How Does it Feel to be Lagat?

After EL G, Lagat is probably the most talented middle distance runner ever.

joho wrote:

Nice post. Has there been a PED developed that makes you faster on easier training? Seems like most of the PEDs I hear about allows people to recover quicker from hard training. If you take the PED but don't train harder then you are not going to get faster.

Well, EPO and just straight blood doping will make you faster regardless of how much you train, but if you're going to risk doping you may as well try to maximize the benefit. I don't know why someone would go through the expense and risk of doping and then not train very hard. You're doing it to get an advantage, after all.

Renato once posted that the people he finds suspicious do little to no aerobic maintenance work. Dopers can just do intervals 5 days a week and not have to worry about losing aerobic fitness.

King Kong 1933 wrote:

After EL G, Lagat is probably the most doped middle distance runner ever.

What you meant to say...

Dan Quinn wrote:

http://www.flotrack.org/video/499671-Bernard-Lagat-Race-Day-Routine-in-Paris

Just watch him do a shake-out and drills at about the 5:00 mark. So incredibly light on his feet. Only a handful of people in the world could ever look that graceful.

Sorry mate thats simple not true. I know so many who do drills perfectly. They look as relaxed and light on their feet as lagat. Thats nothing to be impressed about. Its all about coordination. I see people as graceful as that every time I train on the track. Dont let those big names impress you too much.

I would also think that the A and B samples are frozen at the same time, and the protocol is very regimented, taking the same amount of time both times (i.e. the A and B samples spend the same amount of time at room temp). I don't really understand how an enzyme present in both samples would give a different A vs B result in this case.

Freelove wrote:

joho wrote:

Nice post. Has there been a PED developed that makes you faster on easier training? Seems like most of the PEDs I hear about allows people to recover quicker from hard training. If you take the PED but don't train harder then you are not going to get faster.

Well, EPO and just straight blood doping will make you faster regardless of how much you train, but if you're going to risk doping you may as well try to maximize the benefit. I don't know why someone would go through the expense and risk of doping and then not train very hard. You're doing it to get an advantage, after all.

Renato once posted that the people he finds suspicious do little to no aerobic maintenance work. Dopers can just do intervals 5 days a week and not have to worry about losing aerobic fitness.

You can very well do intervals 5 days a week and not worry about losing aerobic fitness, just make em threshold intervals.

What Renato meant is without an aerobic base it's impossible to recover quickly enough to do intervals 5 days a week-- unless you are using drugs.

Without drugs or a big base, hard workouts quickly lead to overtraining, or injury.

Drugs can lead to injury as well, but they do let you work harder and recover more quickly.

He feels fresh. Some knives are kept sharp by cutting only when necessary, vs. the LRC mantra of constantly grinding high mileage to sharpen speed.

oh well yea wrote:

the B sample was mishandled, the A sample was positive.

False. Both samples were kept in a hot car, windows closed, without being put on ice.

Go back and read the report before you type more lies.

Speculation and questions of doping aside, I have to say there is a lot of hate on these boards. I suspect Xenophobia and racism as the culprits here. This does not explain the hatred of Rupp I often see, I guess some folks just don't like Rupp's personality, or his coach.

Hell, I don't know if I'd like Keith Richards personally, but I sure like his music.

for what it's worth, he's hot!!

LONG.......THICK........&DARK!