What pain reliever do you use and by taking these during the race, are there performance side-effects?
The performance side-effects aren’t the ones you should be worried about…
Do you really want to mask your pain and cause yourself a potential serious injury?
I’ve used Advil before and didn’t had any side-effects. For me it works just fine.
The performance side-effects aren’t the ones you should be worried about…
Do you really want to mask your pain and cause yourself a potential serious injury?
Agreed…it wasn’t during an IM but I used to take Advil before a hard training session, not sure why I ever started doing that. Ended up pushing too hard and injuring my Achilles, had to stop running for 60 days. Don’t numb the pain.
I’m sure someone will get to this but I have read that ibuprofen slows the absorption of fluids so it is a little tricky to use for endurance racing.
not only that, but from what I have read you really don’t want to take anything that puts a strain on your kidneys at the time you need them to be working at their optimal level.
There may be benefits to taking them, but I think they are vastly outweighed by the potential damage they could do to major areas of your body.
NSAIDs (like advil) are really bad – they prevent healing. Having said that, I’ve been using heavy doses for years and am slowly weaning myself off of them. I can post some links to various articles about why they are so bad if anyone is interested.
there are many bad side effects during racing with them, for some are if its hot can cause GI bleeds…as well as GI distress is likely with out the bleeds but Bleeds are more common than you think in endurance athletes that cant take the pain 
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I’ve never had issues with them. If you can get some Celebrex they’re quite a bit easier on your stomach. But you need a Rx. If you are taking
them during an IM I would go w/ Aleve, they are longer lasting. Take as needed, not wanted.
Good points have been made. Another one is NSAIDS
especially ibuprofin has been associated with renal failure
when associated with dehydration
I don’t have the reference off the top of m y head, but I heard you NEVER want to take NSAIDs during an endurance activity or immediately after for about the first 24 hours. I also heard that’s why they give Tylenol after marathons for pain relief instead of Advil or Motrin.
The performance side-effects aren’t the ones you should be worried about…
Do you really want to mask your pain and cause yourself a potential serious injury?
Yes! That’s the idea.
The performance side-effects aren’t the ones you should be worried about…
Do you really want to mask your pain and cause yourself a potential serious injury?
Yes! That’s the idea.
A potential injury is the idea…?
would add that aspirin is known to screw up thermoregulation. so, we run the engine hot and we don’t want to mess with the body’s cooling mechanism…
Morph
I run through pain all the time in races. I don’t think Tylenol does enough to block the pain of a serious injury. I just block minor aches and pains.
In past years there were VERY successful Ironman racers who took large amounts of Advil during races. One time in the transitions area seeing them stuck in bars that were stuck to top tubes there were so many I 1st thought they were M & Ms!
In past years there were VERY successful Ironman racers who took large amounts of Advil during races. One time in the transitions area seeing them stuck in bars that were stuck to top tubes there were so many I 1st thought they were M & Ms!
A. See, even fast people aren’t that bright. 
B. are you sure they were Advil?
- The guy is pretty smart and has a lot of followers
- yes
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Pain is justs weakness leaving the body. Are you sure you want to keep all of your weakness in with you?
Ditch the pills.
I used Aleve since it lasts longer, and would do so again. I’m aware of the warnings about impairing kidney function, but given the situation of an IM race or a couple of peak summer training rides, I was pretty well tuned in to hydration needs anyway so I don’t think isolated use (just a handful of events over the course of a season) is too much of a risk. It’s a race, right? I’m willing to run a slightly higher risk so I can hopefully go a bit harder when it counts. I’d be more wary of chronic use (like most things).