Lance Armstrong is a pretty good cyclist. On Sunday, the seven-time Tour de France champion proved that he’s a pretty good runner too.

In his first marathon ever, Lance completed the New York City Marathon in just under his pre-race goal of 3 hours (his official finishing time was 2 hours, 59 minutes, 36 seconds).

For all of you who have spent a good portion of your life training for this race — but have yet to even sniff the sub-three hour mark…you know how impressive this feat was.

How hard was it for Lance?

…without a doubt that was the hardest physical thing I’ve ever done,” Armstrong said at a news conference after the finish. “Even the worst days in the tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now in terms of sheer fatigue and soreness.”

Although, I’m sure if you took the world’s greatest marathon runners and asked them to complete a mountain stage of the Tour de France, they would probably say the same thing about cycling (actually, few would probably even be able to complete the stage, and even fewer would be able to do it within an hour of Lance’s typical winning times).

Oh, the winners? Brazil’s Marilson Gomes dos Santos won the men’s field, finishing in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 58 seconds and becoming the first South American winner. Defending champion Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia became the first woman in more than a decade to win the marathon twice in a row, finishing in 2 hours, 25 minutes, 5 seconds.