There's an author who did exactly this, and wrote all about it for Outside magazine quite a few years back.
His results were remarkable. Which should be no surprise - that stuff works.

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Nope.

I like knowing that my performances (or lack thereof) are "all me". I don't really get hung up on beating other people. I mean it's nice to finish ahead, but that's not my primary goal.

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I am with Cody on this one....plus a few more adds.

- For the most part I believe that right now, long course triathlon is relatively clean. I cannot speak for the sport before I started racing Pro in 2006.

- You DO have to believe that everyone you are racing against is clean.

- I support rules and rule changes that I believe to help maintain integrity in our sport. After that I don't have the time to sit around wondering who is on what. Hopefully the system catches those who cut corners. Karma is a bitch and those who cheat their way up have some serious internal demons they are battling.

- Most doping occurs in the AG ranks...either out of ignorance or because those athletes believe it's not that big of a deal or that they will never be tested.

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Our sport won't change drastically in terms of testing in the near term future because it's just not worth it to those who are in control. It's too cost prohibitive. Perhaps when this sport makes it's way into all the colleges and high schools it will become more mainstream and the testing will follow. For right now, those who are tested probably believe that there is enough testing and those who are not probably believe there needs to be more.

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x2 on the above. The whole point of this for me is to see what my body is capable of. Doping would be like going out to do a 40k TT and have it net downhill, or with a net tailwind...it's pointless and you can't use the data point. Heck, it annoyed me that there was more traffic on my way home from my ride this morning giving me a sling shot I didn't get on the way out which threw off my speed:watts ratio. Regardless of the ethics, physical side effect risks, etc, to me jacking up the data would be the worst part, and the biggest turn off.

Also, if the big pull of doping is that it aids in recovery and an athlete can therefore push harder, more often; I'd argue that 95% of age groupers don't come near their max levels of fatigue and recovery, and even when they do (or overdo) it's not consistent. That's why the top 5% is the top 5%. All it takes is a Strava account to see that. Speaking of which, seeing a couple of peers go from where I am (<top 5%) to the "next level" of KQ, it's just work, and it's right there. So I guess I'm not seeing the need or the prevalence of doping in the AG ranks.

If people are doping in the AG ranks...whatever. I see the spread of athletes as it stands now, and I see a clear path from where I am to where I want to be without cheating, so what do I care if some of the people in that spread are dumb enough to dope.

Boulder is very accessible to testers. With all of the pro cyclists and runners who live there, you can bet USADA and WADA are lurking around there. I am more skeptical about the training camps in places like Tenerife(spelling) and S. Africa and Mexico.

Those lists are screwed!

Helen Jenkins Gwen Jorgenson and Nicola Spirig are all on there all pregnant and not racing.

Just going to pick 2 women I can name off top of my head Ashleigh Gentle just came 2nd and selected 1 year out for commonwealth games and Vicky Holland not on list ?

How do those lists work?

Doping works.
It works in the 80-90-00-10 and now.

It has always been easy to get in most countries.
Doping like steroids and testosterone have been easily available since the 80s.
Epo start being available at the end of the 80s, got well known in the early 90s up to testing started (2002).
Since early 70s classic blood doping has been going on. If I am not totally wrong, it was not illegal before 1984/85.

Testing has been driven by national associations (if any).
Ironman did no testing.
Chances for get caught was small.

Triathletes were in the same circles as cyclists.

Just some points.

I thought the same thing, when they only have testing for 30 females when each wts race can have 65 athletes, why have pregnant women who wont be racing this season on their list? The new lists were put up end of March it says, so that was before Gentle qualified for comm games. Not sure if she was on the earlier quarter, if they mix it up a bit or not. Gentle would however already be on the ASADA out of comp testing pool I would assume, others up around her level are. Likewise, Vicky would surely be on UKADA testing pool.

If they are on an out of comp testing programme they would have had to been available that day for one hour which they would have previously put in their whereabouts, otherwise they could have an infringement. There are 17 hours in the day that they can choose 1 of for testing, this could leave plenty of time for a ride and site seeing. If the athlete you were referring to is not on the ITU testing programme and also not from a country which has out of comp testing that is another story.

This article is from 2003, but it's exactly what you are discussing. An amateur athlete taking a full menu of PEDs, basically becomes superhuman. He went to an anti aging doctor that treats a lot of athletes and rich guys over 50.

https://www.outsideonline.com/1924306/drug-test