But not as good as a ped. So that's what they use.
It's performance enhancing, not a performance enhancing drug, flat-earther.
Bananas, chocolate bars, coffee and electrolyte drinks are also similarly performance enhancing. They aren't peds either. Baking soda isn't what lies behind recent improvements.
Snell's 1:44 on grass is equivalent to 1:42 on a modern track.
Surpirising to see you accusing Snell of doping. So, maybe...
Snell was an exception in the 20th century, like a Rudisha in this century. But now runners we have never previously heard of are queuing up to run 1:42 or better. Some, only 16.
Snell's 1:44 on grass is equivalent to 1:42 on a modern track.
Surpirising to see you accusing Snell of doping. So, maybe...
Snell was an exception in the 20th century, like a Rudisha in this century. But now runners we have never previously heard of are queuing up to run 1:42 or better. Some, only 16.
Runners you never previously heard of because you don't follow the sport. You know like, Aregawi.
Funny how a 16 year old boy occupies your thoughts so much. Maybe the word shouldn't be "funny"...
Snell was an exception in the 20th century, like a Rudisha in this century. But now runners we have never previously heard of are queuing up to run 1:42 or better. Some, only 16.
Runners you never previously heard of because you don't follow the sport. You know like, Aregawi.
Funny how a 16 year old boy occupies your thoughts so much. Maybe the word shouldn't be "funny"...
So you never saw the succession of threads about a 16 year old running 1:42 that attracted countless posts. They must have been "funny" in your books, too. But you just give away the direction your mind runs. An own goal.
The whole challenge of the 800 is holding it together over the final 200. And you can never be sure you'll hold form and speed. That's what makes each race interesting.
If eating a bunch of baking soda with a buffer to get past the stomach eliminates this factor, yes it's nice to see faster times, but that will lose all meaning pretty quick. You'll see.
Who'd a thunk a simple trick like that would make the 800 so easy, all those decades nobody knew. But there it is.
Well once everyone is doing it then you still run into that issue. Stop focusing on times so much and look at the competition. If a race is won in a photo finish do you care what the times were (within reason--I would not be excited by a 3 minute 800 even it were a photofinish).
So does Rudisha run 1:39.80 with bicarbonate and does Krotchlady run 1:52.05 or so? Or even faster?
I sincerely hope not. I hope it's all another fad, placebo effect at best.
But the improbable performances keep stacking up. Too many people going 1:41, too many Keely's going 1:54, too many high school sophomores going 1:42. Getting hard to disbelieve.
I guess I'm gonna have to try it and see. But in a way, I don't wanna know.
Hard to see it being a placebo effect. The advantages of bicarb have been known for several decades.
It's not that easy. Bi-Carb is less of a factor than you think, compared to things like caffeine, or nitrates that give a bigger percentage boost, and have 3rd party studies to back them... where-as Maurten has yet to do so because they're frightened to release data showing it's basically a placebo. Finally, none of these things amount to 800 runners' and sprinters prime performance enhancer... Raw, inherited talent.
Bicarb benefits have been known for decades. One of my grad school profs was involved in studies using them in the 80s. The problem was the explosive diarrhea that often accompanied usage.
800m runners have been drinking coffee forever. Nitrates? They've been in the diet for a long time. What accounts for the sudden and rapid drops among elite 800m runners other than bicarb?
Another factor may be threshold training, especially for 1500 and 5000, but look at what Hoey has done with it in the 800m and probably others as well.
800m runners have been drinking coffee forever. Nitrates? They've been in the diet for a long time. What accounts for the sudden and rapid drops among elite 800m runners other than bicarb?
More peds beating testing. They are being developed continuously.
How was Snell an exception like Rudisha? A high school boy beat Snell.
Unlike the high school boy Snell won two consecutive Olympic golds over the 800 as well as the 800/1500 double. He also shattered the previous wrs for the 800/half mile, and broke the wr for the mile twice. Rudisha didn't achieve this range of feats as he was an 800 specialist.
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I sincerely hope not. I hope it's all another fad, placebo effect at best.
But the improbable performances keep stacking up. Too many people going 1:41, too many Keely's going 1:54, too many high school sophomores going 1:42. Getting hard to disbelieve.
I guess I'm gonna have to try it and see. But in a way, I don't wanna know.
Hard to see it being a placebo effect. The advantages of bicarb have been known for several decades.
Then it can't explain a sudden surge of recent performances.
Runners you never previously heard of because you don't follow the sport. You know like, Aregawi.
Funny how a 16 year old boy occupies your thoughts so much. Maybe the word shouldn't be "funny"...
So you never saw the succession of threads about a 16 year old running 1:42 that attracted countless posts. They must have been "funny" in your books, too. But you just give away the direction your mind runs. An own goal.
I give away the direction your mind runs. You know, you of the pedophile jokes. An own goal for you, as always.
How was Snell an exception like Rudisha? A high school boy beat Snell.
Unlike the high school boy Snell won two consecutive Olympic golds over the 800 as well as the 800/1500 double. He also shattered the previous wrs for the 800/half mile, and broke the wr for the mile twice. Rudisha didn't achieve this range of feats as he was an 800 specialist.
when professional running wasn't a thing though, meaning the field was weak. If Snell were born in 2000. he might not have made the team.
Unlike the high school boy Snell won two consecutive Olympic golds over the 800 as well as the 800/1500 double. He also shattered the previous wrs for the 800/half mile, and broke the wr for the mile twice. Rudisha didn't achieve this range of feats as he was an 800 specialist.
when professional running wasn't a thing though, meaning the field was weak. If Snell were born in 2000. he might not have made the team.
Snell 144 on grass with zero soft peds bicarb with soso pacing void of competion, off good but not yet perfected training.
that guy makes every team every year every century everycountry on this planet. to date.