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Saturday, May 31, 2014

Does endurance cycling help you live longer?

Does endurance cycling help you live longer?
BBC.com
Fergus Walsh
2014-05-27
Link: http://m.bbc.com/news/health-27146342

"Does endurance cycling help you live longer? Take one look at cycling legend Brian Robinson, and you may have your answer.

Brian, aged 83, is a bone fide British cycling legend: the first Briton to finish the Tour de France in 1956 and the first to win a Tour stage in 1958.

He still lives in the village of Mirfield in West Yorkshire, where he was brought up, and still cycles twice a week.

"I do have a healthy lifestyle," he says. "I can recommend cycling. They say it gives you an extra 10 years of life - another decade would do me fine!"

You can get a sense of just how good Robinson was from his victory in the 20th stage of the 1959 Tour de France, from Annecy to Chalon-sur-Saone."

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