Lance Armstrong can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the last time he raced 65 miles by himself.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, maybe when I was a young, young kid,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You would never do that on the Tour, so none of the Tours I won.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quite literally in those Tours, excluding time trials, I probably rode alone for 20 miles. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a long time since I was time trialing for that long.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
So strong was Armstrong on Saturday that he left the rest of the field in the mud just 35 miles into the lung-searing Leadville 100 mountain bike race, winning the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest-altitude endurance test in record time.<\/p>\n
Despite racing through freezing rain at the start, which made it difficult to shift gears on the foreboding descents on a flat back tire for the final 10 miles, Armstrong shaved nearly 17 minutes off the record, winning in 6 hours, 28 minutes, 50 seconds…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lance Armstrong can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the last time he raced 65 miles by himself. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, maybe when I was a young, young kid,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You would never do that on the Tour, so none of the Tours I won. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quite literally in those Tours, excluding time trials, I probably rode alone for 20 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46487,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions\/46487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}