BIKE: How Lance didit

[Patrick Goetz]

This article is kind of interesting.

"Armstrong possesses a large, strong heart that can beat over 200 times 
a minute operating at maximum capacity and pump an exceptionally large 
volume of blood and oxygen to his legs—only around 100 other men on 
earth, who have been tested, have comparable abilities and only two 
other competitive cyclists that Coyle has tested in the past 20 years 
have even come close to Armstrong’s 200 heartbeats per minute.

If a normal male college student were to train at a grueling pace for 
two or more years, the student’s maximum oxygen uptake would not 
increase above 60 ml/kg/min—Coyle estimates that even if Armstrong 
became a couch potato, his would not dip below 60 ml/kg/min."

   http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2005/06/education15.html