Which elite runners drink coffee?

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  • Ho Hum
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 8:41am CDT
    re: Bad Wigins
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    Bad Wigins wrote:

    Coffee tastes terrible. You do not need to resort to self-torture to get caffeine. Just drink soda or take a pill.

    Caffeine is a legal PED and a training enhancing drug too, but like most PED's you'll develop a tolerance for it.

    The east Africans use khat instead which is illegal in the west, and in-competition too, but I think their out of competition use gives them a big edge. If you really want to win, move to Ethiopia and take up khat chewing. I'm sure it tastes better than disgusting coffee.

    Coffee is like someone with runny diarrhea crapped in a cup and then you drink it.

    Wow bro so contrarian! You must be smart, because you believe the opposite of what other people believe! Totally tubular, brother.
  • R2D3
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 8:44am CDT
    re: lolzzek
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    This is the greatest troll ever!
  • Bill Boggins
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 8:55am CDT
    re: runner who professes
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    runner who professes wrote:

    Caffeine enhances endurance, as research shows.

    Thank you Runner's World.
  • Randy Oldman
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 9:15am CDT
    re: Bad Wigins
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    Bad Wigins wrote:

    Coffee is like someone with runny diarrhea crapped in a cup and then you drink it.

    In some cases it is

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak
  • Dirty Cowgirl
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 10:17am CDT
    re: Randy Oldman
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    I know for a fact that Ben True is a coffee fiend. At least 3 cups of Vienna Roast a day.
  • Cabaret Voltaire
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 11:50am CDT
    re: noseeum
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    noseeum wrote:most of the Ethiopian runners I have known personally (many, but not yet famous names) have avoided coffee. Maybe if they partook they would run better and become famous?
    Or at least beat the Kenyans who do drink coffee.
  • lolzzek
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 2:26pm CDT
    re: Kipketer_Pumpkin_Eater
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    Kipketer_Pumpkin_Eater wrote:

    And many doctors tell me about stimulants' effect on blood pressure. How are you aware of sleep schedule and anxiety effects but not the blood pressure ones?

    Because there is scant evidence that coffee has negative effects on cardiovascular health, and in fact a decent amount of evidence that coffee boosts cardiovascular health.

    - "In fact, among 27,000 women followed for 15 years in the Iowa Women's Health Study, those who drank one to three cups a day reduced their risk of cardiovascular disease by 24 percent, although this benefit diminished as the quantity of coffee rose."

    - "Caffeine induces a small, temporary rise in blood pressure. But in a study of 155,000 nurses, women who drank coffee with or without caffeine for a decade were no more likely to develop hypertension than noncoffee drinkers. However, a higher risk of hypertension was found from drinking colas. A Johns Hopkins study that followed more than 1,000 men for 33 years found that coffee drinking played little overall role in the development of hypertension."

    - But an analysis of 10 studies of more than 400,000 people found no increase in heart disease among daily coffee drinkers, whether their coffee came with caffeine or not.

    Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E6D6103DF936A3575BC0A96E9C8B63&action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Aw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fcoffee%2Band%2Bheart%2Bhealth%2F

    Other posters have linked to similar analyses of large peer-reviewed medical studies.

    Here's coverage of a very large study published in 2012: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/having-your-coffee-and-enjoying-it-too/?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Aw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Fcoffee%2Band%2Bheart%2Bhealth%2F

    - "Even though coffee can cause a temporary rise in blood pressure, the new study, like those before it, found the risk of heart disease to be lower among otherwise healthy coffee drinkers."
  • elihu
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    6 years ago 06/05/2014 3:29pm CDT
    re: just sayin
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    can you elaborate at all on these finish bottles? I've just been reading about this concept in cycling, where they often contain high amounts of caffeine and also some pretty serious narcotic pain killers. Curious if the same might be in use by runners?
  • Vesna
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    6 years ago 06/05/2014 3:31pm CDT
    re: Aleksandar
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    lajk4e si ;)
  • Aleksandar
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 3:38pm CDT
    re: Vesna
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    Yup :)
  • NCProud
    6 years ago 06/05/2014 7:25pm CDT
    re: noseeum
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    Kenenisa and Tariku Bekele both drink lots of coffee. They will drink coffee before a run and after a run. Coffee is a major part of the Ethiopian culture (to not drink coffee is to not be Ethiopian). Kenenisa's own words were "Mo drinks tea and I drink coffee."
  • Smallcon
    6 years ago 06/06/2014 5:03am CDT
    re: Goat Herder
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    Just don't run hard on your easy days. Caffeine can sometimes mask your real fatigue, and you can run harder than you should so you wont recover as much.
  • illogically
    6 years ago 06/06/2014 10:25am CDT
    re: Smallcon
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    You shouldn't drink coffee. 100% of the people that have drank coffee have died.
  • Alan Bennet
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    6 years ago 06/06/2014 12:23pm CDT
    re: Goat Herder
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    Kipketer_Pumpkin_Eater wrote:
    Finally, I did not say "coffee intervals" in the quoted post. I said intervals OF coffee drinking.
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    That's too subtle for me.

    xenonscreams wrote:
    I'm pretty sure you lose the performance-enhancing effects if you drink coffee every day and build up a tolerance/dependence.
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    What about caffeine confusion?

    At work I went into the convenience store to buy a yogurt. The guy on line ahead of me -- he looked like a data center drone, most definitely not an elite athlete -- bought a 20oz Mountain Dew, 2 Red Bulls, and a 5-Hr Energy. This was at 4pm! After he left I said to the cashier, "Can you believe what he got?" The reply was something like, "That's pretty common, you should see what people buy."