Recent content by DonTickles

What would we expect to see on the chart for someone if they were engaging in blood doping and microdosing EPO? Maybe someone can break it down for us a bit so we know what we are looking at better? My speculation would be that Retic % would be highest after a blood draw as the body replaces...

Getting treatment for knee problems.

While we're complaining about spelling and grammar I want to take a second to complain about "begs the question". I've seen it misused multiple times in the last week on this forum and I cringe every time. It's a logical fallacy, it is not when one thing raises a question about another. Please...

Anecdotal so take it for what it is, but a few years ago I started running in the spring like I did every year. I was also working with weights at the time and taking creatine daily. I quickly started having swelling issues with my calves while running, usually at about the 3 mile point, in the...

Isn't HTC-Columbia also TMobile/Telekom? Different GM in Stapleton but how much of the rest of the support staff/management is the same?

Out of the four "You might be a..." threads I've got quite a bit of Fredness. 2. If you have a beard then you might be a fred. I don't have a real beard, but I only shave once a week so that 6th or 7th day it's basically a beard. 12. If you don't file off the lawyer tabs on your fork, you...

If you change your team and then rejoin the league it lists you twice. With my amount of indecision I'm sure Dr Don's EPO Emporium will end up listed 5 or 6 times by Saturday. The sidebar says that should be fixed at some point.

I live in Maryland where we don't have high mountains, but still have some decent shorter climbs that I can ride to from my house. Have a few at 7 to 8 km averaging 7% (gps tells me the max pitch being 19.1% on one). I've got a short hill over 20% that I tried to get up the other day, it's only...

Question, when a rider trains at altitude (or sleeps in one of the altitude tents), what altitude are we talking here? Have there been studies on what would be the best altitude? Apparently the highest you can get in the Sierra Nevada's is about 11,500 feet, and you probably aren't sleeping...

-1 Boo! Working is much more enjoyable when there is a bike race sitting next to your spreadsheets. :) Seriously though, as has already been said; the internet is so much better with FireFox, AdBlock Plus, and NoScript. Also, keep auto-updates on for Windows (will eliminate 98% of the threats...

Thanks for the ideas, I generally only have a chance to do group rides once a week, if that; I'll make sure I don't miss them and I'll try to stick with the faster group to work on riding in a group and drafting better. The steady paced riding I've mostly done was more or less to build a base...

My wife is not a morning person, so on the weekends if I ride from 7:00 to 9:30 or so then I'm getting back when she's starting her day, so there's no conflict. During the week I'll ride to work a few times and do a bit on the trainer here or there at night. I like the meeting the family at the...

I'm preparing for my first century in about 2 months. I'm not worried about the distance but I would like to improve my average speed over that distance. I'm currently riding between 100 and 150 miles a week, but my training is sporadic and without any real direction. With work and family I can...

When I was stationed in Iraq a buddy of mine had a bleeding hemorrhoid. I guess he had it for a while and didn't tell anyone. He looked pretty pasty and eventually passed out from blood loss in front of someone, which is when he was forced to get help. He said he was too embarrassed to get help...

No no no, you've got it all wrong. It's just proof that the Bio passport is working better than expected. Since Vino obviously cannot perform at his old, blood doped level without being doped now, it just means that he's NOT performing at those levels. It means that everyone else is clean and...