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Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads.Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators.
Ironman 70.3 Budapest, 2014. An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km).
Ironman 70.3 North Carolina: Wilmington weather on race day More than 3,000 athletes took part in the Ironman 70.3 North Carolina on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 in Wilmington, N.C.
The top average speed over the men's 1 km (0.6 mi) time trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics was 16.4 metres per second (59 km/h; 37 mph) recorded by Chris Hoy. Average speeds clearly drop with increasing distance, so that over the 120 km (70 mi) Cootamundra Annual Classic it is 11.8 metres per second (42 km/h; 26 mph).
In this documentary for Bicycling, Liesl Lar shares her fertility journey—and how training for the grueling Fistful of Dirt bike race gave her strength.
[70] [71] With each sport being an endurance event, training for a triathlon provides cardiovascular exercise benefits. [72] Additionally, triathletes encounter fewer injuries than those who only use running as part of their exercise routine due to the incorporation of low impact swim and bike training.
The definition of ultra-distance cycling is far more vague than in ultra running (any race longer than a marathon) or in ultra-triathlon (any race longer than an Ironman Triathlon). Any bike race or ride longer than a century ride, which is 100 miles (160 km), is sometimes considered to be ultra-distance cycling. However, such events are ...
The Tour of Somerville is an annual, three-day series of bicycle races held in and around Somerville, New Jersey, during Memorial Day weekend.The featured Memorial Day event, the Kugler-Anderson 50-mile race for professional and elite cyclists is the oldest competitive bicycle race in the country, having first been run in 1940. [1]