So apparently I have waited weeks....weeks to find out that all the doping positives they promised us with in the Tour, a "mountain of positives", we get 4. 1 of which we already knew (Ricco), 1 we kind of knew (Piepoli), and 2 we thought we knew (Schumi and Kohl). Now they are telling us there are no more. I feel let down. Not that I like hearing doping news, but I thought that there were all these doping positives going to come out and it would shake the sport upside down. It really did nothing, nothing I could see. Sure, the cyclists will be less likely to dope, we found out that we were right about the riders who surprised us (that they were doping), and we found out that our favorite riders are clean, or clean from the known drugs. I feel like I keep getting lied to though, by the media, the riders, the race directors. We get told that cycling is being cleaned up, then we are told there was widespread cheating at the Tour, and then we are told that there was just a little cheating. It makes you very confused on who you want to believe.
I may sound like I think pro cycling=doping, but that's not true. There were only 4 cheaters (that were caught) out of over 170 riders. I think that the sport is moving towards being clean, more than other sports. Cycling is catching cheaters, yet it is always talked about badly. Yet other sports who don't catch cheaters, like baseball or track, don't get a bad rap like cycling does.
At least I had a good day in running today. A new 3M Pr (23:14) with only 2 days before a race. Maybe not the smartest run, but it felt good.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
MY FAVORITE THINGS
There are 2 things I could probably talk on and on about...running and pro cycling. My sport is running, specifically xc and track. I love to watch cycling though, I think the Tour is the best thing ever.
Running will always be my sport. I don't always love running but those days where you feel like you could just keep on going, when you feel amazing, it makes it worth all the bad days. It's the days when you finally have a good race, and set a new PR by 27 seconds and improve by 51 seconds. Or when you aren't happy with your race and your coach has stopped believing in your team tells you (about your race) that it was "so much freaking great". The days when you finally get under 40 minutes for 5 miles, and on the same day you actually co lead the run, for the first time it counts. Or when its cold and raining outside, but you feel great because this is your kind of running weather. It's the days when after your run, the exhaustion you feel actually makes you feel good. Running is just amazing. To understand runners I think you must run. It's too hard to explain the feeling that running gives you, all the feelings that it gives you. The way it makes you fly.
I have debated starting this blog until after the CERA positives that are supposed to come out from the Tour are announced, but I've been waiting too long. We all knew about the ones you've already announced, Schummacher and Piepoli were obvious. But the fact that there is supposed to be all these positives is making me a little nervous and sad. I don't want it to be one of my favorite riders. There are only 2 riders I think that would make me stop following cycling though, that honor belongs to Jens Voight and George Hincapie, everyone's favorites. And if Cav is guilty, I'm going to take that picture down from my bulletein board. And maybe George's too. Jens could make me lose faith in cycling, he's just the best. I think that Jens would make a lot of people lose faith in cycling. Not ever Cancellara, who I like, could do that. Just please don't let it be them. But as always we will have to wait....and wait.
Running will always be my sport. I don't always love running but those days where you feel like you could just keep on going, when you feel amazing, it makes it worth all the bad days. It's the days when you finally have a good race, and set a new PR by 27 seconds and improve by 51 seconds. Or when you aren't happy with your race and your coach has stopped believing in your team tells you (about your race) that it was "so much freaking great". The days when you finally get under 40 minutes for 5 miles, and on the same day you actually co lead the run, for the first time it counts. Or when its cold and raining outside, but you feel great because this is your kind of running weather. It's the days when after your run, the exhaustion you feel actually makes you feel good. Running is just amazing. To understand runners I think you must run. It's too hard to explain the feeling that running gives you, all the feelings that it gives you. The way it makes you fly.
I have debated starting this blog until after the CERA positives that are supposed to come out from the Tour are announced, but I've been waiting too long. We all knew about the ones you've already announced, Schummacher and Piepoli were obvious. But the fact that there is supposed to be all these positives is making me a little nervous and sad. I don't want it to be one of my favorite riders. There are only 2 riders I think that would make me stop following cycling though, that honor belongs to Jens Voight and George Hincapie, everyone's favorites. And if Cav is guilty, I'm going to take that picture down from my bulletein board. And maybe George's too. Jens could make me lose faith in cycling, he's just the best. I think that Jens would make a lot of people lose faith in cycling. Not ever Cancellara, who I like, could do that. Just please don't let it be them. But as always we will have to wait....and wait.
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