I am dropping out of school and giving up racing, so i am selling my bike stuff. Make me an offer, and if it is good enough i may not even be joking. On that note, i practiced for time off the bike by taking a day off the bike today. after school i headed over to work and worked for about 3 hours. On the way back to mi casa, yo visito mi jefe Jamie or "the other Chris Carmichael" of course i don't really mean Chris Carmichael because he does not inject me with chemicals on a daily basis and does not cost me 500 dolars a month. Sorry, i didn't mean to say that. I am not trying to imply that a very famous cyclist is injected with chemicals on a daily basis. He also does not pay 500 dollars a month for coaching.
in fact he gets free coaching and takes his chemicals in pill form. Sorry, i didn't mean to say that either, it just slipped. I actually do no think that Lance Armstrong is illegally doped, the stuff he is taking is not on the banned substance list yet and probably won't be until next year, at which time he will be on something else that is also not on the list. oh wait, he is retired. I am probably going to generate a lot of heat for this but what the hell, i live in New Mexico and can handle the bitching. Am i saying that Lance Armstrong cheated, absolutely not, in fact i am almost certain he did not, he simply used a substance that would not have been acheived through diet or acheived in the same quantities. Just like you and me. What am i talking about? Well, do you use AccelGel? Would you get the perfectly concentrated blend of 4:1 carbs and protein if you ate a normal meal in the middle of a race? maybe, would it help your perforance? No, it in fact would slow you down. AccelGel uses science to make you faster. Does that make you a doper?
This is all just food for thought. hell, i am just rambling and maybe am making no sense at all. maybe i don't even agree with what i just said. i don't know. I am tired and and need some sleep. i got to get my IV bag ready.
All of this is by no means serious, just something to think about. Just to clarify, i don't have an IV bag. if i was doped would i be racing in New Mexico?
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I couldn't agree with you more. What's the difference in taking drugs or downing obscene amounts of vitamins post ride to aid in recovery? Sure, one can help boost performance right now, but the other helps boost it too, just takes a bit longer for the ride/recover cycle to do it's thing. And I've yet to find a natural source of 1000 mg of vitamin C.
On another note, I thought all the original research on the 4:1 blend was done measuring it as a recovery blend, not for use while exercising...? I guess it could be beneficial during endurance/ultra-endurance events (4+ hours), or maybe as a quick jump start on recovery before you even stop riding, but as a during exercise fuel, protein is supposed to be harder to brake down than carbs.
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