Spanish hobby jogger gets popped for diuretic after finishing 29th out of 61. Do you think she was looking to get an edge?

I sure hope not. Taking performance enhancing drugs to run a 1:21 half marathon would be really quite sad.

As I get faster and start to aim for top 3 in bigger races, I wonder about stuff like this. I almost never take any medications, but i take supplements and protein powders from sellers online and manufacturers that arent exactly household names, and I'm not paying much attention to the labels.

If you make it onto the Web in a context like this, you'll always have a shroud of suspicion around your name.

Shame. Shame. Shame.

I think she was trying to get an edge. I think doping is way, way more common amongst recreational runners than you think. I think probably half of age groupers are doping. Some to make Boston times, others because they conflate fast times with health, and still others for other reasons (they can't get it up in bed/whatever, resulting in TRT use). It'd be super interesting to test the middle of the pack at a big race like CIM or Valencia. But tests cost too much so it'll never happen. There was a 70 year old age groupers who tested positive last year. He was basically on the entire pharmacy.

leave this girl alone, mudraker

I don't. Hobby joggers don't expect to get tested. If they wanted to dope, they would just take the PEDs, not masking agents. Using masking agents to mask other drugs would take more sophistication than needed for a hobby jogger intentional cheat. And why take a masking agent to cheat when you are going to get caught for the masking agent anyway unless you are a super sophisticated, high level cheat.

Hey! I'm offended by the headline JK. But yes she was trying to get an edge because people don't wait to turn pro to get an edge. They will cheat any way or how taking chances of getting away with it. Like cutting courses in amateur races. Especially when they're defended for cheating.

I'm sure it was just prescribed for a condition she had. I use inhalers and my doctor told me that I'd probably fail a test. It certainly doesn't make me any faster.

This is your regular reminder that Chat GTP is a large language model, which means it "answers" questions by reviewing related sources that is has scraped in bulk and building chains of words and sentences in similar arrangements to what it has seen before. It is useful for writing "believable" paragraphs about known subjects, but is terrible for use cases like this. Absolutely do not trust it for medical advice.

Why don’t you try and use some other transitive verb at some point? Shame. A post from you is almost guaranteed to have any of these words: Shame, poors, cubicle, or some other gibberish. Read some books and expand your vocabulary.

To the earlier poster stating that Lasix is a PED, it’s not. It is, though, used to mask the use of some PEDs.

I would tend to opine that her use of Lasix was due to a medical condition due to her not competing at a high level.

Rojo's never seen a white woman doping he didn't like.

I doping hobby jogger wouldn't bother with a masking agent.

I think it was reasonable that she was tested, and I have not seen any reason to doubt the validity of the positive test result.

Like everyone else here, I don't know whether she was doping intentionally and I don't think it matter.

I also don't know why Rojo grossly downplayed the face that she got 3rd place and finished on the podium. Why would he put 29th place in the heading when she was 3rd female?

Rojo, how about we try that for the 2024 Chicago marathon and the person that got 11th place. No, reason to test Ruth Chepnegitch and her world record because she want even top 10.

I don't like it but doping exists and it is reasonable to test top three finishers in races.

I thought hobby joggers just cut courses to cheat. Maybe they have someone else run with their bib.

Exactly this. Many women take diuretics around their menstrual cycles.

I would love it if a major marathon announced the day before a race 'we're going to randomly test anyone finishing in the top 500' or something like that. Would be incredible to see the drop out rate among non-elites.

That's just what right-wingers like rojo call free speech.

Really curious if we tested the “top amateurs” how many would fail tests. Obviously there are some people cheating but I wonder if there would be a lot more failed tests from people not trying to cheat the system.

I’m always skeptical with the “tainted supplements/tainted meat” excuse but maybe it’s sort of easy to accidentally fail a test?