While I think the beer mile craze has come and gone, it might be interesting one year if a AWMM handed all of the runners 30 minutes before the start 2 beers and said, "Drink these now."
I'd hope 3 hours would have no impact on them.
“We sang and ate and laughed and ate until late in the evening.â€
I had a couple short beers finishing up Shamrock a couple weeks ago. Yummy.
Only two? And someone said 1950s was a good time to live in.
I had a beer at mile 4 of Shamrock one year. Still my PR
These guys were low octane. Belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, morphine, cocaine, ether, strychnine (a pesticide used to kill birds and rodents), were all pretty regular.
(In 1879)
French racers preferred mixtures on a caffeine bases, the Belgians preferred sugar cubes dipped in ether, and others used alcohol-containing cordials, while the sprinters specialized in the use of nitroglycerine (Prokop, 1970: 45).
The cyclists of the day also used coffee 'spiked' with caffeine; and as the race progressed, they would add increasing doses of cocaine and strychnine (Donohoe & Johnson, 1986), as strychnine taken at low doses has a stimulant effect, while at higher doses it is poisonous....
The first fatality attributed to doping was reported in 1886: Arthur Linton, an English cyclist, is said by some to have overdosed on 'tri-methyl', probably a compound containing either caffeine or ether...
Another popular sport during that period in both the United States and England was the professional sport of pedestrianism. ... By their very nature, stimulants lent themselves to use in this sport. Trainers employed a variety of concoctions to keep their athlete going. These included milk-punch champagne and brandy, as well as belladonna, strychnine, and 'morphine in hot drops' (Osier & Dodd, 1979: 107).
rojo wrote:
http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1036172/mike-rowbottom-its-120-years-since-the-modern-olympics-began-and-since-edwin-flack-who-had-never-run-more-than-10-miles-nearly-won-the-marathon
While I think the beer mile craze has come and gone, it might be interesting one year if a AWMM handed all of the runners 30 minutes before the start 2 beers and said, "Drink these now."
I'd hope 3 hours would have no impact on them.
Clerk wrote:
These guys were low octane. Belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, morphine, cocaine, ether, strychnine (a pesticide used to kill birds and rodents), were all pretty regular.
(In 1879)
French racers preferred mixtures on a caffeine bases, the Belgians preferred sugar cubes dipped in ether, and others used alcohol-containing cordials, while the sprinters specialized in the use of nitroglycerine (Prokop, 1970: 45).
The cyclists of the day also used coffee 'spiked' with caffeine; and as the race progressed, they would add increasing doses of cocaine and strychnine (Donohoe & Johnson, 1986), as strychnine taken at low doses has a stimulant effect, while at higher doses it is poisonous....
The first fatality attributed to doping was reported in 1886: Arthur Linton, an English cyclist, is said by some to have overdosed on 'tri-methyl', probably a compound containing either caffeine or ether...
Another popular sport during that period in both the United States and England was the professional sport of pedestrianism. ... By their very nature, stimulants lent themselves to use in this sport. Trainers employed a variety of concoctions to keep their athlete going. These included milk-punch champagne and brandy, as well as belladonna, strychnine, and 'morphine in hot drops' (Osier & Dodd, 1979: 107).
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/ISS/ISS2401/ISS2401e.pdf
Ran my 5k road pr 15:30ish on a July forth 5k honest course after 2-3 beers and dinner... About 3 hours before
holy f*ck 2:11 800 and 4:33 1500?!?! Where can I find a time machine
what did they not know wrote:
holy f*ck 2:11 800 and 4:33 1500?!?! Where can I find a time machine