No - I’m not talking about your training room.
I’m talking about your Z5c house of pain. The Red Room. That last mile, when you crack open that last cask of resolve, and pour it out on the ground, like blood on a shield. What’s it look like? Does your vison blur? Do you have numbness in your arm? Do you sound like a freight train, huffing and crashing by, scaring the twiggy runners in front of you? How long can you stay? Five minutes? Ten? Tell me about it.
I don’t really go there, so can’t be of any help to you…sorry
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my face sweats alot… or maybe those are tears?
I used to run 800m in track. It is a unique distance that imo hurts more than any other race. I remember going so deep that my gums would bleed - something to do with blood pressure going through the roof?
I’ve only been able to do this during 800m - no other race is fast enough while being long enough to have the same effect.
And no, it doesn’t have to do with poor hygiene!
Vision gets blurry, and basically it feels like you’re drowning.
Running and swimming, vision gets this blurred/streaky appearance (ie if you quickly look to the side while drunk)
Biking, I breath harder. Also I’m pretty sure I end up making a face of some type.
Rock climbing, doesn’t really have a pain cave, but during an individual hard/painful move I might grunt/scream a bit (although I try not to, esp in a rock gym, but it happens).
It’s actually not a pain cave for me until I cross the line. I do mostly sprint/oly and time trials, so it’s probably different from HIM or IM. When I can feel the finish line getting close I get that prickling feeling on the back of my neck from the shot of adrenaline. From that point on I kinda get tunnel vision, and I don’t really feel any pain. I just shut it out and go as hard as I can. I rationalized early on that I would pass out from the effort before I would die from it, so I may as well go all out. Now, once I cross the finish line it’s another story which usually involves holding back vomit and a lot of coughing.
I’ve always noticed that my mouth tastes of raw meat after I’ve been in the pain cave your refer to. I always figured it was b/c my body was essentially throwing anything an everything it could find into the furnace.
My pain cave looks like a cubicle in a row of the same, stuck in the corner of a production facility (as opposed to an office) - so there’s a tonne of ambient noise and yahoos yelling at each other, laughing and horsing around while I’m trying to conduct conference calls with hospital executives who’ve just spent a few million dollars and are experiencing their “oh shit - what do we do now?” moment. Luckily, I work from home most of the time these days so I don’t have to go in all that often.
I don’t know because I can’t see once I arrive but every trip there I vomit.