Doping

"I want what he's having... "

Bit of jazz and a few cigars should do it....

Lost me at jazz.

Ah - makes sense

I was thinking more Cippo but whatever floats your boat.

More of a Rolf fan?

He can wobble my board any time.

Got the Spirit of Jazz inside him...

Does Gabriel Evans still hold the KOM?

That was Richmond, and no.

Pesky parks

I think he may still have the fastest known Regent's solo lap, something like 5.35.

Edit: Bit of fact-checking reveals RPR riders have gone faster than this since then, impressive!

The ironic thing was that the doping chat last year/year before was about another RPR rider who went from being a very much below average rider to riding everyone off his wheel in about 6 months...

Probably just gave up gluten or something...

I'm no huge RPR fanboy but I've seen the way they train and race for the last few years (coincidentally I was at one of Arlen's first cat 4 races - he was ludicrously strong). The intensity at which they ride is perfectly suited to making large gains very quickly provided you can keep up the workload. Tom Percival's blog is a good insight into just how much work some of those guys are doing.

The rider we were talking about was already doing that workload though (500/600km weeks).

In terms of the training load yeah some of those guys were doing the same as some of the domestic pros with regular 20hour weeks. You're right that if you can manage it you're always going to have a distinct advantage over most other amateurs who just don't have that time/will to train that much.

Factoring in proper recovery could have yielded gains

But that means giving up beer and bread...to much sacrifice. Also, you then become what my Kiwi mate refers to as glutards.

Yeah maybe.

Interesting how the team has fallen apart though, everyone (the decent racers), with the exception of Tom has left. Which was then followed by in club doping accusations...

Yeah it's interesting, I don't really know what's going on with them atm. It would be a shame if doping was involved, I already think they're kinda cheating by doing so much training and not turning up hungover to races.

I already think they're kinda cheating by doing so much training and not turning up hungover to races.

Ungentlemanly conduct surely.

My partners uncle raced as a stagiere in Belgium in the 1970s. He's got some great stories of some of his team mates experimenting with their pot belge doses.
I'd imagine there'd be a similar level of experimentation at a grass roots level these days if you weren't part of some doping programme.

They’ve been to see him then.

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Better genes, just trains harder and wants it moar