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He missed the post race press conference due to this they said. What is it about altitude that causes issues ? I understand the air is thinner , but didn't he have the same thing at the national in Colorado last year ? Interesting that it has affected him yet again,
And it's up a bit higher in elevation actually.
The Shop
Still he put in a good ride if he wasn't feeling too good, I hope he turns it up in the outdoors because the guys got one of the coolest riding styles in the sport and just seems to have the right attitude about racing.
Im confused where the two are related here? Can you enlighten us please?
Pit Row
I am still confused at what you are advocating for him to do. Leave Aldon and go join Tomac in Colorado because he is now winning? What about at round 1 and 2 when Roczen was cleaning up? Should he have moved down the road and shacked up with Kenny and AC?
When I lived near Breckenridge at 9600 feet people with altitude sickness would get sent down to Denver at 5280 feet to recover.
Even those who live at moderately high altitude, say 4,000-5,000, can still get spaced out if they go to 6,000-8,000 and exert themselves.
Dungey did Bakers program remotely from Minnesota for a brief period before moving to FL. For whatever reason, somebody determined it was important that baker have more intensive oversight on his training, so it's safe to assume--as also hinted toward in other anecdotes--that bakers program requires the riders to live and train at the facility. So the design of bakers program includes living at the factory which is at sea level.
Bakers job is to physically prepare riders to compete at the races, wherever they may be. Jason Anderson has been physically incapable of competing at Lakewood and has shown the problem has not improved with his issues at Utah. So if a riders is physically incapable of competing at an event then his physical preparation didn't do what it's supposed to.
This has nothing to do with Tomac winning. I made no mention of tomac or anybody else winning. You wrote that second paragraph on your own for whatever reason. I'm addressing a specific problem that applies to one rider. That specific problem has known solutions that haven't been implemented. Since moving to bakers program, Anderson has physically struggled at altitude.
Anderson has the ability to win races and contend for a championship. But both schedules include a race at altitude and he has a problem at those venues. He and his team cannot reasonably expect to win a championship knowing he will potentially wash out at certain rounds based on a treatable physical issue. His training needs to be adjusted by changing locations, sleeping in a pressure chamber, doping with EPO or whatever they want to do to fix this problem. Bakers program hasn't done this.
What about all the results at sea level this year which have been less than stellar? Is that Bakers issue also? Because as you say he should be contending for a championships I just don't understand how you can categorically say that he should leave Baker based on this. Yes I will agree that last year at Lakewood wasn't a good look, but to be fair he'd never shown signs of that before so there was no reason to expect it to happen when it did.
And as far as suggesting EPO as a way to cure altitude sickness in a professional athlete, well I wont even dignify that with a response
I'm saying he should adjust his program to solve this issue. That probably means leaving baker because baker is not keen on tailoring programs to specific riders, but not necessarily. His physiology has specific needs that have to be addressed, however he handles that is his business. He's showed signs again, so it's a repeated, known problem. Fix it.
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