For all those who watch more than the tour de frog.

On that note I’d best get up and give the antenna that runs the TV in the office a damm good talking to. The only channels I cannot pick up in the office are the SBS one’s. Bloody annoying when one needs a pipe, and things like a good bike race is on.

I’ve got a fiver that says Kittel will take the stage and OGE will retain the Maglia Rosa.

All these crashes with road features… It’s almost as though they were all on a pain drug that makes it difficult to concentrate. Like, say, Tramadol.

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believable finish.

Rule 303 said:

All these crashes with road features… It’s almost as though they were all on a pain drug that makes it difficult to concentrate. Like, say, Tramadol.

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I think I’ve figured out why they use tramadol Rule. It inhibits Noradrenaline reuptake (along with serotonin reuptake), which in some studies I’ve found, improves exercise performance (although, this was in combo with dopamine release – at that level of exertion they are probably getting dopamine released naturally).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18499777

Morning folks

poikilotherm said:

I think I’ve figured out why they use tramadol Rule. It inhibits Noradrenaline reuptake (along with serotonin reuptake), which in some studies I’ve found, improves exercise performance (although, this was in combo with dopamine release – at that level of exertion they are probably getting dopamine released naturally).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18499777

That would make sense.

The level of exertion is very moderate, for most riders. It goes up for hills and attacks and individual efforts, obviously, but for most of them, sitting in a large pelaton at 45km/hr requires very little effort. A typical heartrate trace for an elite athlete at peak competition will show an average of 120bpm, bouncing between 80 and 125, with very narrow spikes to 175.

Rule 303 said:

poikilotherm said:

I think I’ve figured out why they use tramadol Rule. It inhibits Noradrenaline reuptake (along with serotonin reuptake), which in some studies I’ve found, improves exercise performance (although, this was in combo with dopamine release – at that level of exertion they are probably getting dopamine released naturally).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18499777

That would make sense.

The level of exertion is very moderate, for most riders. It goes up for hills and attacks and individual efforts, obviously, but for most of them, sitting in a large pelaton at 45km/hr requires very little effort. A typical heartrate trace for an elite athlete at peak competition will show an average of 120bpm, bouncing between 80 and 125, with very narrow spikes to 175.

It must be for those spikes, as I’d assume that’s when the dopamine would be release, not much would come out plodding along at 120bpm.

Kittel’s gone!

Withdrawn – Fever.

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Henk Vogels had barely finished the sentence ‘no-one crashes going up hill, unless you’re a Hubbard’ when the Pelaton went down 15.9km from the chequered flag on the fifth.

Bahahahahaaaa…

Quintana is looking pretty good to take out the silver ware in the final stage tonight. I guess there’s gotta be some compensation for being a grown man the size of a 12yo boy.