Blog About Sam's Thoughts And Riting Diary

Doping in sport is black and white, isn’t it? The people that use drugs that aren’t allowed are bad, and the people that don’t are good. Right? I used to be of this opinion but now I’m starting to see why there’s such a huge grey area. I should say that I am completely against doping in sport, and it frustrates me that the majority of sports (snooker?) have a problem with doping. In some it’s common knowledge, in others heads are well and truly buried in the sand. I’m not going to even try to speculate on how sport can clean itself up. Take athletics – a sport with a huge problem. I saw a statistic recently that only nine of the top thirty 100m times have been run by clean athletes – all were run by Usain Bolt. I have absolutely nothing to go on other than intuition (pls don’t sue me) but that’s suspicious, isn’t it? Consider the can of worms well and truly opened. At the beginning of this decade I got quite into weightlifting, regularly going to the gym, lifting hea

CBA to search for anything better I have been thinking about comfort recently, specifically getting out of my comfort zone during exercise, and how that has a knock-on effect in other aspects of my life. This past 18 months has been one long experiment of asking my body to do things it was either previously incapable, or I didn't believe I was. It doesn't matter which. Now lectures have finished I have more free time to ride my bike. I have also been running considerably less, though that was always the plan. This poses new challenges: getting my backside used to the discomforts of long periods/successive days in the saddle, motivation to ride in all conditions, accustoming myself to the new, and different, training stress. I love cycling -- it's definitely type one fun -- but there's always a part of me that wants to rebel against my plan. While running 5-6 days a week I wanted to cycle more. Now I am riding lots I want to run more. Rather than suppress my