What is the detox time for an avid coffee drinker?

Triathlon Forum
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just quite cold turkey monday. no major headaches, just dead tired. i have been quietly jonesin’ for coffee at work all week. i even cut out the caffeine gels and i don’t drink soda. man i could use a pick me up…

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Dude, I hear cocaine is The Shit.

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just quite cold turkey monday. no major headaches, just dead tired. i have been quietly jonesin’ for coffee at work all week. i even cut out the caffeine gels and i don’t drink soda. man i could use a pick me up…Why on god’s green earth would you want to cut out coffee?

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i’m starting to question that also…

i figure if i can just get over this week then i will be back to feeling the effects!

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2-3 days
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I can go cold turkey on about anything, but would never ever give up my morning coffee. Pure enjoyment.

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2-3 days

But it seems like forever!!
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Define “avid”. 2 cups? 5 cups? and are we talking some Peets hard stuff or Folgers Crystals?

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Coffee is good for you–cuts down on the prostate cancer risk, colon issues, urinary track issues. Keep drinking it

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and one side benefit, speaking as a non coffee drinker here, is that your breath stinks and it discolors your teeth!!

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I went cold turkey for about 4 days. The migraine headaches were unbearable so I jumped back on. The only time I am able to detox is when I visit my parents and can do nothing but sleep for a few days. Of course as soon as I go back to work I start up again.

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Infinity.

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Carl Spackler summed up one big difference between triathletes and cyclists is that triathletes quit coffee or taper off of it … and cyclists can’t get enough.

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Carl Spackler summed up one big difference between triathletes and cyclists is that triathletes quit coffee or taper off of it … and cyclists can’t get enough.

Well I’m a cyclist and happy to add n=1 data point to Spackler’s body of evidence. The only thing I’ve heard is that some people tapering off of caffeine (cyclists and triathletes) so that they get a bigger bump from it when they use it on race day. I’m curious, what is the logic and why is it different between the two groups?

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Carl Spackler summed up one big difference between triathletes and cyclists is that triathletes quit coffee or taper off of it … and cyclists can’t get enough.

Well I’m a cyclist and happy to add n=1 data point to Spackler’s body of evidence. The only thing I’ve heard is that some people tapering off of caffeine (cyclists and triathletes) so that they get a bigger bump from it when they use it on race day. I’m curious, what is the logic and why is it different between the two groups?

I used to do this, for my A races, back in the day. Don’t know if it “worked” or not, but I did it.
Then I went to Kona, and was like, “They have Kona coffee in Kona. There is NO F’N WAY I am not drinking Kona coffee while in KONA”
So I gave up giving it up, and have lived happily ever after.
The End.

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So I gave up giving it up, and have lived happily ever after.
The End.

love

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Moderation in moderation.

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Two things that are on my do not give up list:

  1. Coffee
  2. Sex
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Two things that are on my do not give up list:

  1. Coffee
  2. Sex

I’ll fix that for you:

  1. sex
  2. coffee
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Nope, gotta have coffee first.