i used to have a license to race back in the teenage days before i realized that most of the men in the game have no attraction to the ladies. then i just started to bike as a tourist. Cycling is all respiration, and it is the closest thing to horse racing as far as sports go. as a cyclist you know what it means "to ask your legs for a response" either there is one or there is not depending upon the lactic acid remaining in the legs form the last time you asked. the same can br transferred to a horse, they ask for a response in the lane, and either they get on or they don't. his trip tothe mountains was extra ordinary. in my mind i feel he injected himself. he didn't care. he wanted to win and did what he needed to do to win, cheat: just like barry "soon to be out on" bonds. for him to make up that much time in the mountains is not normal. i doubt if eddie mercx or bernard hinault himself could have achieved that.