So … what I see here is a great opportunity for FS !! A FS writer should do an under-cover, skiing specific, try-every performance enhancing drug available to mankind experiment and write about it. Such an epic article series will then pull zillions of new readers to this site, just like it did for Outside. View counts will go up, FS can charge more for ads, FS readers have great content to enjoy – everyone wins.

All FS just needs to do is choose which writer should be the guinea pig that takes the needles. Ok, so that’s an easy choice. You’re going to be famous Patrick!!!

I pretty much let go of athletic dreams when I caught a kind of excersize induced asthma allergy thing. Because the meds I need to work out, are on the list.
As I’m over the years crawling out of that canyon, and now reading this, it’s kind of depressing. Wow, does that stuff really help THAT much? I better make sure that when I go back to serious competition, the podiums are doping tested as standard practice. I’ve been in occasional races that were sample checked, just never got lucky myself.
I hear plenty of stories about amateur cyclists who ride “too” easy. Should be lauded elites, but for some unknown reason aren’t. Really, being “over thehill” at 33 now, I don’t feel like competing at that level anymore.
If my competition is doping, they better be spending fortunes on it, going through trouble not to get caught. I know I’ll be better rested then, come race day.
I’m a proponent of non-illegal nutricional supplements, as I know they can make a difference. Each person has a deficit of something, that could in theory be closed by eating a lot of something. Might as well get the appropriate capsule. That to me is different from taking something that works for everyone (I don’t believe Erik Zabel).

How does this article make you people feel about competing?

This HGH seems like something I’d want to be having, had I not been an aspiring racer…