Here's another one: lighten up! Just having some fun here.

>From: krempaw <wkrempa@...>
>Date: Wed Dec 07 13:36:03 CST 2005
>To: rvrr@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [RVRR] Re: New Year's races

>I had planned on rejoining RVRR but? after seeing this worthless email I will
have to reconsider.
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>--- In rvrr@yahoogroups.com, "kaellis99" <kellis@s...> wrote:
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>> Excellent tip Gene!? Not only can smoking be used to simulate the
>> effects of blood doping, but obesity can be used to simulate the
>> effects of anabolic steroids.? Just pork out for a few weeks and pack
>> on about 100lbs, all the while increasing your mileage.? This loads
>> your muscles, giving you non-stop weight training.? Then for the three
>> weeks before the big race, don't eat anything except water and
>> grapefruit juice.? The hunger pangs are a killer, but heroine or
>> morphine are low-cal options for taking the edge off.? Then the night
>> before, carbo-load with some pasta.? Its just that easy.? Unlike
>> steroids, its also undetectable, unless they measure the plaque
>> buildup on your arteries.
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>> Perpetual drunkenness can also help.? A fifth of whisky before every
>> run, and you'll get used to running when you feel like crap.? Then,
>> when you don't drink before that big race, you'll feel great and run
>> well.
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>> Ken
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>> --- In rvrr@yahoogroups.com, Gene Gugliotta thinnmann@g... wrote:
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>> > I didn't make this up: cigarettes can be used as a training aid.
>> > Proper use of smoking can legally simulate the effect of blood
>> > doping.*
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>> > What you do is smoke before your workouts.? Blood cells that would
>> > normally carry oxygen are bound up with carbon monoxide and nicotine.
>> > So you train short of the normal blood cell count.? Then, before a key
>> > race, you stop smoking.? All of a sudden you have more available blood
>> > cells for carrying O2 and removing CO2!? You gain a training effect
>> > that is just like blood doping!
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>> > *FYI "blood doping" is the practice of removing and storing red blood
>> > cells from an athlete's blood months before a key event, which is then
>> > replaced within the body.? Before a key event, it is put back, and
>> > there are more red blood cells present for possible increased
>> > performance in the key event.
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>> > On 12/5/05, ken_mangin ken_mangin@y... wrote:
>> > > There was a smoker in a running club that I belonged to some years
>> > > ago.? He would light one up before and immediately after his races and
>> > > workouts.? He told me that he used to smoke occasionally during his
>> > > long training runs.? He was a pretty good runner and we always
>> > > wondered if he would have been even better if he hadn't smoked.
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