last year a journalist for "Outside" magazine did a piece where he was training for PBP with the intention of purposely going on as many steroids as possible. He basically went to a steriod doctor and said "give me all you've got". there's no rule stipulating against drug use in the randonneuring governing body so it was all legit according to them. although ironically he is probably the first randonneur in the history of the sport to take EPO; most of them just eat snickers bars and drink chocolate milk and coffee.

anyway, it's an interesting piece because you never really hear the real story from the althletes who take this stuff.

any who cares if some of them are doping, they can take it and then go off it and do great, look at Ricahrd Virenque (sp?).