Piece of cake

This is the sort of article that could have been full of interesting information but is instead...not full of interesting information. It seems, also, to be premised on the weird idea that some people might imagine the Tour de France to be a fairly easy thing. I think zero people are actually under that impression. Case in point:

But the question of which is harder — the Tour or a marathon — depends, scientists say, on what you mean by hard.

It also depends on somebody asking that question. Which, again, no thinking person ever would.

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I dunno - the article had some pretty elucidating quotes like this one from marathon runner Hendrick Ramaala:

“The thing with the marathon is the distance,” he said. “It’s a long, long distance."

Other than that, it's kind of like asking who would win in a fight - batman v. spiderman or bear v. tiger.

My guess is that the Tour de France is like running a marathon every day for a month, so therefore a Tour de France-er is about 30 times tougher than your average marathon-er. Also, they take tons of steroids.

Posted by: jmc on July 22, 2007 05:20 PM

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