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Fascinating article. I've always wondered about the proportionality of increase with drugs like this, and he makes it sound quite a bit more dramatic than I ima
by sushisource 9y ago
Fascinating article. I've always wondered about the proportionality of increase with drugs like this, and he makes it sound quite a bit more dramatic than I imagined.
I pretty frequently place in the top 5% in amateur mid-distance running, like 10k or half marathon. Sounds like if I was on the juice I could easily be in the running for podium finishes.
Not that I would, but, geez.
- nradov 9y agoI suspect that some of the amateur runners on the podium at the larger local races are geared. No way to prove it though. There's no prize money and no drug testing. People will do crazy stuff just for pride.
- bo1024 9y agoFrom what I've heard, it sounds like a lot of the benefits are in recovery, i.e. the drugs don't make you faster, but they allow you to train harder and still recover/improve which is what makes you faster. (I would guess maybe EPO is an exception...) So if you're not already training hard enough that you struggle to recover, I wonder if they'd really make a difference beyond placebo.