devashish_paul wrote:
plant_based wrote:
synthetic wrote:
why do you need camelbak for 5k???
I’m really high maintenance. I usually go through 40-48oz of Gatorade in 3.0-3.1mi if I’m doing a threshold effort.
I have to say that you are being a bit clueless. At least what you are doing does not apply to anyone in the history of track (check out pictures of every starting lineup in every olympic and worlds 5000m).
Athletes in the Olympic games 5000m are going much harder than you. A 5000m race is not a buffet. If humans could not survive in between 12 minutes and 20 minute without nutrition at intensities slightly higher than 1 hrs threshold, then our species would be extinct. You don't have different genetic DNA than the rest of humanity, and are not a physiological N=1.
It is certain that this is in your head. No one needs any nutrition or liquid for 5000m, even the person who takes 1 hrs to do this in 40C heat. They have enough hydration and sodium on the their body and enough stored glycogen alreaddy.
48 oz of Gatorade during a 5000m race is slowing you down between carrying it and diverting blood flow to absorb it (which you won't in such a short duration). Plus it is OK to sweat and lose some hydration and end a short race mildly dehydrated....there is a tradeoff on performance because you get lighter as you lose a touch of weight as you burn through glycogen+water stored on your body.
If you are reasonably trained, which you appear to be you can easly go 90-120 minutes on zero nutrition. for 5000m this is in your head only.
what you say is 100% true. only thing I can think of is when I was in the powerlifting/bodybuilding world, I drank a ton and always thirsty when it came to cardio. (I took creatine back then at it has something to do with water retention). The longest run I did was about 17 miles no water. I do chew gum though on my runs, which lasts me for an hour without thinking about water.