I'm of the belief that the great majority of elites dope. On the other hand, most of those that have successfully doped in long distance running seem to use a formulation that makes them stick thin with low body mass, not excess muscle mass.
Based on what exactly? The fact that you are slow and they are fast?
Based on the "tip of the iceberg" theory, that the vast majority of cheaters don't get caught since goal #1 is to avoid getting caught. The ones that do get caught are a small minority. The real number is always a large multiple of those caught.
I don’t think Teg or Solinsky doped. Shelby does put a mark on the whole group, though, and as I recall there was some suspicious biological passport stuff going on with Jager…. But I am generally a believer that the group is by and large clean. They train at extreme levels and in the make or break world that is that group, the outliers who don’t get injured are going to have incredible success. That was Solinsky. What a season that one year.
Based on the "tip of the iceberg" theory, that the vast majority of cheaters don't get caught since goal #1 is to avoid getting caught. The ones that do get caught are a small minority. The real number is always a large multiple of those caught.
Chris Solinsky trained really freaking hard and he wasn't afraid to eat. One of the best articles ever on Letsrun by Jonathan Gault describing Solinsky's American record 10k and how he crushed Galen Rupp and shady Salazar includes this gem: "If you look back at some of my better moments in my running career, I actually had, the night before, an insatiable appetite,” Solinsky says.
Solinsky began with the gnocchi at Il Fornaio, an Italian restaurant in Palo Alto, but the portion was insultingly small. So when Solinsky showed up to Cold Stone Creamery, a pre-race tradition dating back to his Wisconsin days, for his usual order (vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cookie dough, white chocolate chips, and caramel), he ordered a “Gotta Have It” — the biggest size they had. That didn’t do the job either. Only after devouring the majority of a medium pizza from Little Caesars that he “split” with Bairu did Solinsky go to bed satisfied."
Weight is irrelevant to performance. If you're training at a high level, your weight will be what it should be. You should not try to artificially change the number on the scale. Fitness is fitness, and who cares what you weigh. The number that matters is 26:59, not 165.
Weight is something that old school coaches would throw around because they were either sexist in their judgement of women's bodies, or as a way to avoid responsibility for an athlete's poor performances.
True, but I really doubt he was ever 165 in his prime.
Wouldn't doubt if he was 10 lbs heavier. He was a tank. I have about the same size frame as him, lean but less muscular and weigh 175.
I was serious. You would agree if you saw him. He is not close to ever being the thinnest guy in a race. Guess the height and weight of Owen Hoeft. Guess El Bakkali.
Your son is 6’1 and 130 and “doesn’t look thin on the track.” This is absurd. So would he have to be 6’1 and 115 to look thin on the track? Let us be real here.
Just a nice little reminder that clean-as-a-whistle and current UO head XC/track coach Jerry Schumacher was sending Solinsky and Tegenkamp to Dr. Jeffrey Brown until the sharks at USADA started circling his practice in conjunction with the Alberto Salazar case.
But somebody with a reputation like "Jerry" could never be involved with doping, right???
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