now peanut does a good job of getting her sponsor's exposure...
katie seems to do it in a much less subtle and kinda annoying way...
i mean she does need to give her sponsor's props... and the shout out to the FatMarc crew in the mid atlantic and all is cool...
that new sports drink... i guess its cool... but... sugar... glycogen... ya need more than just caffine to go fast... although... lookin at Katie start... looking at her power... holy shit maybe there's something to it. although i think its more genetics than energy drink. But the energy drink she's pimpin doesn't even have a fully functional web page yet... most importantly from my POV is the ingredients are missing... and it wasn't among those tested/listed in the test from the NPR segment.
Big kudos to the company for stepping to the line and sponsoring a cyclocross racer, a female racer none-the-less. V. Cool. However - it will be interesting to see how it stacks up against the rest of the market... how many mgs of caffine does it contain.
And why would i want to drink that when a Star*ucks Venti of their Mexican bean will load you full of caffine to the point of needing medical attention! Seriously... if ya like caffine, try a drip brewed (fine grinds) cup of the mexican coffee from there... Back in the days of working at the Pine Street Pro Shop in seattle, when i'd get up, ride to the Ferry, hop on and switch to the passenger only boat to down town and ride up to the shop i'd stop (cause the ferry schedule got me there about 20-30 miuntes early) at the Starbucks on Pine street, between 5th and 6th (or was it 6th and 7th)... anyway this was before the days of Venti, back when Grande was as big as it got. I'd get a grande usually. And i'd be good. but the days the baristas decided to use the Mexican... i'd be jittery and amped until lunch off the one cup. Like can't hold the 2mm wrench steady enough to adjust the Deore canti brake spring tension shaky... Drinking one of those is prolly like downing three sugarfree red bulls, maybe 4 of them... cause i never put sugar or milk stuff in my drip brewed coffee... espresso is different... i think i've mentioned that before...
today i'm trying a medium roast from Allegra coffee... WholePaycheck roasts the beans in house and its organic and all that shit and it goes on sale... i ground up a 1/2 pound or less of the stuff to try out here... two cups in and i'm definately feeling the affects over the typical dark or extra dark roasted stuff i'm used to... way more caffine... just in case you doubted that dark roasted coffee has less caffine. It does.
mmm coffee...
and look... PEZ pulls a caffine article to the top
freaking kick ass article Dr Cheung, not that he's gonna read this... but still nice article.
and in other words - i'm screwed... in the high dosage daily user category it probably has no ergogenic benefits for me come race time. So, goal! Reduce caffine intake to as low as possible prior to the first race of the year... then control intake prior to competition and see what happens...
Nice note on the swimmers. The folks who were already fast, benefitted. IE they got fast FIRST then used it to boost their performance. So those folks dosing up on caffine and other 'performance' aids during/prior to training in order to get fast may be reducing the potential gains that the aids can offer come race time... or not...
Sure if you do EPO you can train harder, recover faster and train more and get faster... essentially using less time to achieve the same result that you could gain if you had patience, or if you didn't have some looming contract negotiations to motivate instant results.
Getting fast on the bike takes time. Right? Years. Days and days and days. Every day lost on the bike means a couple days lost in getting faster. Why? Ride+Recover. IF you don't recover and let the body build up from your training rides and repair itself ya ain't gonna do any good.
right?
anyway...
world cup cross in Providence? Sweeet
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