Colorado State Triathlon Coach here with a quick poll to see just how widespread the negative health effects have been this week since racing at USAT Collegiate Nationals in Tempe Town Lake, Apr 4-5. We started with one of our teammates not even able to fly back home Monday AM with vomiting all night long which we attributed to the random food poisoning…and another teammate who was up quite often with stomach cramps. Since getting back home last 72 hours, about 10-12 have experienced a whole range of nasty details you may not want to read about.
Any other schools out there with similar stories? Before I address this with USAT or the RD…I’d like to get a pulse on how widespread the problems.
I coach NC State and we had 10 athletes go and race, and non have let me know of them being sick, yet. A few in the later waves only got in water for the swim (no swim warm up), had 4 that raced both days, and those did swim warm ups each day as well.
You may wish to investigate through the regular Phoenix community/schools as to any winter diarrhea/stomach flu circulating in the community. I am in Tucson, and currently much of the community is going through exactly what you describe, affecting all ages with about a 1 day latency period, and lasting around 1 day. Hope your athletes recover soon.
No stomach issues but I’ve been sick since the day of the race. Still sick. I’ve had a fever, chills, fatigue, and dry cough. Nothing terrible. You guys killed it out there though!
You may wish to investigate through the regular Phoenix community/schools as to any winter diarrhea/stomach flu circulating in the community. I am in Tucson, and currently much of the community is going through exactly what you describe, affecting all ages with about a 1 day latency period, and lasting around 1 day. Hope your athletes recover soon.
There’s something going around. Hit me like a truck Sunday afternoon, threw up for the first time (non race) in a few years. Been sporadic dropouts from the staff at work all week.
Wisconsin had 1/27 develop food poisoning-like symptoms on Sunday (during our 30 hour drive home, of course). To my knowledge that was the only issue with us. I did all 3 races and had no adverse effects. Seems like anyone would be fine unless maybe they drank a ton of the water.
Wanting to keep this discussion going for those racing in Tempe in the near future…
We (Ohio State) had one athlete develop the same symptoms described above early Sunday afternoon and struggled to fly home that night, and another fall ill during the flight Sunday night during which extended throught Monday AM.
This happened to me a year ago in 2013 when I raced the Collegiate Nationals but might be still relevant. Got food poisoning-like symptoms late Sunday afternoon in the middle of a transatlantic flight. So I spent the rest of my flight throwing up in the lavatory. Thought that it could’ve been caused by the food served in the plane, but now that I look at it based on the stories on this thread it might’ve been something else…
I am the coach for Cleveland State University (the other CSU!). We had no problems with any of our athletes. One had a sinus infection that hit her after the race but she had that brewing before race day.
