There are many business lessons that people can draw from Lance Armstrong’s success at winning six Tours de France, ranging from the banal to the nuanced. One that I find intriguing is how important it is to portion your hardest efforts in a long race like this. Case in point, the follow factoid from today’s WSJ:
“In a telling statistic, a rough calculation reveals that Armstrong raced alone at the front of the peloton for just 9.125 kilometers out of the more than 3,000 kilometers of racing during the three-week Tour. Take away the time trials, and the rest of the time he was tucked safely behind a wheel of a teammate or rival…”
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