A lot rests in your quest to be an Olympian next year with your mother and father and what they have provided you genetically.

I can cite two cases here in Sydney, Australia.

In 2000 or 2001 the Australian road race champion was a rider called Phillip Thaux after riding only for a very brief time. His first road races at club level were on borrowed bikes, mountain bikes (his siser's bike I recall) and riding in joggers/sandshoes and he was immediately winning!.

At the other extreme you have an athlete named Guy Leech. Leech was an Australian Ironman champion which is multi discipline in the surf/beach covering swimming, running, surf board and surf ski. He had exceptional endurance testing results in the lab and was a top class swimmer and runner. In 1990 he was judged the winner in Channel 9's "Sixty Minutes" Australia's fittest athlete contest.

Leech retired from surf events and chose to pursue ironman triathlons, particularly Hawaii, and obtained a professional coach to fast track him into becoming a competitive cyclist. But therein he did not succeed and I can only recall seeing him in one short event having great difficulties on the bike and, for some reason, he gave up triathlons and his pursuit to win Hawaii.

I hope in pursuit of your dreams your parents gentically disposed you in cycling to be more like Phil Thaux

Dear Steve

I thank you very much for the action you have decided to take on this matter which was to delete the racist and Unjust posts of ECCE, I find this action fair and just I do not expect you to be a peoples monitor in this forum but I would expect you to deal with Racist Comments and Comments that should not be in any forum well Thanks again and I hope to hear from you very soon.

Kind regards
A H Khadra

Dear Veloflash

Well my Father was a Bodybuilder for sometimes and he also Played football for Freetown United in Sierra Leon and he won the FA CUP of Sierra Leon with them my Father was a very fit person and had loads of stamina I am not sure I got his gene for Muscular Built But I think I got his Genes for Stamina and Strengh which are very Important in Cycling I think, well I am not a person who lets Gene Rules his performance as lots of athletes Where unhealthy and slow But then they trained like there is no tommorow and made it big and I will hit the big times and the Olympics, well I hope to hear from you very soon.

Kind regards
A H Khadra

To correlate your athletic potential, Olympic 5k are often sub 13 minutes. Your 21:52 (or sub 17 goal time) is pathetic and often reached by high-school girls who have very very little ability as athletes.

Have fun cycling, but do not ruin your name, or the good name of Olympics.

Dear Juan

I franckly think your the pathetic One as you dont know anything about me and you come here accusing me of being pathetic for my 5K times well for your Information I was a Sprinter when I set a P.B in the 5K of 14.50 and a 35.46.12 10k at 17 and a 75.40.34 Half Marathon at the Age of 17 and I was Only 17 and for you to come and say am Pathetic is really Uncalled for, I ran a 10.75 100m at the age of 16 and a 22.3 200m at the same age so My times are well Up there and I was Ranked in top 40 Athletes in Asia and the top U20 Athlete in Lebanon, well as for me Bringing Down the name of cycling well in your Face Juan I can Guarantee you any Thing that I am a much better Runner and Cylist than you'll ever and for and all the other people who are finding my Efforts and Vision to Hard to Handle and to hard for you to acheive on a personal level well you can disrespect my ability and call me name and say am not good enough but one thing you should know I use these Comments to Futher Fuel my Desire and Motivation to compete at the Athens Olympics and any Other Major Championships Starting this summer well I hope you Understand who you are talking to before you start calling people Pathetic and disrespecting them well I hope to hear from you very soon.

Kind regards
A H Khadra

...but they don't show up anywhere on the "UNITED KINGDOM ALL-TIME LISTS - UNDER 17 MEN."

http://www.gbrathletics.com/uk/mu17.htm

And, respectfully, I ran a faster half marathon at age 17, so Take it Easy who You Decide to Accuse!

Juanteal:

I think you are shooting from the hip. Read his post carefully. At that age he was referring to U20 "Asia" and "Lebanon", not UK.

MD-Cyclist:

If you are running those sprint times and your old man was a competitive weightlifter I would venture to say you have a predominance of fast twitch muscle fibre.

If you are a genetically predisposed to be a sprinter, I would ditch contemplating the TT in favour of assembling other Lebanese riders for the 2004 Olympics to lead you out!

Dear juan

Your the one accusing me of being pathetic so dont tell me to take it easy and who i accuse its you who came here not knowing anything about me and you call me pathetic I was a World Junior Championships Qualifier for the 2002 World Junior Champs I did not go as I broke a Bone in My back I a dual Citizen A Lebanese and a British But when It comes to sports I am definetly a representative of Lebanon, well Regarding your half Marathon Time being Faster than Mine I honestly Dont really care as Many top class Athletes have off days and they get beaten by the most unlikliest person, well I set my Half Marathon Time whilst still being a sprinter whit only 2 solid months of running 3 miles to 5 miles a day so I think for a sprinter to get the time i got its pretty damn good.

