Edogawakikkoman
Maximum Pace
- Jan 14, 2007
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To blow my own trumpet a little I try and drink a lot of water...the 52.2% test I'm sure I was a little dehydrated as I rode an hour that morning to the test.
I've always had decent natural fitness, especially when I was 15,16 & 17.
At rugby training as everybody was dropping from exhaustion I seemed to be getting more and more energy...that year I was drinking lots of freshly made carrot and tomato juice before training. I thought that was my secret, not having any idea about hematocrits and such.
I also did a home delivery milk run 3 nights a week after school which built up a strange fitness..but also a lot of knee damage. Running with as much as 15kgs hanging off each arm up and down the steep home driveways of Collaroy.
Rather than study hard I was in almost every school sports team. We had both Rugby League and Union, basketball, baseball a bit of cricket...
When I was 17, I did a sports test at Sydney University and they said they'd never seen such results with Vo2 max and other. I wish I'd have known then what I know now.
Would have been nice to have been whisked off to the Australian Institute of sport and put into the cycling squad.
Women, beer, cigarettes and having a good time took me down the wrong path....I still played a lot of competitive basketball and rugby...
Then when I was 23ish I snapped my ACL...was in the valley then for a long time.
Last week before this test was done I had extra water the days before and that morning... I've been on a strict diet though which I think helped.
My natural body water content is lower than normal...but I guess that is due to the high hematocrit levels and trying to fight it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
I'm still a fat bastard now but have held my own in a lot of cycling races due to my natural doping ability....against much younger opponents...
And I was also in the school band blowing my trumpet then as well....
I've always had decent natural fitness, especially when I was 15,16 & 17.
At rugby training as everybody was dropping from exhaustion I seemed to be getting more and more energy...that year I was drinking lots of freshly made carrot and tomato juice before training. I thought that was my secret, not having any idea about hematocrits and such.
I also did a home delivery milk run 3 nights a week after school which built up a strange fitness..but also a lot of knee damage. Running with as much as 15kgs hanging off each arm up and down the steep home driveways of Collaroy.
Rather than study hard I was in almost every school sports team. We had both Rugby League and Union, basketball, baseball a bit of cricket...
When I was 17, I did a sports test at Sydney University and they said they'd never seen such results with Vo2 max and other. I wish I'd have known then what I know now.
Would have been nice to have been whisked off to the Australian Institute of sport and put into the cycling squad.
Women, beer, cigarettes and having a good time took me down the wrong path....I still played a lot of competitive basketball and rugby...
Then when I was 23ish I snapped my ACL...was in the valley then for a long time.
Last week before this test was done I had extra water the days before and that morning... I've been on a strict diet though which I think helped.
My natural body water content is lower than normal...but I guess that is due to the high hematocrit levels and trying to fight it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
I'm still a fat bastard now but have held my own in a lot of cycling races due to my natural doping ability....against much younger opponents...
And I was also in the school band blowing my trumpet then as well....
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