The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

That volume was the gateway here, and a lot of that comes down to this was pre-high carb.

In fact, a listener wrote a question that is not on this outline, it was in our Patreon outline, about Tyler Hamilton's book, The Secret Race.

So Tyler Hamilton, champion cyclist back in the day, doper, and in that book he talks about the way that they controlled their weight in the cycling peloton back then and, uh, all of these different things to make life miserable.

And the reason they did all of that is because they were trying to do stupid human tricks because they didn't have high carb.

And nowadays with high carb it's totally different.

The science fiction element of it is quite interesting, uh, just from an intellectual perspective and to understand the future w- that we're walking toward.

Okay.

The, your bias is that your favorite genre of books has always been apocalyptic novels.

I would like to request a coach's corner on doping when we go away and do a bit of research and stuff because I've been on the five-hour flight back yesterday.

I read three-quarters of a book called The Secret Race, which is all about Tyler Hamilton.

who is one of the key riders for Lance Armstrong when he won his first two Tour de France's.

And it is just a completely open book on how they doped.

be good to have a look into it and like look at the effects of EPO.

There's all sorts of other types of, you know, testosterone, you know, all these different things about recovery and boosting, boosting stuff like, but really fascinating.

So the secret race, if you're interested in, and there's a book called David Walsh, who's the guy who basically busted Lance Arshad.

And how Lance Armstrong went about getting away with it for so long, just by being on the offensive, just threatening to sue people.