There but for the grace of God go I.

davidd86

I was just thinking: so many of us mediocre Cat III/just-for-fun-but-with-a-whiff-of-seriousness folks take vitamin supplements and mix performance enhancers that we buy from Excel or Performance that supposedly give you a slight boost. One of my teammates made a vile concoction of very strong tea and Gatorade and put it in one of his water bottles as "jet fuel". I remember when Cytomax was popular I used to gobble that stuff down. Now, these are surely child's play compared to real dopage, but it's interesting how even at the bush league level there's this mentality of trying to get even the slightest fitness edge. When you raise the stakes millions of times upwards, it surrrrrre is hard to decry the big boys for taking stuff. I mean it sucks that they do, and it totally ruins the sport, but I have to admit, it's a slippery slope -- we crappy racers are taking a watered-down suburban version of this stuff. There have been times in my life that I was really really motivated for better results and if the doctor had prescribed something or other to help, I would have looked the other way I think. I hate that!

Ullefan

Most of us would take anything to give us an edge, I wouldn't take anything banned though, but when you're a pro and everything is at stake, stranger things can happen. I take Budesonide daily for my asthma, does that make me a doper? I'm sure I wouldn't be performing as well without it, hmmm.

Dead Star

do you realise how hard it is to read that? :P

davidd86

Tell me more about this Pot Belge. Sounds gnarly! You can't be serious that riders really take heroin!?!