…and yet the mantra was always better undercooked than burned-out.
I think the advent of GPS watches made me train too hard on the run for Ironman; rather than just run to HR/perceived exertion I was chasing the pace. In the early years I’d just ‘run for 2h in Z2’.
Problem is I guess there’s so many decent pros these days that’s it’s an eggs against the wall thing now - there will be enough of them that have taken the risk to push their training that you can’t possibly win under-cooked
Has AB had a letter from HMRC or something?
He’ll be getting one off the EU soon about being over there too long
Big battle going on between the Laidlows and the Von Bergs
So there is an email from Von Bergs dad that accuses Laidlow of taking growth hormones. Seems to be based on a comment Laidlow’s GF made in Kona last year
It’s not a good look having this spat in public
His feet grew aged 18 so he must be on drugs
Not at all. Some sort of general statement to acknowledge it and pledge your innocence I get. But calling people out as your ‘enemies’ is a bit childish and reactive.
I had a big (for me, shut up everyone) growth spurt at about 19. Maybe I was on drugs?
But you always had massive plates, right 
I could sense it in the pre and post race interviews I’m sure. The distrust.
Just reading about that on ST
I would be utterly astonished if every professional athlete competed and/or trained clean. It’s out there.
wow, Skipper just getting involved and stiring things up
This is very interesting and looking at what you have said regarding not asking for TUEs. this seems to suggest that you have had them before which is fine as I understand some people do need them but for the interests of transparency and if you want to present a clean image have you used any corticosteroid prior to competing this year or been on them for long durations of time?
Does any of this tie into when he mysteriously pulled out of a race earlier this year because he was too busy moving?
Can’t see any of the Instagram stuff. Can you repost it for the sigma wolves.
Just read on ST that he bandited a swim race, came out first and tried to claim the win?
GB posted the link above
There’s a load more on ST
https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Sam_Laidlow_Announces_ITA_Investigation_P8028557-3/
It seems to mainly refer to Kona 2022 - as I reported at the time, lots of pro’s were pointing fingers at each other about doping, as far as I could tell, all of the pro’s were extremely suspicious about every other pro. Sam’s was one of the stand out surprise performances
Reading two pages of ST on your phone is like drilling your own head.
The combination of how quotes work and the insane/inane contents of most of the posts are killer