I’m really trying to take some lessons away from yesterdays race.
Both yesterday in New Orleans and last week at Lavaman I got chilled on the run. Goosebumps in 80 degree heat and 90 percent humidity is an indication of what?
I peed on the run yesterday, but I felt thirsty and screwed up my hydration on the bike by skipping the last water stop (ran dry of liquids at mile 49-50 of the bike)p and then missed water in transistion so it was almost 30 minutes without taking in liquid.
Last week at lavaman I forgot to drink pretty much the entire bike course.
Are the chills from hydration, low salts, or both. I’ve never had a problem with salts in the past.
I have a similar issue in the pool. If I don’t fuel up before a swim workout, I get really cold in the pool. My hand and feet would get ice cold. Even with hard sets my body would still shiver.
I used to get this on all of my long runs when training for a marathon. The research I did led me to believe I wasn’t replacing electrolytes sufficiently. I upped my electrolytes in my Infinit mixture and it solved my problem.
I don’t know what causes it, but I get that sometimes too. It usually happens in the 2nd half of a standalone 10k, when I’m running hard. Never during training.
This happened to me too on my long runs as well like dawn. For me it was lack of sodium. I’m not one of those people that needs a lot, but i was getting none in my diet before because i didn’t include any because it’s bad for you. Well getting chills while running in AZ should never happen, thats bad for you! haha… so I just started to add more salt to my diet, not a lot, just added some and that helped. I ran a half marathon on Saturday and was fine.
Although electrolytes may be part of the equation, I believe this is more related to heat exhaustion and not enough fluids. If you have chills on a run, you could be getting yourself into trouble, and particularly if you notice that you aren’t sweating as much or are sweating little. This will go with heat exhaustion. If you quit sweating totally, you could be on the way to heat stroke…make sure you keep up the fluids and electrolytes, and see if that is helpful.
this has happened to me a lot. Usually means dehydration and that your body is tricking you into thinking your cold so that you stop sweating and stop losing fluids.
this has happened to me a lot. Usually means dehydration and that your body is tricking you into thinking your cold so that you stop sweating and stop losing fluids.
+1. I have been caught on long runs in hot temperatures without enough fluids. First chills, then light-headedness, then muscle spasms. Not good.
I’ll agree with this as well - I had a bad Oly last year that left me heaving up anything I would try to take down on the bike. The run was 85+ degrees, and I had goose bumps and was shaking from being so cold. Not a drop of sweat.