Hdgkdhjcd wrote:
Watch his interview on Flotrack...
1) this is not his last race before USA's. He'll run a 5k at Stunptown next week.
2) He has been working out for less than a month because of Boston.
3) This was a tempo effort for him to get used to the track, he said. And he did a couple 400s afterwards.
Did you see the extra interviews on Flowtrack Pro Interviews: Behind the Scenes ($49.99 per month)???
Here is an excerpt from the Flowtrack Pro interview:
From: Salazar, Alberto
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 5:09 PM
To: 'Becky Renck'
Subject: RE: Kara Goucher
HI Becky, I hope this email finds you doing well! I am contacting you
regarding Kara Goucher. She gave birth about ten weeks ago and
recently she had a blood test done and we found that her ferritin and HGB
levels were much lower than her normal levels.
Ferritin : 17 versus 200
HGB : 13 versus 15.5
She usually takes several iron pills per day but got off of them during her
pregnancy. She has increased her iron pills to the normal amount starting
a few days ago. She races in three and half weeks and is really struggling
right now because of these low levels. There is no way that she can build
up her ferritin levels and get a sizeable improvement in HGB levels in this
time period. I know that Intravenous transfusions are not allowed, but
wondered if Intravenous iron injections of Ferumoxytol were okay to
do? From reading on the internet it says that the normal treatment is
about 18 mls of a 30 mg/ml injection done twice over an eight day period,
intravenously. I called Dr.Bob Adams with USATF today and he wasn't
sure so he recommended I call you. Thanks for any advice you can give
us on this. Happy Holidays! Alberto Salazar
Dathan Ritzenhein said:
"I felt like that was a point when he [Salazar] tried to abuse that [i.e. thyroid medication] for a game, and that’s the time that I really felt like he [Salazar] was was trying to do that instead of just whatever was best for my health on that.173"
Ritzenhein was then asked – “[W]hat are the factors that caused you to reach that conclusion that he [Salazar] was pushing you to use a medication to enhance performance, rather than to help your health?â€174 Ritzenhein responded:
"Because I just felt like I was telling them [Salazar and Dr. Brown] that I didn’t feel good on this amount [of thyroid medication], and that it was, that concern was disregarded, and told to just continue on it, and so, that was contrary to what I was telling him how I felt."
"And he [Salazar] was PARANOID, I believe, from the year before the rise [in TSH] that I had had right around the time of the New York City Marathon, and I think that he told me at one point, it’s better to be, it’s better to be a little low [in terms of TSH level], because it’s easy to back off [on thyroid medication], but if you are high, if your TSH is, like once you start feeling bad, it takes awhile to start feeling good again, so it’s easier to back off than it is to take more [thyroid medication]."
Wait a minute.
Did Ritz say that Coach Alberto was paranoid about hormone levels?
This is not a big surprise with Alberto.
In a Dec. 20, 2011, email to Rupp, Alberto wrote: "TAKE A FULL EXTRA LEVOXYL (Prescription thyroid hormone drug T4) TONIGHT AND START ON CYTOMEL (Prescription thyroid hormone drug T3) RIGHT AWAY. P.S. I'VE GOT CYTOMEL. IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, CALL ME AND I'LL DRIVE IT OVER."
(By the way, Coach Alberto is not a doctor. Coach Alberto does not have a license to practice medicine. It would be illegal for Coach Alberto to "play doctor" with Galen Rupp by giving directions to Galen Rupp to increase his dose of Levoxyl and to start on another prescription thyroid hormone drug at the same time…which could easily cause side effects/adverse reactions for Galen.)
It could also cause some adverse reactions for Coach Alberto.
For example:
https://www.si.com/olympics/2017/03/07/alberto-salazar-doping-allegations-fbi-investigation