Throughout different threads, a good (or bad?) portion of posters on letsrun are admitting to some form of drug usage (prescription or otherwise) and it's weird to realize that so many runners are under the actual influence of something harder than caffeine while some of us literally may be only under the influence of some red bull or even nothing when we do our workout.
It's been hash, adderall, references to past cocaine usage, references to past usage of psychedelic drugs, references to past or current psychotropic drugs, habitual marijuana, etc.
It's easy to say shut up and mind your business but...absolutely...NO.
I’m prescribed adderall. I smoke weed. I’ve tried cocaine, acid and shroom in college a few times. I also took prescription pain killers and watched a movie once with some friends in college too. The horror! Are you glad I addressed this? Now please go continue being a nerd and mind your own business. I’ll try just about everything once. If that kills me then so be it
I’ve tried a lot of things too. Pain killers, adderall, weed, and benzos. The first time I tried cocaine was with an Olympic Gold medalist (not a runner).
I would never shoot any drugs and I have no desire to do LSD or shrooms.
In my 40s now, and really don’t do anything other than my THC prescription. I don’t even drink anymore.
I think it’s surprising how many people in general try certain drugs, and runners are just a subset of the population.
Throughout different threads, a good (or bad?) portion of posters on letsrun are admitting to some form of drug usage (prescription or otherwise) and it's weird to realize that so many runners are under the actual influence of something harder than caffeine while some of us literally may be only under the influence of some red bull or even nothing when we do our workout.
so, what's with runners and drugs?
It pretty common that most people are curious and will try drugs sometime in their life. I don't see a problem with this. Its not like smoking weed one time or taking shrooms once is gong to kill you or makes you some kind of degenerate lol
Drug use and abuse is a societal issue, a human issue, not just a "Letsrunners" issue. There is no socioeconomic group, group of athletes, or any other group that doesn't have this problem endemically. The reason "so many letsrunners use some drugs" is because a certain percentage of ever human group does, and runners are no different. And by the way, alcohol is drug too, so don't think you or your friends that use it are any different, either.
I ran 1:56 for 800m on about 50ug of LSD. I often joke that I hold the world record in the Acid Half Mile.
Seriously? What was that like?
Fun. I had, like, zero pre-race nerves. 1:56 was about on par with my SB at the time, so I don't think it really aided or hindered performance. But I had a smile on my face the whole time.