Sage Canaday Reports Cam Hanes to USADA After 58-Year-Old’s 2:39 Eugene Marathon

The 3-4 million number is the number of people who use PEDs "without medical supervision," which excludes anti-aging clinics, etc. Estimates on the number of people on TRT vary, but the latest estimates are around 12 million prescriptions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/magazine/what-to-know-testosterone-masculinity.html

And it's about the same for women and estrogen (11 million, though the bell curve for women has more people over 40 taking it, which begs the question, do dudes in their twenties really need TRT?):

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Menopause hormone therapy is popular, so why the 'mad scramble' to fill prescriptions?

With the removal of the black-box warning on hormone therapy for menopause, some providers and patients report shortages or delays, waiting for a pharmacy to restock transdermal estrogen patches.

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So there's 23 million people taking hormone therapy in the US right there.

With peptides, we don't really have numbers on the grey market stuff that Cam uses. But we have numbers on GLP-1s. 12% of all Americans have been prescribed GLP-1s for weight loss purposes:

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Nearly 12 Percent of Americans Have Used GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs; Medications Are Most Used by Women Aged 50 to 64

Nearly 12 percent of Americans have used GLP-1 drugs for weight loss, including about one-fifth of women aged 50 to 64.

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And that doesn't count EPO, which has another 1.1 million prescriptions written in the US (many of which are legitimate for treating kidney disease but some of which probably supply the black market):

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/press-release/global-erythropoietin-epo-drugs-market

Or anabolic steroids, which have another 3-4 million users in the US:

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Anabolic Steroids

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Anabolic steroids have legitimate medical uses, but misuse of these drugs is common.

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So that's 23 million on hormone replacement therapy, 40 million on GLP-1 peptides, 3 million getting peptides from online pharmacies, another 1 million on EPO, and another 4 million using anabolic steroids. So that's 71 million Americans on some sort of performance enhancing drug, or about 20% of the population.

Granted not all of these people are athletes using the drugs to run faster. Some people just want to lose excess weight or have less fatigue. Their exercise might consist of walking or riding their bike around the block. But there are surely a lot of runners within that subsample of people taking these drugs.

Granted there's some overlap here where people who take EPO for performance enhancing reasons also take peptides and anabolic steroids. Still, it shows just how widespread and how big of a problem this is.

Smart call on all of you for saving screenshots.

I think Estrogen is fine but what was her time previously? If she went from 2:55 or 3:00 to 2:50 that wouldn't be out of the norm. But if she was a 4 hour runner and then went 2:50--?

The coach in question is @runningcoachmegan on instagram.

Cam has tapped into a market of insecure boys and men who feel compelled to display their “masculinity” online for social approval, just like insecure women who post booty pics, it’s all just a competition for attention. The bow hunting crap fits right in with this, and it’s all part of a bigger conversation about lost identity and social approval. Unfortunately we now live in a time where people spend more time cultivating their “online brand” than living in reality, and once they get enough “followers” they become marketing tools for ACTUAL brands like Aravaipa… it’s a fvcked up new world and it’s not going anywhere so you’re best off ignoring it. Fighting against doping is a worthy cause however, and based on all the evidence Cam has left online about his practices it would appear he is gonna get popped.

The 2026 Black Canyon was a Golden Ticket race and a World Trail Majors race.

Sage placed 7th overall and 1st overall masters.

Sage is currently #2 on the wait list for a Golden Ticket.

According to Aravaipa policy this was a drug tested event yet Sage REFUSES to answer if he was drug tested at this race.

Sage REFUSES to answer why his name is not listed in the USADA athlete test history database which goes back to 2016.

For someone who is screaming for clean sport, he should be the one leading the charge by getting tested.

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Eugene Marathon to host the USATF Oregon Championships for the second straight year — Eugene Marathon

Courtney Heily

Eugene Marathon and the USATF Oregon Association are proud to announce the 2026 Eugene Marathon and Half Marathon races will be the official USATF Oregon championship races in 2026. This is the second year that the Eugene Mar...

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USATF Oregon championship awards will be presented to the top three
female finishers and top three male finishers who are USATF members.
Participants must be members from any USATF Association to be eligible

The USATF Oregon awards will be in addition to Eugene Marathon’s top three overall and age group awards.

Cam did not win a USATF Oregon championship award.

Cam is not a member of USATF.

Cam did win a Eugene Marathon age group award.

The sole responsibility of drug testing Cam at the race falls on the Eugene Marathon.

If you want clean sport, call out the Eugene Marathon.

Kudos to Sage for calling out this clown. This person is making a living off his athletic performance and brand-promotion. This isn't some 4-hour mid-packer on supplements for health. His marathon time age grades at 91.5%. That's world class. He's an elite age-group athlete that is driving event promotion and is sponsored by some of the biggest names in sport. And his performances are not legitimate. For those of us that work our @ss*s off to run similar times the old fashioned way, we need to stand up against these jerks.

And it's absolutely correct to put pressure on Jamil Coury for embracing this guy at Cocodona. If you want to bro out with the dopers, then it's your brand on the line, too.

Here is the Boston Marathon anti-doping policy, it is not listed under the pro-athletes section, it is listed under the general participants section:

It's a twenty second Google search to find that at this link:

https://www.baa.org/wp-content/uploads/docs/2021-08/Boston_Marathon_Rules_and_Policies_08_2021.pdf

Additionally many races have anti-doping policies which they show when you sign up for the race and have waivers. If you don't read them, it's on you, not the race.

