Let me defend my homeboy - Galen Rupp. He's not a wimp for dropping out and yes asthma impacts you in the cold

What??? wrote:

Bullet_Proof wrote:

You mad, bro?

Was Rupp a coward for avoiding media? Yes or no? Yes is the correct answer/

I fail to see how a 3 minute conversation where he would explain the obvious would somehow change your label of him?

Something tells me that even if he had a quick interview, you still would have called him a coward for dropping out.

Rupp is like American foreign policy: darned if you do, darned if you dont.

It seems like youre mad too. Which is awesome because Rupp can do what he wants like a real man while you will try to explain why he is a coward. Keep tryin bud.

Short People wrote:

[quote]rojo wrote:

Guesss what? Two relatively stocky people - Kawauchi and Linden have way stockier legs than most elites - got the win.

I think it worked well for Desi because she is SHORT. The wind did not affect her as much.

Short people are more affected by the wind.

Rupp certified or not... wrote:

Rupp is a wimp. He should have trained in upstate NY for the last several weeks to get acclimated to the cold.

Maybe he was expecting it to be warmer and so he toughed it out doing hyperthermic running insted of hypothermic?

If they had music stages at every k, playing Wang Chung's Dance Hall Days at 180db, it would motivate everyone to finish, and finish strong. We wouldn't see all the DNFs.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Athsma smashamtaha wrote:

Running and asthma = I will periodically take medication that improves my performance and wrap it up as asthma medication.

Cheat.

Dirty cheat.

DNF dirty weak cheat.

Isn't Chris Froome is trouble at the moment for doping up on asthma meds?

Yes, and this thread has confirmed my suspicion that a lot of runners have "asthma". I say this in any asthma thread, but there is no such thing as using asthma meds to get back to "normal".

There is no normal, and if competing in running causes you these symptoms, then you should find another sport.

Instead these runners with "terrible asthma" will excessively puff away on their inhalers, and over time will reap the PED benefit of the drug.

Now that I have said this, watch the links to all the b.s. studies that try to claim it isn't a PED. Well dig deeper and you will find the one's not sponsored by big pharma do indicate an obvious PED effect.

If you have a hard time walking up stairs you might need an inhaler, but you don't need one one when your "symptoms" arise during hard running.

But man have I seen guys massively improve once they got their "asthma" under control, with their breathing back to "normal".

DING DING DING!! x1000

unbelievable how naive or willfully self-delusional people are about this "epidemic" of "asthma" at the very highest levels of sport. GTFO Rupp and Froome, or at least make up a better lie.

So do us all a favor, take the maximum allowable puffs of Ventolin (there is a legal limit you know, even if you have a TUE) and tell us if your marathon time improves. I'm willing to bet not.

Do you even realize that many treatments for asthma are not even ventolin, they are anti-inflammatories, or lukotriene inhibitors? None of which are remotely related to the anabolic pathway. Do you even know which meds Rupp is taking?

Do your research ya freaking moron.

btw - on average nine people die from asthma. Every. Single. Day. That's just in the USA. Maybe if Rupp died from an attack you'd finally take him seriously.

Complete rubbish and taken out of context. Inhaled Albuterol has never been proven to have an anabolic effect,

only oral/injected can (possibly, depending on dose/duration) have an affect. You would know if Rupp is doing oral/injected Albuterol long term, just look at what happened to skinny Jerry Lewis after he was on oral steroids, bloated to the moon, once he kicked it he got back to his skinny.

Duh no kidding Einstein, they couldn't breath properly before. As that other poster said, take a couple of puffs of Ventolin/Albuterol and tell us what happened? Did you get big muscles? Did you set a marathon PB?