Here's the problem with your stance. We as a sporting society are not 100% anti aids. For example some drugs are actually allowed even though there is some form of performance gain (caffeine for example). So the moment that shoes are allowed (I also believe they are regulated as to how much of an advantage), you gotta really STFU with your doping stance, honestly.
Like I'm with you that the shoes provide a benefit. But you standing on the street corner calling every nike shoe user a doper is just as stupid at this point.
So there are some things that we allow even though the are an "aid" to athlete performances. Some asthma "puffers" are allowed, some drugs are allowed to an degree, some equipment is allowed and there is usually a line in the sand of the allowance.
I'm sure the Hoka Carbon X shoe would have normal people running PR's as well, should that shoe be disallowed....Like where's the line in the sand? Is 1% aid cool, but 3% aid too much?
But it's always been funny to me that you can draft your way to a huge PR on the bike and serve what a 5 min penalty, but if you did the same "advantage" by taking drugs, your penalty is suddenly what 2-4 years out of the sport.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
Like I'm with you that the shoes provide a benefit. But you standing on the street corner calling every nike shoe user a doper is just as stupid at this point.
So there are some things that we allow even though the are an "aid" to athlete performances. Some asthma "puffers" are allowed, some drugs are allowed to an degree, some equipment is allowed and there is usually a line in the sand of the allowance.
I'm sure the Hoka Carbon X shoe would have normal people running PR's as well, should that shoe be disallowed....Like where's the line in the sand? Is 1% aid cool, but 3% aid too much?
But it's always been funny to me that you can draft your way to a huge PR on the bike and serve what a 5 min penalty, but if you did the same "advantage" by taking drugs, your penalty is suddenly what 2-4 years out of the sport.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II