Is this common? I’ve noticed others talk on the forum about almost throwing up. It’s almost happened to me a few times where I’m really hammering on a group ride or TT and I feel like I’m going to throw up, can taste it in the back of my throat, but in every case I’ve been able to control it and continue along normally.
Just wondering if anybody has ever “lost it” and not be able to control the vomiting while riding. Would imagine it’s not a pleasant experience.
I slammed on the brakes and fell into the ditch just in time to vomit. Didn’t feel like puking all over my new bike. Bakers Breakfast cookies are not for me.
Steven, a younger fella we ride with frequently, is freakishly strong. He does these hulk-like efforts and then vomits. He puked on the floor in the bike shop after a Computrainer ride once.
I liken this to a shark’s ability to momentarily eject its entire upper digestive tract out its mouth to expel objects like spiney blowfish that could damage its digestive tract.
I have only vomited about 4-5 times in my entire life, and never from exertion.
Some people are pukers, others are not.
Don’t know why.
Once, on the way home from a kegger in High School.
I don’t think that’s what you’re going for though, is it???
I’ve almost tossed several times, but it happened to me only once in a race. It was a sprint and I was really hammering. I think that was the critical factor since I never have that problem when my heartrate is lower.
Very unpleasant.
Gary Mc
Brought the kids to my moms this weekend. She makes “turkey burgers”. I eat two, then wait an hour for some digestion to occur before I tackle a hill workout near their home. This hill is a 50 second climb followed by a 40 second decent / recovery. 22 repetitions later the burger started to come up and I quit the workout. Never puked but REAL close.
Twice. Once following a very hard 8k race. Once on the bike during the Chicago Triathlon, most likely due to ingested Lake Michigan.
No but I’ve nearly passed out. Guess I’m not a puker (keeps the bike cleaner though).
I did a 3 person TTT last year where one of my team mates did though and I was the guy on the back at the time…
I used to race with a guy who’d start kacking with 10 miles to go. Not the effort, must have been mental. I also remember feeling ill during crits and hard road efforts when I was young. I can bury myself and not really feel ill, but I know how to eat and how hard to go if my tummy is full. As for the TT, I can bring my heart rate well into the red and against my threshold and feel fine. I also find it not to really increase my speed in the end. If I leave a few beats cushion, I’m able to tackle little inclines or winds that are varying better. I do my weekly TT right below my max and somedays you fly, somedays you die. I’ve been losing time each week for about a month no matter how aero I try to be, that first one was so good I could have sat up and gone fast. As years have gone by I also don’t get bothered by food as much either, I can go out after a big meal and keep everything in check. Perhaps a crit after a pizza may make a mess, but I’m smarter than that.
I am not a “puker”, but can routinely get to the threshold of puking during a TT effort. In fact, as I said in another post, I can gauge my effort by this. I can taste it in the back of my throat. I guess for some of us it just throws your system for a loop when you’re going really, really hard. I usually taste it 3/4 of the way through the distance.
~Alan~
Puking has never happen to me while riding a bike at any effort. I have fallen over in pain, was crying like baby and couldn’t walk after a TT but not puking. Now running intervals on the track oh my, wanted to puke many times.
I’m a dry heaver - nothing ever comes out, but I’m going through the motions. Moreso on the sun than on the bike, but it does happen during bike intervals. Happens at the end of all run intervals as well, and at the end of hard run races.
Did puke in the ocean during IMFL 02 - swells baby. Swells…
Not me, yet but my first TT is tomorrow so I can tell you Friday, I will feel like a slacker if I don’t come close after reading about it this week.
I took my boy and his little sister to watch mommy finish a half mary a month ago, it must have been 5% kackers in the last quarter mile, heck of a mess.
Funniest was my first duathalon (off road in CO) a guy must have shown up 30 seconds after the gun sounded and he was just tearing through the crowd, we take the first turn at about a 1/4 mile and he is doubled over. I guess he wasn’t used to the 10k ft of elevation or something?
After taking several months off for work-related reasons, I showed up at my normal Saturday morning roadie group ride, where I had always been able to push the pace and even win a few sprints. Big mistake. I struggled for 40 miles, barely holding on to the back and flirting with my max HR on the hills. I dropped off the back just in time to puke several times (neon green Gatorade). I limped in the final 20 miles, alone, pale and lightheaded.
I can pee and puke on my bike without issue. I have puked at least 6 times in the last two years during riding. The first time I stopped and got off my bike to do it. After that I just lean over and do it. Rinse my mouth out with water and keep going. Usually it is from an extremely hard effort. Early season training is what does it when my training partners have a few months and I am coming off the couch.
Last time I puked was right after a TTT. I finished and then let it all come out. Then road back to the car and went home.
Well it was not while riding, but just after a really hard mtb race. Made it behind a trailer just past the finish line.
During the run at IMLP in 1999 and again through the last of the bike and the entire marathon in Kona the same year, I was hyponatremic (sp?) and rejecting everything I took in about every mile. Since then, on any longer rides or runs, I will occasionally projectile vomit whatever I have just taken in. It’s getting where I have just accepted it as a normal part of training. I continue to eat and drink, and there does not seem to be any definitive pattern to it.
I’ve never puked on the bike but I came damn close to puking on the run this Sunday at Wildflower when I saw the chunky guy in the devil garb and a black G-string at an aid station.
Once on the bike during the Chicago Triathlon, most likely due to ingested Lake Michigan.
I dry-heaved in T1 at the Chicago Triathlon. That is some pretty wicked water.
while riding or just looking at someone elses?