Us President George W Bush plunged down hills and ploughed through the brush on his high-performance mountain bike – and wound up flat on his back.
A bit shaken, the president dusted himself off, got back on his bike and kept rolling, a small cut on his knee and dirt on his back.
Bush, a one-time jogger, tore around his 1,600-acre Texas ranch today.
He has been riding a mountain bike only since February, but he rides with abandon. He went biking as Democrats gathered in Boston for their convention to nominate Sen John Kerry as their presidential candidate.
Bush keeps a cramp-inducing pace on the uphills, panting hard by the time he reaches each peak, backing off a little to recover, attacking the next hill just as hard.
His heart rate reached 168 beats per minute, about four times his resting rate and in the same range as Lance Armstrong’s when the six-time Tour de France winner is pedalling hard.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3257242Tears around his ranch like Lance does he?!! Too funny.
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