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NOT SO EGGS-CELLENT

© GUILLEM CASANOVA / GUILLEMCASANOVA.COM

TOKEN BLOKE

I’ve had a couple of odd things happen to me lately. The first one dates back to before Marathon des Sables (MdS) in April. The Ultra-Trail World Tour is rightly trying to clamp down on Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) before our largely amateur sport becomes farcical like cycling and athletics. As an MdS runner with a higher International Trail Running Association (ITRA) ranking, I was chosen for a short-notice test. A demand, via a strangely worded (translated from French, I know now) SMS, for a blood sample within four days.

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