qu’ils sachent qu’il n’y a aucun problème de traçabilité, chez moi. Avec cette affaire, ils ont pu avoir des doutes sur la provenance de la marchandise. »
Mais depuis lundi, l’artisan guipuzcoan est officiellement blanchi. En effet, après quinze mois de procédure, le Tribunal arbitral du sport a enfin rendu ses conclusions. Un épilogue d’une centaine de pages qui discrédite totalement la thèse soutenue jusque-là par le coureur de la Saxo Bank. En somme, les 50 picogrammes de clenbutérol retrouvés dans les urines du cycliste espagnol le 21 juillet 2010 ne provenaient pas de l’aloyau ingéré.
Le patron des carnicerias y charcuterias Larrezabal n’avait jamais vraiment pris au sérieux ces accusations. « Cela faisait plutôt l’objet de blagues fines entre clients. Ceux qui étaient au courant me demandaient le « steak Contador » pour pouvoir être « performant » à la maison. »
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Running times did a great interview with Dave Scott-Thomas… He’s the coach of Canada’s top marathoners Reid Coolsaet and Eric Gillis, as well as 3:56 miler Taylor Milne. It’s a must read. I do love his explication to the recent success, V.O.L.U.M.E.!
One reason is as simple as this—and I don’t think it’s just a Canadian thing; I think it’s a North American thing—I think we became afraid of volume, to be honest. And I think there was a push, from the mid-80s on, to really sit down and punch through to the middle of energy system work and do a very high percentage of anaerobic lactic work, what we would traditionally think of as track middle distance work. So I think we got away from people going out and putting one foot in ahead of the other and spending time on their feet for prolonged periods of time, and I think that killed us over 10,000m and over the marathon.
I don’t think we were the only group that started making that happen, but I think in Canada we were one of the key groups that started bringing that back. We were pretty vocal about getting out the door and running more—sensibly, though. If you look at where Dylan is at right now Dylan Wykes, a 2:12 marathoner who will go for the Canadian standard at the Lake Biwa Marathon in Japan on March 4 and where Simon is at right now » Bairu, with the Jerry Schumacher Nike-backed Oregon TC, who missed the standard in Houston on Jan. 15 and if you look at the reports of Cam Levins down at Southern Utah [Levins was fourth at the 2011 NCAA Division I cross country championships] and the volume he was running in the fall [he was averaging 155 miles per week], we never used to hear anything like that. Ever. Right now, we’re hearing stuff that would have been frankly shocking a decade ago in Canada. A decade ago, you almost never heard of anyone running 100 miles in a week. That was crazy talk, right? What’s happened now is there’s a higher proportion of time spent doing aerobic work. The key, though, is that the messaging can’t be just, Well, just go and run a ton of volume and it will all work out, because if you’re not planning it sensibly, you’re going to break down. But don’t be afraid of getting out and running if you’re a runner.
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It’s coming, you are going to be able to see SOME training data of Crowie. Quite exciting. I bet, we are never going to see his FTP, might be wrong.
Alexander tracks all his workouts and races, then uploads his heart rate, power and GPS data to TrainingPeaks for analysis by his coaching team. Using tools including the Performance Manager ChartTM and each workout’s Training Stress ScoreTM they get in-depth insight into his fitness required to adapt his triathlon training for optimal results.
“TrainingPeaks is an essential tool my performance team relies upon. Every workout is tracked within TrainingPeaks and the post-workout analysis helps drive my training program so we can easily measure my fitness gains,” said Alexander. “As I get older the science of training becomes more important to incorporate into my workout selection. TrainingPeaks is at the leading edge of science and training and I have found nothing else compares.”
Throughout 2012 and 2013, select workouts from Crowie’s training will be made available for the public to analyze themselves on TrainingPeaks.com. Fans will be able to interact with his data online or by downloading to TrainingPeaks’ desktop power data analysis software WKO+.
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Another video from Melanie Mcquaid.
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The other green Team…