"I always just go out there and run,” he says. “I want to be able to go anywhere and train non-stop, full time without having to worry about when I have to be in an altitude tent or something like that.”
While I don't think Bernard Lagat is taking a shot at Galen Rupp or Salazar, it's clear he wouldn't permit himself to be some bizarre guinea pig project of Salazar's.
I imagine Lagat's family wouldn't be all that thrilled with altitude tents, either.
And this is why everyone loves Berny.
He exemplifies "just run, baby!"
Yeah, Lagat is so "old school" that he abandoned his native country to seek personal glory. The competition to make national distance teams in the U.S. is just a teeny bit softer than in Kenya, no?
lagat doth protest too much, methinks
Ask the hard ones wrote:
Yeah, Lagat is so "old school" that he abandoned his native country to seek personal glory. The competition to make national distance teams in the U.S. is just a teeny bit softer than in Kenya, no?
Or maybe he was sick of living in a third world country.
Well, when you're taking EPO there's no point to an altitude tent. That's like taking a glass of orange juice with your 10 grams of vitamin C.
He spends time training at altitude, why would he need a tent?
Well he went to college here, married an American woman, and lives here, so getting citizenship makes sense. Plus, it's not like he had any problems making Kenya's teams.
Koneko wrote:
Or maybe he was sick of living in a third world country.
Ya think? Imagine that!
EPO Gin wrote:
Well, when you're taking EPO there's no point to an altitude tent. That's like taking a glass of orange juice with your 10 grams of vitamin C.
Oh, wise one, if they are that duplicative, I guess you'd argue that altitude tents should be banned.
No altitude tent, trains in Tubingen Germany (same town where Dieter Baumann lives), not exactly at altitude. You don't need to when there is EPO.
SPMBLNPF wrote:
Oh, wise one, if they are that duplicative, I guess you'd argue that altitude tents should be banned.
I see we have another product of a school system without logic classes. Weight lifting increases testosterone, as does sex, but just because I think dianobol should be banned it doesn't mean that lifting and sex should. Although I'm guessing those bans would have no effect on your life.
WTF does Dieter Baumann have to do with this? Do you think Lagat's going to him for tips on how to get caught using steroids?
Ask the hard ones wrote:
The competition to make national distance teams in the U.S. is just a teeny bit softer than in Kenya, no?
How many times has Lagat been beaten by three former countrymen in international championship competitions?
How one of the big US groups cheats (I'm sure you can guess which one):
1. Get on T3 (thyroid medication).
2. Use altitude tent every night.
3. Get the same effect as using synthetic EPO.
Bernard is old school because he probably uses some form of EPO and skips this new process.
TLW wrote:
How one of the big US groups cheats (I'm sure you can guess which one):
1. Get on T3 (thyroid medication).
2. Use altitude tent every night.
3. Get the same effect as using synthetic EPO.
Bernard is old school because he probably uses some form of EPO and skips this new process.
I agree. Plus it's far more old school to cheat, get caught and deny it, than to find a legal loophole for cheating as you point out.
EPO Gin wrote:
SPMBLNPF wrote:Oh, wise one, if they are that duplicative, I guess you'd argue that altitude tents should be banned.
I see we have another product of a school system without logic classes. Weight lifting increases testosterone, as does sex, but just because I think dianobol should be banned it doesn't mean that lifting and sex should. Although I'm guessing those bans would have no effect on your life.
You're another mental midget. You made the assertion that there was NO NEED for an altitude tent if one were taking EPO. So, I guess there could be need for an altitude tent if one is NOT taking EPO. OK, so the altitude tent gives one similar benefits to EPO, according to you and your orange juice/vitamin C comparison. So it is OK to get these benefits of EPO by using an altitude tent, but to get those same benefits from taking EPO is banned. Now, you're the moron who basically said they amounted to the same thing with your allusion to orange juice and vitamin C. You're the one who is failing at ratiocination here.
SPMBLNPF wrote:
You're another mental midget. You made the assertion that there was NO NEED for an altitude tent if one were taking EPO. So, I guess there could be need for an altitude tent if one is NOT taking EPO. OK, so the altitude tent gives one similar benefits to EPO, according to you and your orange juice/vitamin C comparison. So it is OK to get these benefits of EPO by using an altitude tent, but to get those same benefits from taking EPO is banned. Now, you're the moron who basically said they amounted to the same thing with your allusion to orange juice and vitamin C. You're the one who is failing at ratiocination here.
So what are you arguing? That EPO does not make altitude tents redundant or - if you agree that it does - you must be arguing that altitude tents should be illegal. Either way, you've just dug yourself a hole you cannot get out of. I suggest change your login and post on a name you haven't advertised as completely nonsensical.
EPO Gin wrote:
SPMBLNPF wrote:You're another mental midget. You made the assertion that there was NO NEED for an altitude tent if one were taking EPO. So, I guess there could be need for an altitude tent if one is NOT taking EPO. OK, so the altitude tent gives one similar benefits to EPO, according to you and your orange juice/vitamin C comparison. So it is OK to get these benefits of EPO by using an altitude tent, but to get those same benefits from taking EPO is banned. Now, you're the moron who basically said they amounted to the same thing with your allusion to orange juice and vitamin C. You're the one who is failing at ratiocination here.
So what are you arguing? That EPO does not make altitude tents redundant or - if you agree that it does - you must be arguing that altitude tents should be illegal. Either way, you've just dug yourself a hole you cannot get out of. I suggest change your login and post on a name you haven't advertised as completely nonsensical.
I have dug no hole, moron. I have pointed out how you CANNOT think logically. I have done to you what Kenenisa will do to Rupp tomorrow, destroy him in a colossal mismatch. You have stated that taking EPO is to using altitude tents what taking vitamin C is to drinking orange juice. The conclusion which flows from this is inexorable to all but the moronic, which by definition means that it eludes you.