Brian Johnson

Just read Tonkin's St. Niklaas entry...

I found the paragraph about making cookies for Barry Wicks pretty interesting. So-- Wicks was already sick. To cheer him up, Powers and Tonkin decided to make some cookies and "ignore the gluten-free thing". WTH?! Is Wicks gluten-intolerant (or a Celiac)? If he's already sick, and has a food-intolerance/allergy, then what on earth were Powers and Tonkin trying to do? Make Wicks even more sick??

From Tonkin's post:
"Wicks went on to finish 11th, a sweet result, I think, and long overdue for my favorite. He was sick when I arrived at camp, and he hadn?t, in his own mind, been riding anywhere near his best. He was down and struggling with motivation. The night before the race, Powers took it upon himself to light Wicks? wick (and that sounds bad?maybe I should say ?stoke his flame?, instead) by baking him some peanut butter cookies. Yep, it was a page straight out of my playbook. We decided that it was such a serious situation that we?d ignore the whole gluten-free thing and use real wheat flour??there?s no time, man!? I said. Yep, Jeremy?s a Carmichael-style believer in the athlete?s need for a healthy central nervous system, or ?CNS?, as he always says."

One's food is another's poison!