As a British reader of this site, I have honestly never heard of her. Upon doing a Google search, she looks like one of those deranged, obsessed female fitness types, gym membership, tattoos and all.
The standard America doping runner, amazing how fast you can run when not being tested.
I'm not a fan of hers, BUT I did read somewhere recently that she is still being tested regularly. Her name came up when the author of an article was talking about the differences in who's tested and who isn't, and how many times per year. Either way, it sounds like she's still in the pool.
Yeah but roads aren't really fractal like coastlines. There's a finite limit to their curvature set by road design. So as long as your sampling rate is much finer than the radius of curvature, it's not a problem.
Don't confuse this with defending her but most virtual route measurements are almost as imprecise and short as GPS measurements because of one big problem: sample rate
Only wheel measurements are most accurate because they have "infinite resolution"
This is why people get vastly different distances if their watch is set to 1-second recording vs "smart recording" every few seconds.
"Coastline Paradox" explains this much better than I can
"An example of the coastline paradox. If the coastline of Great Britain is measured using units 100 km (62 mi) long, then the length of the coastline is approximately 2,800 km (1,700 mi). With 50 km (31 mi) units, the total length is approximately 3,400 km (2,100 mi), approximately 600 km (370 mi) longer."
It's all in the sampling rate. Wheels are almost infinite (actually limited to the gear stepping inside the device which is very very tiny samples. GPS uses 1-second sampling which is not very good if moving faster than walking slowly.
Yeah but roads aren't really fractal like coastlines. There's a finite limit to their curvature set by road design. So as long as your sampling rate is much finer than the radius of curvature, it's not a problem.
Yeah but roads aren't really fractal like coastlines. There's a finite limit to their curvature set by road design. So as long as your sampling rate is much finer than the radius of curvature, it's not a problem.
Yes but ever thought she's probably doping as won't be tested until she competes again!
She's being tested during her ban.... 6 times so far this year by USADA.
runinthewind is right about this, as we talked about it on the 10k race thread. Her testing is posted on USADA's website. She has been thoroughly tested (15-20 times each in 2021 and 2022 and 6 times so far in 2023).
I saw someone mention that she could be microdosing. Not sure exactly what this means beyond the basic principle that it is taking small doses of PEDs between testing periods so as to avoid detection.
Could someone offer insight if this is actually possible? If each test was spaced out evenly so far this year, that means she's been tested basically once a month, and once every few weeks in 2021 and 2022. If you're being tested that often, is it really possible to microdose, and if so, what substances could that even be?
Just looking at the facts and trying to discern how possible it actually is that she's doping. We can make accusations all we want, but I'm not exactly sure how well the facts support that.
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She's being tested during her ban.... 6 times so far this year by USADA.
runinthewind is right about this, as we talked about it on the 10k race thread. Her testing is posted on USADA's website. She has been thoroughly tested (15-20 times each in 2021 and 2022 and 6 times so far in 2023).
I saw someone mention that she could be microdosing. Not sure exactly what this means beyond the basic principle that it is taking small doses of PEDs between testing periods so as to avoid detection.
Could someone offer insight if this is actually possible? If each test was spaced out evenly so far this year, that means she's been tested basically once a month, and once every few weeks in 2021 and 2022. If you're being tested that often, is it really possible to microdose, and if so, what substances could that even be?
Just looking at the facts and trying to discern how possible it actually is that she's doping. We can make accusations all we want, but I'm not exactly sure how well the facts support that.
Obviously the same way she was doping before.
Normal EPO has a half life of like 3-5 days. If you are being tested every month, you will get caught. Eventually. The micro dosing (vague) gets you down to 8-10 hours. Makes it basically impossible to get caught until something screws up.
Of course it isn't like we have tons of peer reviewed literature on this stuff and have a good idea of the variance between people.
But you would need to be naive to think a clean test means much. We have way too many athletes who competed for years before getting busted...
What about all of the college runners who don;t get tested. The likelihood of them getting away with doping is 100 times that of a professinal who is tested regularly.
Normal EPO has a half life of like 3-5 days. If you are being tested every month, you will get caught. Eventually. The micro dosing (vague) gets you down to 8-10 hours. Makes it basically impossible to get caught until something screws up.
Of course it isn't like we have tons of peer reviewed literature on this stuff and have a good idea of the variance between people.
But you would need to be naive to think a clean test means much. We have way too many athletes who competed for years before getting busted...
+1
Of course there is some literature... something like 20 - 30 IU/kg Epo are safe when taken at 11 pm, because they are not allowed to test you before 7 am.
Blood transfusion up to 200 - 300 mL are always safe. Worst thing that can happen is you get flagged as suspicious. Won't be enough to ban you for an ABP violation, see Kiptum's CAS report.
As for nandro, see Shelburrito's CAS report. < 2 ng/mL are ok. Quick estimate: maybe half of a regular 50 mg pill at 11 pm would be ok, depending on your metabolism. Cf. her values and note she got tested as early as possible, lol.
Testo, well. Practically unlimited if you match its 13C depletion to yours or vice versa, because it's origin can only be shown by a different CIR.
I do wonder if feeling the injustice of it is motivating her. I don't know anything about the situation (besides what is in the news) but she clearly feels like she has suffered an injustice. Believing you are right about something (and getting screwed over) can be a powerful motivator.
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