I tweaked a small muscle in my back on Monday and it is still pissed at me. Esp right when i wake up. So I bagged the bleary eyed run that would have certainly been a plod like yesterday, in small hopes that I can get up and blitz it tomorrow. Plodding isn't so much fun.
Now before I forget I suppose I need to clear something up. Solo seemed to read yesterday that I suggested that there's a lot of dopers in Masters racing around here. I am very happy (or naive) to say I believe the field is pretty fucking clean. I know most people by name, many better than that and you can pretty much look down the results list and explain w/o drugs where there are. Sure there might be one or two but I actually kind of doubt it. Masters racing in New England is fucking cut throat serious but at the end of the day everyone still shows up with what they got. There are plenty of ex-pros in the ranks, past national champions, multi-podium placings in many years. Legitimately fast dudes. The race I "heard" about, oh btw, I have a hard time saying I read anything on Twitter - can you really call looking at 140 characters reading? This race where a bunch of people in the masters race DNSd or something because the vampires showed up was a big money crit in VA if the stories are true. Please don't take what I said yesterday as suggesting that any of yall you regularly kick my ass on the bike are on the juice. One of those things maybe should have left alone. Hell I figured tossing in "verge" points would be enough of a red-flag about the sarcasm/humor/joking nature of the comment.
Skipping the run actually left my legs pretty fresh for the ride in. A few yards away from jumping on the path one of my co-workers headed past, he's not one of the slower ones and I figured, no run? lets crank this up. And my legs actually responded pretty well.
Took a while to catch (on the slight rise into Riverside) and I said hey and slowed a touch to see if he was going to lift the pace to chat a bit, but nope, he kept it steady so I had no choice, keep up the speed. And keep it up we did.
My stoker actually even worked most of the ride in. Before long I caught a glimpse of saddle bagged commuter, one bag on the left, that's one of the Marks and well, i dug a bit deeper into the red and we caught him and passed him. He said it was like being passed by a Freight train. He did lift his pace and came up to speed and I managed to hold the speed up to the rise and then keep the watts up over the slight hill. Mark said even my stoker was breathing hard (i was way beyond the limit), that was a cool moment for me. She might not have many watts but it does make a difference a bit like a draft. So no run but I at least got a good Italian Tune Up this morning on the way in.
No closer to being ready for a crit on sunday but ready or not i'm racing, gonna be fun racing with a few team mates. We'll see what happens.
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The twitterer sounds like BS to me because dropping out of a race does not get you de-selected for the random. If you were on the start list then you can get called and if you don't show up then you fail.
That attitude of "anyone who is better than me must be doping" kills me. I have snuck onto the podium a few times almost every year that I've raced and most of the time I'm not even in good shape, let alone doped. I'm at 12% body fat right now...
In my case i know/assume all the people who are faster than me work for it and earn every place.
As I wrote that today it did occur to me that your name gets posted, no matter if you finish or not, and not showing is a positive test.
Just ask JP about that.
12%? you don't f'n look like 12% in that photo with the 40.
Yeah those were funny photos. I tested at 11.5% last winter and I'm 3 pounds heavier now, and near as I can tell it is all around my waist. So I'm going with 12%, at least.
And I do consume a lot of nutritional supplements but they're not from GNC and even though I think they help my recovery it's probably mostly placebo effect... Either that or they're processed in the same plant as DHEA.
But I estimate there for every guy in NE masters using PEDs there are 10 guys doing bong hits, 10 guys on Lipitor, and 20 guys on just ED without the P
well according to the good doctor Dawn R, one of the most effective LEGAL PEDs out there is the little blue pill.
well - my only nutritional supplement is the $2/2pound can of PowerBar Endurance Refuel powder I got at OSJL last year.
maybe that's why i'm not training as hard, i need supplements to help get me training like NegaCoach.
Maybe you can make your own supplements too. Or at least put up a recipe for liver.
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