Dopers Suck! (Andy)
Yes its true, but only if they've actually doped. So goes the story of today....A beautiful 70 degree day in January in Western VA...Much thanks to Northern VA for the beautiful weather...keep driving those SUVs!!! Anyway...the days plan was a big ride with Nick Waite, a friend, training buddy, and professional cyclist. I roll up to Nick's place and am talking to him on the front porch about the weather when a car pulls up and two folks emerge with a dufflebag, briefcase, sporting USADA coats and ID tags, and approached us asking which of the two of us was number 222. Apparently Nick is number 222 and these officials of the US Anti Doping Agency were surprising him with a random out of competition drug test. They nabbed Jeremiah Bishop with a test earlier that morning. Since I was present I had to witness and sign some papers confirming what I saw, etc. So Nick pounded shit tons of tea and coffee to get his bladder revved up while the USADA folks wrote down all the vitamins and nutritional supplements Nick had taken over the past 3 days. Eventually the urine began to flow and into the bottles it went. Now these bottles were not ordinary plastic urine containers. They were heavy gauge glass, almost like what nerds glasses looked like in grade school; so thick you couldn't shoot it apart. The lid had a steel pawl under the cap that would not allow the cap to be turned the opposite direction once its screwed on...a special machine is used to tap the lid and take it off. Then the bottles were put into plastic bags, then put into a small styrofoam box, sealed, and stuffed in the dufflebag. More papers were signed and the peeps got on their way. Then Nick and I used what was left of the day to hammer out a sick ride into WVa and back. All told it was pretty exciting to see the whole anti-doping checkup unfold infront of me. Nonetheless, the folks were both very friendly and an excellent representitives of the organization.
Now...remember kids, drugs are bad, and the govs got an eye on you haha
hugsandkisses
Andy