Finally, ignorance of the rules is not a defense. If it was, Ruth Chepngetich could claim, "I didn't know that you couldn't take performance enhancing drugs and text about it," and still be running marathons.

Somebody who wins the entire Masters race at the Eugene Marathon, as Cam did, absolutely should be tested. It was winning that race, and running that time at his age, that initially caused him to go viral (which brings him attention and dollars from sponsors). As Cam himself said, "Nobody would've cared if I ran 3:05." But without performance enhancing drugs, that's probably what he would've run. And that just isn't as marketable as the "the amazing and unbelievable feat" of running 2:39 at 58.

Why did the Eugene Marathon fail to test Cam, an age group winner, at the race?

The Eugene Marathon should absolutely be called out for their failure to test.

Sage is the kind of kid that reminded the teacher there was homework.

No one takes Hanes's running seriously. Obviously, all the BPN guys (Hopkins included) are on gear. Who cares? If a 55+ age group medal bothers you that bad I will personally buy you one of of Amazon. He, like 99.99% of all runners, is not in the testing pool. He won't get tested, he won't get banned, because no one cares. The juice could not be less worth the squeeze.

As far as media promotion goes, there are worse people than Cam Hanes being lauded as icons of the sport. Sure, Hanes is just some mouth breathing moron with hordes of followers, but he isn't much different than any other non-pro-bro out there.

Take your ball and go home. This act reeks of jealousy and attention. Your time, if you had any, is long gone. Get over it

I have run USATF Club XC about a dozen times in the last 15 years and made an age group podium in about half of those (although I haven't won my age group yet). Counting men and women there are over 20 masters age groups. In my experience USADA usually tests about 2-3 people, usually picking one random podium finisher, and one or two age group winners, who have run the fastest age-graded times. That seems to be the amount of resources that USATF/USADA want to allocate towards policing masters racing.

Hanes, his followers, and his various sponsors take his running very seriously. You can choose not to but the fact remains he’s one of the best in the world at his age group.

I'll answer you: No I was not tested. I wish they had more testing! I would have been 100% clean at Black Canyon and Javelina (and any race I've ever done) though. You keep coming on here trying to somehow "discredit" me (with my past results etc) but it's not logical or relevant to this case really at all. Like are you trying to make some kind of point here (what is it)?

I'm honestly not even sure if they tested the Golden Ticket winners at any of these races (I've been advocating for more testing in general in sport and ranting about how "dirty" ultra-trail running is for the last 10 years. UTMB, Western States etc. Only a very small handful of runners have been caught in ultra-trail (and we know a lot more are doping....at all levels).

In my whole career I was only officially drug tested once by USADA. It was on top of Pikes Peak actually when I won the World Mountain Champs there in 2014 for Team USA. They had some "fake testing" with the Quartz program in Golden Trail World Series (where I made the world finals in 2017-2018)...I called them out on it too because it was the same kind of BS testing they were trying to run at UTMB in Chamonix back then also (at least pre-race "athlete monitoring" as they called it). One guy did pop an EPO positive at UTMB though on a Finish line test I believe (2015), "5th place".
Trail-Ultra is for sure the "wild west" still with a general lack of testing and funds etc. But the thing is guys like Cam don't even need to be tested. We already know he has used PEDs because he admitted to it! So at this point maybe race policy could just be enforced better?

I commented with Des Linden and Kara Goucher a bit on this on Des's Instagram post the other day (lack of funds for testing and enforcement, no surprise testing or whereabouts database system, no official (unified at least) governing body in ultra-trail etc). It's a big uphill battle...
But if a lot of ultra-trail races (and all those under Aravaipa) are under USADA/WADA code then those are the rules and regulations of the race...for all the runners...and you're simply cheating if you're not following them...

No one, and I truly mean no one, cares about irrelevant age-groupers in B/C-list marathons.

If you buy BPN stuff, you know the guys hocking it are on gear- you can chose whether or not to give them your money (doping ethics aside, the go-gels are actually good)

USADA and the AIU don't have the resources to respond to the doping epidemic in our country for our Olympians and collegians. Why would they waste their time with Hanes?

My issue isn't with Sage calling out doping; my issue is with the target. There are much, much bigger fish to fry

The guy has a shoe sponsor, nearly 2 millions Instagram followers, and a YouTube channel with 579,000 subscribers but, ok, keep making this ridiculous argument. I’m sure when Cole Hocker went on his channel it was because Hanes is so irrelevant.

This poster is correct. Cam doping is pretty much a non-issue. I agree with Sage’s post that it isn’t fair to the other masters runners, but asking USADA or AIU to expand their already strained testing resources is unrealistic and too costly. It’s not practical. It is without doubt the case that way more of these guys dope than Cam; he is just someone who brazenly admits it because he knows that consequences are unlikely. The reality is that the sport is moving to a PED tolerated sport where doping is fully accepted and creates an even level playing field. I am ashamed as a fan to admit it, but that is how people are nowadays. Most people have zero integrity and spending millions on an un-winnable battle is pointless.

His stating that there are bigger fish to fry was not an attempt to say that Hanes is irrelevant. You misunderstood him.

I'll answer you: No I was not tested.<-- That's the whole point Sage.

How are we supposed to have clean sport when testing is very minimal to none?

If Aravaipa did NOT do any drug testing at Black Canyon they absolutely should be called out for it.

Sham Hanes has jumped into the boat and admitted to doping. Sure there's bigger fish to fry but the sport should also fry this one.