PiesDeFuego wrote:
I completely and fully support Sage in this, and think it’s terrible to openly admit to taking PEDs.
However, Sage, you aren’t helping your case when you start dragging hunting into it. You are an expert in running, but not in hunting and conservation. You’re entitled to your opinion, but when Cam and his followers read what you say about bear hunting, they interpret it as you being uninformed and unknowledgeable, and they then extrapolate this to anything else you say.
Focus on the running where you have a winning argument.
You're right. That's not relevant to the case in the logical se. It's not so much "the hunting" (I'm friends with a lot of deer/elk hunters and realize at lease some conservational aspects). It's more if one was into "trophy hunting" aspects (think like Big Game hunters in Africa) where posing with a bloody head as a kind of "earned trophy" may display certain personality characteristics and optics that bleed over (pun intended) into a certain brand and identity/fascade. Much like "it's all honest hard work and it's all mental!! [then takes PEDs for gains]."
But I'm done with that. More relevant here is not just Cam (or his age even). It's the fact that a 2:30s marathoner with brand and shoe company deals is certainly not "just a hobby jogger" and that that kind of fitness and relative speed actually is "quite competitive" in a long ultra like Cocodona 250 imo.
Also relevant is Aravaipa's "anti-doping policy" saying how they've partnered with USADA and uphold WADA/USADA code for all runners in all their races:
Still Cam was allowed to center Cocodona (and was promoted by the media even more!) and may very likely have even better "lottery odds" to gain entry for next year...


