It’s a question I’ve wondered about, this article implies ‘no it isn’t’: http://www.velonews.com/train/articles/13149.0.html. Maybe someday it might be, no? what then?
Weird segue to pregnant cyclists tho’
Seems to me a couple of questions. Which doping? What amounts?
If you drink too much water it can kill you.
No easy answer.
Dave
Why do you ask? But as a research scientist, shouldn’t you be able to find out through research?
I agree, one thing that interested me was the observation that the wada put an end to ‘team surpervised’ doping in '99, effectively making it more dangerous to dope. Made it sound as if it was relatively safe prior to '99. Extrapolating from the obviously dangerous drug program of the 70’s era East German Olympic teams to the relatively safe (?) team sponsored doping of cycling I can see a time where doping could actually be no different from say lasik surgery. I’d prefer it be all bad, all the time. Makes ethics less a consideration.
I think that medically supervised doping is safer than doping without supervision. I also think that not doping is safer than medically assisted doping. …Speaking in the most general terms when discussing a group of subjects, not any one athlete or one doping program.
Assited doping might be safer if your sport was to regularly push yourself to near-death levels of exertion. Who knows.
Not that kinda scientist, however that’s probably why it interests me. I think it’s easy to imagine researchers working to minimize the deleterious side effects of drugs commonly used in doping, not necessarily for nefarious reasons. The end result will make it harder to detect drug cheats in sports sooooo drugs in sports will be an increasingly difficult problem (no great revelation here folks, move along)
Do an internet search for an Outside magazine that is a few years old. The author underwent a ‘self-study’ where he ‘doped’ on a bunch of legal stuff that just a lot of Dr.s can prescribe. He was under Dr. supervision the whole time…in fact…I believe that a Dr. was the one administering the stuff. Give a good perspective on why doping in the age group ranks may be a little more widespread that you/we may think.
I’ve got no basis for that last sentence other than the fact that there seem to be quite a few folks…many on slowtwitch…who think that age group use is prevalent. I can’t speak for professional use, but we all know that there have been adverse findings or even postives each year since 2000 at least.
Hey Brandon, you must be procrasting training again! 
I’m still in for Austin week from mon, had the flu earlier this wk but am fine now. Hope to see you there if you can drag yourself away from surfing the web:) I was going to post your rant on roadies but was afraid of copyright infringement…my new favorite phrase ‘what a barney’
Yes. I am not looking forward to my 2 x (20’ bike + 2 mile run) workout that I have coming up.
Edit to last post. I cannot speak for other professionals. I can only speak for this one and the other one that lives with me. Whether or not doping is safe…we are racing clean.
Did the peewee version of that yesterday 2x(10’x1), that was interesting.
Regarding AG doping: I’ll bet 90-95% of the people we compete (participate, in my case) with are drug free and I believe it’s because of personal choice. Funny as it sounds I believe most believe chose to compete fair.
Good luck! hope to see you in Austin