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Doping for the rest of us
Bruce Adelsman (webmeister of skinnyski.com) sends out a great little
newsletter in the off season. The one that I just received had a link to an upcoming article in Outside Magazine about performance enhancing drugs from a Masters perspective. It is written by Stuart Stevens who is a 48 year old biker and cross country skier. Many on this newsgroup will remember him as the guy who in the early years of the World Loppet completed all ten marathons in a single year. This is a great article. Not possessing a science background I have found many of the discussions about the short and long term effect of performance enhancing drugs to be a bit difficult to follow. In this article he describes his experiment of "one" with a number of different drugs and the subsequent effect on his body and performance in some long distance biking events. Contact Bruce at skinnyski.com to be included on the mailing list for his newsletter....in the meantime I hope he won't mind me passing on the link to the article. Very interesting stuff http://outside.away.com/outside/body...ug_test_1.html John OC |
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Doping for the rest of us
Entertaining article by an amateur bicyclist and cross country skier with
lots of stories about how he tried using different drugs for training and events. My response: If I found myself wanting to try using an altitude tent or drugs to move up in my finish-order placement in races, I'd take it as proof that I was taking my masters amateur racing much too seriously -- that I needed to back off and find a new lifestyle. Aging: What's more interesting is the question of what I'd do to fight against the _loss_ of performance capability due to aging (or disease?). Like if there was a favorite mountain ski tour that I couldn't do any more, even with reasonable training preparation. So far that's not happening -- my speed and endurance are still on an upward path (thanks to following suggestions from this newsgroup). But if I started to feel major loss in my backcountry touring achievements, I'm pretty sure then I'd be ready to figure out how to use an altitude tent or drugs, if I had the money available. So thanks for sharing that, John -- I'm interested to hear about more articles and stories about using drugs and altitude tents and other new approaches for fighting the losses due to aging or disease. Ken _______________________________________ Summary: Here's a quick summary of what I understood from a quick read of the article: Stevens found out about a new marketing approach being used by medical doctors in the US who want to sell drug-based athletic-performance-enhancement services. Seemed like once he had like $5,000-10,000 available to spend for a season, he didn't find it very difficult to connect with those doctors. Seemed like he didn't feel much risk of problems with US federal or state law enforcement agencies in doing this, nor did his doctor. Except for the anabolic steroid he tried, didn't seem like he was all that worried about adverse effects from taking the drugs for one season under the supervision of an experienced medical doctor. Stevens found out that the drugs worked for him, and delivered major performance-gain results. (in case anybody hadn't guessed that from Soldier Hollow 2002 and news reports from other sports). Seems like he also _enjoyed_ the feeling and experience _during_ his big ultra-distance events with the support of drugs. He said he liked the HGH, but it was so expensive. But he didn't like the EPO experience, even if it became cheaper. And never again anabolic steroids. Testosterone? Something about how endurance athletes might experience a decline in testosterone levels which might lead to osteoporosis. Did he also mention the possibility that taking supplementary testosterone could increase the risk of prostate cancer? But that's from just a quick read -- better to check the details out yourself: http://outside.away.com/outside/body...ug_test_1.html Ken |
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