"Performance enhancing" drug
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"Performance enhancing" drug
The latest "performance enhancing" drug.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/sp...viagra.html?hp
"The study indicated that some participants taking Viagra improved their performances by nearly 40 percent in 10-kilometer cycling time trials conducted at a simulated altitude of 12,700 feet — a height far above general elite athletic competition"
Just the thing to get over Loveland pass on Triple Bypass.
With some seriousness, this may even be real and a reasonable thing for a 54 year flatlander to do when tackling a ride at an altitude like that...
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/sp...viagra.html?hp
"The study indicated that some participants taking Viagra improved their performances by nearly 40 percent in 10-kilometer cycling time trials conducted at a simulated altitude of 12,700 feet — a height far above general elite athletic competition"
Just the thing to get over Loveland pass on Triple Bypass.
With some seriousness, this may even be real and a reasonable thing for a 54 year flatlander to do when tackling a ride at an altitude like that...
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.....10-kilometer cycling time trials conducted at a simulated altitude of 12,700 feet — a height far above general elite athletic competition"
With some seriousness, this may even be real and a reasonable thing for a 54 year flatlander to do when tackling a ride at an altitude like that...
With some seriousness, this may even be real and a reasonable thing for a 54 year flatlander to do when tackling a ride at an altitude like that...
With some seriousness - altitude kills me.
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Got it up 14,130 feet.
Had to be the waffles.
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I don't think taking Viagra would be worth the increased heart attack risk. Besides, I probably couldn't pedal as well with a woody as without.
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Yeah! Drug up man. The answer is always in a pill. One of many 'silver bullets' for whatever ails you or gives you what you want.
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At what elevation did you start, on the day you climbed Mt. Evans? Was it 400 feet? Your post doesn't make that part quite clear. Regardless, though, that was a great climb!
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MY question is what kind of shorts/bibs would do the best job of concealing the side effect of this performance enhancer?
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The group I was with started at Echo Lake, 10,600 ASL. I'd like to do the climb again starting from Idaho Springs, 7,524 ASL. Maybe during the 50+ weekend some of us could drive over and do it?
I think this is the most important question.
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It depends on the weather of course. I rode by the turn to the Evans road on the Triple ByPass ride. It was about 8am and 34F when we flew by coming off of Juniper Pass. I was so cold on the long descent to Idaho Springs. I don't mind climbing in the cold but coming back down is difficult.
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Well why would you be surprised. After all pedaling with three legs will make you go faster.
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It depends on the weather of course. I rode by the turn to the Evans road on the Triple ByPass ride. It was about 8am and 34F when we flew by coming off of Juniper Pass. I was so cold on the long descent to Idaho Springs. I don't mind climbing in the cold but coming back down is difficult.
One of the guys I rode with that day, ADDED Mt Evans to his Triple-Bypass ride this year. Of course, at 48, he has youth on his side.
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This preformance enhancing drug you speak of is being used in some of the local skilled nursing facilities to reduce the incidences of hip fractures in elderly men. It is given prior to sleep and it is reported it keeps these little old men from rollong out of the bed. Lp
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Now if you really want to impress us, start from where I did, a suburb of Denver. I tried it twice last summer. It took me 120 miles and 10,000' of climbing just to get to Echo Lake, at which point I was just too wasted and it was too late in the day to try for the summit. The last time I was up there I met two guys from Boulder who had started from Bergen Park. They were planning to try for a Boulder -> Mt Evans ride in August.
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Now if you really want to impress us, start from where I did, a suburb of Denver. I tried it twice last summer. It took me 120 miles and 10,000' of climbing just to get to Echo Lake, at which point I was just too wasted and it was too late in the day to try for the summit. The last time I was up there I met two guys from Boulder who had started from Bergen Park. They were planning to try for a Boulder -> Mt Evans ride in August.
If I can do it
- living and training at 400 feet,
- only 19 months after dropping a 35-year smoking habit, and
- with only 1½ lungs,
Frankly I was amazed at how easy the climb was. Sure it was work, but I never left Zone 4 on my HRM. I spike into Zone 5 at home with alarming regularity.
All too often I see people not even trying to do things because they assume that because of age, disease or injury that they can't. To that I say, hogwash!
I used to be that kind of person, assuming I couldn't do things, so I never tried. I changed, learning to try anyway. And guess what? I did it, so can you!
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Tsl's story is fantastic. It makes me feel like I might have the audacity of hope in my cycling exploits.
I don't use those medications but if I ever have I have gotten migainoid headaches from them, a heck of a trade-off for the intended effect. I wouldn't enjoy a bike ride nursing that kind of headache.
I don't use those medications but if I ever have I have gotten migainoid headaches from them, a heck of a trade-off for the intended effect. I wouldn't enjoy a bike ride nursing that kind of headache.
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Would the test for the use of this drug actually be all that complicated?
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Not to divert the thread or anything, but...
we need to have a poll: which race has the hottest podium girls, TdF or the Vuelta d'Espana or whatever it's called?
we need to have a poll: which race has the hottest podium girls, TdF or the Vuelta d'Espana or whatever it's called?