Dear VeloFlash

I dont think I will be concentrating on the time trials that much I will be more looking at actuall road races and I feel I have the stamina and the passion for the road races rather than the time trials but i will be doing some time trials, I wanted to ask you to clarify your last comment you made which I have copied and passed so that you know which passege I am telling you about.

If you are a genetically predisposed to be a sprinter, I would ditch contemplating the TT in favour of assembling other Lebanese riders for the 2004 Olympics to lead you out!

I know Its a Positive Comment but still I do not understand it fully so if you can clarify it for me to understand well I hope to hear from you very soon.


Kind regards
A H Khadra

MD veloflash is saying that if you are a sprinter who wants to road race then you will need a team to pull you through the majority of the race so that you have a good shot at a sprint finish.

the reality of road cycling is that most of the team will sacrafice a good result to put their lead man in a position for the finish.

if you are truly a sprinter bodytype then TT is probably going to be hard work since TT is about high power to weight ratio for a fairly long time. I got told to forget TT cause i am way to heavy and although my power output is quite good its not up at the 8W per kilo of body mass that good TT riders put out.

so if you are fairly muscular and heavy you may want to check out track for sprint races and really short TTs

by the way how tall and heavy are you and do you know your 1 rep max for squat and clean and jerk?

as for the

as an aside, the world's best male TTers can manage at the very most (for ~ 1-hr) ~6.5 W/kg, e.g., Boardman's Superman Hour Record was 6.6 W/kg.

Ric

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Dear Ricstern/ Duckwah




I am 1.69m and around 61KG in weight I am not as Muscular as Many Sprinters are I am Must Small Than Some of the Athletes I raced against I managed to win races With the help of My shoulders as I was able to Like Lifts and speed just by rotating my shoulders in the running position and I feel now that I am Much Suited to The road Races not the TT as when I was doing cross Country I found my self Running at a reasonable pace but then I feel Like Speeding Up almost to my 400m Sprinting pace and Sprint the last 600m or so and when I cross the line I feel let down as I am not tired and I feel like I could Have actually Ran the last 600m at almost 200m times which I did a few times and It improved my Position so I think what veloflash said its pretty interesting but he needs to know Lebanon only has Mountain Biking Cyclist and I beleive my self to be the Only Lebanese Road Cyclist as It was Varified to me by the National Federation when I called them Yesterday, I was told they will be Issuing me with a Lebanese Cycling Lisence and they Said They will Take Up my Issue Regarding the B World Championships and the PAN-ARAB games this Summer so It looking promesing, well I think I can Use other Teams as my Pace Cyclist till Propably 600m From the Finish Time and Then Just Explode to the Finish Line It sounds like a good Idea to me as I will not have any Fellow Lebanese Cyclist in large Cycling events well I hope to hear from you very soon.

Kind regards
A H Khadra

Hey all

How is everyone Doing I am doing well Training is good But I need to start Doing Long cycles of 4hto8h very soon, well I am going to race my first road race in april as schedualed, well a little Update I have been In touched with my National Federation and I am soon to Be issued with A Lebanese Cycling Federation Cycling Lisence I am still in Talks to try and get my self a Elite Cycling Lisence and I hope I will be able to get as I am counted as a Elite Cyclist in Lebanon as there no Raod Cyclists from Lebanon But if youhere of One then please tell me well I hope YOU ALL HAD A GREAT ST PATRICKS DAY wether or not your Irish well Take care and catch you all soon.

Kind regards
A H Khadra

dear MD-Cyclist!

I have don't read all the post becacuse I am French and I don't speak english very welle, as you can see!!!

I am a racer in France. I think your idea is a very good idea, but I think it will be too short for Athens...

My advice :

You takes a licence in a Londonian team and race there during the seasons 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Then, if you are good, the best mind to progress is to come in a country with a higher level than France, where a lot of amators teams will be happy to work with you. You could race in France in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

3 years at a high amators level, it's a good thing to progress.

In 2007, you could make the pre-olympian world championships with a possibility to qualify you for the olympic games in China.

For the trainer, there is a good trainer online (they train profesionnal racers) it's

www.velotraining.com

Good luck and good training!

Sylvain007

I would have to pass on that training plan. I would spend too much training time consulting my German/English dictionary!

It's in French!!!!! But, there are web traductors online (for exemple http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en