that's interesting about predisone. I too have crohns. not taken pred for years. As an anti inflammatory I can see how it would help training. I'm permanently on dihydrocodeine Sent from my GT-P1000 using Tapatalkdanfoz said:
I'm going to assume your comment is rich with sarcasm. I take 5mg Prednisone every day as part of immunosuppressant therapy, and frankly, whether or not I take a dump before I ride makes a bigger difference. In fact, any impact from Prednisone is unnoticeable.danfoz said:
No sarcasm. I was on a 3 month cycle of 40mg/day (supposedly a "moderate" dose) after a really bad scare (initially doc thought it was full blown colon cancer) but just turned out to be bad inflamation. I had started training seriously again and was concerned about any ill effects of the drug but my doc who apparently was a very active marathon runner in his day said, and I quote: "Oh no, this will make you fly". He even confessed that he had considered taking a dose the night before the NY Marathon but said he chickened out and decided there really was no benefit to coming in 1000th place insead of 2000th place. I have some HR data from that day in question and will try to dig it up. Edit: can't find the files, hopefully won't be in a position to provide an update anytime soon.
In one of the "Lance" interviews given by Hamilton or one of the other guys (forget which), the rider stated that certain riders would get baggies of goodies before certain rides. Cortocosteroids, the family of steroids prednisone belongs to, would be given to some riders before TT's. I do not know enough behind the science of how these drugs work to even speculate how these actually alter performance or when they should be taken. I do know they are not in the family of anabolics which would seemingly be of more benefit over a couple months of training, and not a one time dose.
When I did some bodybuilding as a teen, I worked out in a old school BB gym in Brooklyn and on a certain day of the week some fella would come in and many of the hardcore dudes would scurry over and they'd all dissappear into the lockers for awhile. We all knew exactly what was transpiring. Without any foresight I imagine getting your hands on some 420 to party with in a foreign country would probably be an easier task than scoring some of this stuff in your own. I wouldn't be surprised if his cycling club, local group or racing clique has some such fella who shows up periodically to dispense his "wares".Pure speculation on my part of course.
