There but for the grace of God go I.

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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!

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!
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.

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!

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

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




It's all about the definitions, excuses, excemptions and cover stories.

Is a blood transfusion illegal?

Is aspirin?

Is a saline feed?

How about horse growth hormones (EquiGen) It is undectable by any test---does that count as a drug?

How about HBOCs? (synthetic hemaglobin)

How about insulin and Actovegin?

What about testosterone, clomid and hCG????

Electrolites??? Cliff bars?

Pot Belge? (morphine, heroin, cocaine & cortiscosteroids)

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Laurent Brochard Festina friends used it ALL NIGHT after winning the 1997 World Title.

Believe it. Willy Voet was high on it in 1998---thats was why he got caught. Paranoia caused him to use the secondary road. (Judgment error)

this is most true. for anyone wishing to find out more, read voet's 'breaking the chain', nice little book, might open some people's eyes a bit :D