jstoveld wrote:
Power13 wrote:
Have you considered that your problem may be that you are drinking TOO MUCH?
5 bottles of liquid for a 56 mile ride is a lot, IMHO. My stomach would be sloshing like a water balloon if I drank that much.
Im not a superhuman or anything so this is not a backdoor brag.
I sweat like the best of them.
Salt stains up the wazoo on my kit, veins sucked in and then having to be pumped full of saline?
Nah - This isn't a too much thing aside maybe it being water in the mix. Flushing out electrolytes.
I asked the doctor the same thing too. Though it was funny the way we went through the process of elimination.
"If youre only peeing 2x max in the whole race,
and youre puting that much flud in yourself.
Im likely to believe that this is coming out as sweat."
I know you are convinced that it is a dehydration issue, but I would encourage you to keep an open mind. Your body can only process so much fluid at a time, as someone else noted. If you are jamming your system with more that that, you are gonna overwhelm the system.
That is why they give dehydrated people IV's instead of having them drink a bunch of water....their body can't process it fast enough.
5 bottles is a crapton of liquid for 56 miles. For reference, last weekend at Racine I didn't even finish the two bottles I started with (although it was not very warm and I normally don't need a lot).
What are you eating, and what are your taking in on the run?
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