102 Minutes

Just finished reading 102 Minutes. It's a collection of accounts of victims of of the 9/11 attacks. Some people whose stories are featured in the book survived, some didn't. It's an engaging account, mixing personal accounts with historical anecdotes of the construction of the World Trade Complex. A good, thorough book, that moves with the pace of the 102 minutes between when the first tower was hit and when the remaining tower fell.

Insight into Drugs in Endurance Sports

As I sit here watching NFL playoff football, my mind wanders to the subject of drugs in sport. A few years ago while I was visiting my uncle, he showed me an article from Outside Magazine. The author of the article dopes up on all the best performance enhancing drugs and gives a report of their effects. Under a doctor's supervision he takes EPO, HGH, testosterone, and steroids. The article is a really insightful read, and shows why drugs are such a lure to professional athletes.

I recently finished reading Breaking the Chain by Willy Voet. It's partially about Voet's account of the 1998 Festina scandal during the Tour. All the drugs that WADA is just now able to test for were being used back then. That goes to show that the drug takers have always been ahead of the authorities.