new performance enhancing drug ?

tim000

went for a 50 mile ride today 2 days after doing 46 so thought i might stuggle . after 10 miles i was stung by a wasp that flew in to my helmet. i riped my helmet off and the wasp fell to the floor with a big stinger sticking out of it,s censored . in pain i carried on with the ride . what followed was the best ride i have had in a long time . just when i should have been struggling after doing a longish ride on sunday (i;ve had a bit of a layoff so still building up the miles ) i was flying . could it be the wasp sting? will we see pro riders with wasps buzzing round their helmets next year? :shock:

Bronzie

You must suffer "reverse anaphylatic shock" because when one of the little bastards stung me on the eyebrow last weekend on the club run, all I could think was "Ow, little censored , that hurts".

Then the next day my forehead looked like the Elephant Man's as my 12-year-old son gleefully pointed out.

trailtrash

Didn't Rasmusen get stung on the lip on the stage before he got chucked out of the TDF? Praps the whole 'not telling us where he was' story was a cover up to stop people chewing wasps to gain an advantage?!

bluntandy

It could be related to the body's adrenalin response to pain???
You receive pain but not to anything that can be used , for instance your legs or hands etc. your heart beats faster your blood vessels open up delivering more O2 to your muscles.
Disabled athletes have been using this as a form of doping for years. E.g. An athlete is paralysed from the waist down and has no feeling in his/her legs. Place a drawing pin in your buttocks and bang your BP spikes with no pain with a performance improvement.
It's almost impossible to detect as "boosting" sometimes happens with no obvious cause.
Just because an athlete has a disability is does not mean they won't do everything in their power to win. same as anyone who is competing at a high level.