> Interesting article... if you read it further...
>
> This was a study of "well-trained cyclists" and the
> exercise test was
> performed at 62%-64% of VO2max. Have you any idea
> how low an intensity this
> is for a trained athlete? It's abysmally slow and
> will not induce any
> training effect, let alone be sufficiently intense
> to compete at (except in
> ultradistance maybe, we're talking 24-48hr
> competition). It's what we'd call
> a 'recovery' workout. I wonder what their results
> showed at different
> intensities and whether this supportive finding was
> cherry picked from the
> data because at higher intensities performance
> suffered?

Will,

Thanks for pointing this out.  This agrees MUCH MORE
with my own experience.

L

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