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RE: [RC] e'lytes and supplements - Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M.I remember a few years back when I was collecting data at Tevis, I asked a bunch of riders to estimate how many miles they planned to cover on foot. One rider in particular told me he didn't plan on doing more than "a mile or two, just into vet checks" of the trail on foot. Uh huh. It was Chris Knoch, who if tales be true, runs a very, very big chunk of the trail on foot. At the same ride, I asked riders to rate their own level of riding skill. Amazing how many Tevis riders consider themselves to ride at "near Olympic levels" of equitation. That was one of the years the ride was being professionally videotaped and some friends and I got together to watch the tape and match rider numbers with their self-proclaimed equitation skills. We almost injured ourselves laughing and falling off the couch. Conclusions of this 235-rat study: endurance riders are the biggest liars on earth. :-) Even more so if they think they might be giving up some sort of edge. Some of the private emails I've received from members of international teams would go against a claim of "no supplements before, during or after". Susan Garlinghouse -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Truman Prevatt Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:49 PM To: rides2far@xxxxxxxx; Ride Camp Subject: Re: [RC] e'lytes and supplements Those wre my exact thoughts. The French are not going to tell you their secrets. They are looking to win and to have any competitive advantage they can get. Yep I suspect they are more interested in psyching out the competition more than providing words of wisdon for the betterment of mankind. If an SEC football coach told all his secrets, he be fired tomorrow and hung the next day. Count me in as a skeptic. Truman rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote: I remember a rider who was known for sort of "trash talk" or psyching others out commenting to me once "Sometimes I wonder if we're doing them a favor with all these electrolytes" and she sort of hinted to me that it might be a good idea to stop. Meanwhile, she continued to use them. That was what went through my mind when I heard the French said that. Call me a skeptic. I didn't believe them. Angie -- "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong" Richard Feynman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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