No Surprise, Ed Whitlock does it again.

Of course I don't have any direct evidence.

Heck, I don't even think he's necessarily a bad guy--he seems a decent chap to me, although I wish he'd make some sort of statement one way or another.

How about this: if he did make a statement to the effect that he was taking nothing, I WOULD believe him.

In which case, I can't wait to turn 73 so that I can set a PR.[/quote]

Well sprint geezer I don't respond to what I interpret to be non serious posts, but this post seems to have a different tone to earlier ones.

I do not have a coach, manager or athletic doctor so I have no access to illegal drug supply and advice. I try to be careful about taking over the counter medications that could be a problem.

I don't take any nutritional supplements.

I am not on any prescribed medicines for any conditions.

The only pills I take regularly are glucosamine in the hope that it will help my suspect knees and vitamin C to ward off a tendancy to catch colds.

I have on occasion taken tylenol for pain.

That's it.

Thanks to all the other posters for the nice comments.

Ed Whitlock wrote:

Well sprint geezer I don't respond to what I interpret to be non serious posts, but this post seems to have a different tone to earlier ones.

I do not have a coach, manager or athletic doctor so I have no access to illegal drug supply and advice. I try to be careful about taking over the counter medications that could be a problem.

I don't take any nutritional supplements.

I am not on any prescribed medicines for any conditions.

The only pills I take regularly are glucosamine in the hope that it will help my suspect knees and vitamin C to ward off a tendancy to catch colds.

I have on occasion taken tylenol for pain.

That's it.

Thanks to all the other posters for the nice comments.

I'll add another nice comment:

I don't generally have heroes- especially at my age- but you come as close as anyone.

All the best to you, Ed.

Ed- Great work and a quick question:

I recently noticed in an article it was mentioned that you may have been cutting the backs out of your shoes for quite some time. Is this accurate? I know you have had achilles problems in the past. Thanks from an old "shoe-cutter"!

Way to plase ahead of the competition ed.

There is no runner in the world I respect more than Ed Whitlock, and that includes Olympic champions past and present. We all know what is supposed to happen as we age, and although Ed can't reverse the sands of time, he has found a way to hold them back to an extent I wouldn't have thought possible.

Ed,

Not wanting to get too schmaltzy here, but you certainly are a beacon to us master's runners. You have demonstrated what is possible, and illustrated to those that would think otherwise, that octogenarians can get out there and carve up the track.

Major kudos to you, my good sir. You are a gentleman and a damn fine runner!

Great post Ed and some great running in Sacramento. Congratulations!

You have lots of fans in the world, I am one.

Will the mods please ban this idiot?

Crimea River wrote:

Ed- Great work and a quick question:

I recently noticed in an article it was mentioned that you may have been cutting the backs out of your shoes for quite some time. Is this accurate? I know you have had achilles problems in the past. Thanks from an old "shoe-cutter"!

I don't remember when I first cut a wedge out of my racing flats, I think it was about 10 years ago. I did it on my racing flats because I always wore off the heels and thought this was using energy to do this and maybe this would marginally increase the length of each stride. I don't do it for my training shoes because I am not interested in efficiency there. My achilles problems in the past seem to be associated with interval training, that's why I went away from that.

Ed,

Is that the rubber on the bottom you remove?

How exactly do you do this? Thanks very much.

jimmy joe wrote:

well he does respond on this board sometimes, so maybe you'll get a chance to ask him. I think he has arthritis, so he probably takes something for that. I bet he has had some cortisone injections on his knee. a lot of people that age are on statins. But I doubt very much that the guy is taking testosterone, HGH, or EPO, i.e. "doping."

You must be joking. Have you ever seen pictures of Ed?

He's as big as Arnold or Ferrigno in their prime.

The real mystery is how he lugs all that muscle so fast for such long distances.

Sprint Geezer wrote:

D-R-U-G-S

Ed Whitlock is a massive D-O-P-E-R

Ed Whitlock is a C-H-E-A-T

OK so he's an OLD C-H-E-A-T, but he's still a C-H-E-A-T

Let us know how fast you're running 10K when you're 80 years old and you can pee in a cup for us!

Ed kicked my arse in 2000 at the Columbus Marathon and although it made me mad it also made me work harder!

Congratulations on your newest world records Ed. You shouldn't even waste your time responding to that dolt. We're also aware of those other idiotic comments NOT made by you, but by someone who somehow stole your name recently.

More importantly; Thats 4 excellent efforts, 2 10,000's, a 5,000 and now a 1,500 since Rotterdam. It would seem that your training is going very well lately. From what I can gather, you are putting in many 2 hour+ runs currently. I know that you don't do any formal speed work Ed, but your speed at these shorter distances is excellent. It continues to amaze me how you can "turn it over" like that by just putting in those long runs at probably 9-10 min/mile.

Continued good health and success Ed. I am, as another poster put it, also an Ed Whitlock fan.

Sprint Geezer wrote:

It's not about health, it's about character.

He chooses to enter "sanctioned" events, and to receive the accolades and recognition showered upon him, while likely concealing the details of his exploits.

While he may be strong on endurance, he is weak on candor.

So, Ed, why don't you come clean? Give us your list of "medications".

OK, OK, OK....I just cant take it anymore. I just got back into the hotel after a long day which included my 1500 meter win (5:48.93) and some sight seeing in Sacramento. I'm sitting on my hotel bed with my lap top on and noticed this post. So, here is my list:

Geratol (my favorite multi-vitamin)

Warfarin (my anticoagulant med)

Paracetamol (for general aches and pains)

Lactulose (for my constipation)

Movicol (another laxative)

Metamucil (laxative/fiber supplemnt)

Bengay (helps sooth my sore muscles)

Viagra/Lavetra/Cialis (you know)

Cycles of EPO and HGH (helps me set world records and high age-grade performances)

OK, Sprint Geezer, I hope you are happy now.

Sincerely,

Mr. Whitlock

I'd like to see Sprint Geezer apologize or he will lose all credibility with us.

I would not be surprised if Ed breaks every distance record up to 100 years.

Didn't a 100 year old man run a 30 second 100meter dash several years ago.

Thanks for posting here, Ed, and for your candor and grace.

I remember you writing several years back about your daily three-hour runs on a loop through a cemetary. (I thought about that last month when I was on vacation in Biloxi, Mississippi, and ventured into a military cemetary there, hoping to do a loop run on a brutally hot morning. Unfortunately, a sign informed me that running there was prohibited.)

If you wouldn't mind, would you briefly sketch your training in the 2-3 months leading up to your performances this time. I'm genuinely curious. Please interpret "briefly" any way that you care to; my intent is not to burden you with a request for daily logs, but rather to get a sense of what you're willing and able to do in a training way--and, just as important, what your body is willing to do for you.

Thanks!

signed, "53 and still crazy enough to run two hours every Sunday on July mornings in Mississippi"

That should be "cemetery," shouldn't it? Sorry about that.

You just want to see a statement.

Paying money to be drug tested (which is what you have to do at the World Master's) and then breaking world records would seem to be enough of a statement.