track racing and water intake
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track racing and water intake
Postby PawPaw » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:14 pm
Presume the final time will be ~50mins.
Does anyone have insight into pre-race hydration strategies for this race?
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby alex » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:37 pm
but there is only so much pre hydrating you can actually do, they will all be p*ssing brown syrup after that one
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:43 pm
In other words, I don't know, but it was a bloody good race. Jackson Law did an excellent job for silver.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby PawPaw » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:14 am
yeah the sweat was dripping off all of em. the wood must get a bit slippery for it.alex wrote:sometimes they put lemon slices up their sleeves to help with the dry mouth
but there is only so much pre hydrating you can actually do, they will all be p*ssing brown syrup after that one
this is one of those events that would benefit from experimenting with preloading a high sodium drink. the sodium assists kidney resorption of fluid, thereby reducing rate of urine production.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby brentono » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:54 pm
You got me...PawPaw wrote:Just watching the mens 40km points race on SBS and note the guys don't carry water.
hydration strategies ... is a fad. IMO
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Postby PawPaw » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:21 pm
50 years ago, many thought the same about drinking anything during a half and full marathon. They thought it was better to condition the body to adapt to needing less water. And steak was thought to be the best food for endurance. How fortunate for the scientific method, which continues to expose the entombed truth, even if by the painfully slow removal of one brick at a time.brentono wrote:You got me...PawPaw wrote:Just watching the mens 40km points race on SBS and note the guys don't carry water.
hydration strategies ... is a fad. IMO
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby brentono » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:44 pm
Re-hydration after a Track event is a given.
Handing bidons in a longer Track event is difficult
(though Stall Gift runners could be used at some events)
Excess fluids can be as dangerous, as lesser.
Training to require lesser fluids may work better than
a scientific method of requiring constant intakes.
(to maintain a balance causes an imbalance)
Individuals require different methods, science sometimes
becomes ALL-encompassing, and in some cases wrong. FME.
"entombed truth" envokes an interesting take, what "truth" is that?
Right or wrong hydration is an individual choice. We are all different.
Just a few of my thoughts, relating to Track Cycling.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby tallywhacker » Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:08 pm
30 years ago I had a soccer coach (ex Hungarian national player) who wouldn't let us drink for an hour after training for the same reason. He either conditioned us well or scared the bejezuz out of us because I don't ride with a water bottle (don't even have a cage on my bikes) and only drink a couple of glasses of water during the dayPawPaw wrote:50 years ago, many thought the same about drinking anything during a half and full marathon. They thought it was better to condition the body to adapt to needing less water. And steak was thought to be the best food for endurance. How fortunate for the scientific method, which continues to expose the entombed truth, even if by the painfully slow removal of one brick at a time.brentono wrote:You got me...PawPaw wrote:Just watching the mens 40km points race on SBS and note the guys don't carry water.
hydration strategies ... is a fad. IMO
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:36 pm
He was an idiot and going without fluid for extended periods is foolish, especially in the heat.tallywhacker wrote:30 years ago I had a soccer coach (ex Hungarian national player) who wouldn't let us drink for an hour after training for the same reason. He either conditioned us well or scared the bejezuz out of us because I don't ride with a water bottle (don't even have a cage on my bikes) and only drink a couple of glasses of water during the day
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby foo on patrol » Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:07 pm
Some of these meets I would ride a 800mtr, 1000mtr handicaps with qualifiying heats and a 10k scratch race prior to a 20 or 30k points score, sprinting
every 1600mtrs.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby mikedufty » Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:03 pm
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro ... ge/3321026 - click show transcript to read the interview.
One quote
"We've just finished a study with heat acclimatisation or heat acclimation, we've been doing it in a laboratory environment and we dehydrated people every day during heat acclimation and we got indication that there was a better heat acclimation if we dehydrated them every day than if we didn't. And that flies in the face of the sports medicine guidelines, if guidelines ever speak to hydration. So, we think that the guidelines regarding hydration and carbohydrate and electrolyte requirements may need at least some fine-tuning."
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby PawPaw » Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:10 pm
My money is on the fine tuning being very fine.mikedufty wrote:Interesting interview with Dr Jim Cotter
There's indisputable evidence performance suffers with acute negative fluid balance.
And there's a lot of phenomena that haven't been explored - compromised peristalsis and bowel evacuation, vulnerability of drier mucous membranes to opportunistic infection (cold flu), compromised bronchial mucociliary escalator, malabsorption due to drier intestinal mucosa, elevated rate of microtrauma to drier intestinal lining contributing to loss of iron, higher rate of arterial wall damage due to significant (15%+) blood volume reduction, accelerated joint cartilage wear due to underperfusion with water, accelerated microtrauma of muscle fibre due to drier state.
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Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:41 am
This.PawPaw wrote:There's indisputable evidence performance suffers with acute negative fluid balance.
As for heat acclimation, that's a red herring.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby brentono » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:44 am
It covers in more detail, exactly the point I was making (particularly relevant to Track Cycling)
"And when you see adverts from the sports drink people apply the cowshite filter." +1It plays into the hands of the sports drink industry to have us believe that good hydration - good hydration meaning adequate or you hydration, normal body water is essential for sport performance. But there's actually no evidence to indicate strongly that dehydration facilitates heat stroke or muscle meltdown
These days it's about "greed"... so just follow the money trail.
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Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:27 pm
I think that's been true throughout recorded human history, not just these daysbrentono wrote:These days it's about "greed"... so just follow the money trail.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby brentono » Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:26 am
And throughout recorded human history, fresh water has been the drink of re-hydration.
And it's only been recently, that they can get away with charging $3 a bottle for it.
Just Saying.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby PawPaw » Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:49 pm
let's have a look at recorded historybrentono wrote:True Alex
And throughout recorded human history, fresh water has been the drink of re-hydration.
And it's only been recently, that they can get away with charging $3 a bottle for it.
Just Saying.
- the first guy to run a marathon dropped dead shortly after.
- mankind have continued to run marathons quicker than in the decade before. thus athletes who follow advice from 50-100 years ago, would not be competitive today.
- as far as can be determined by science, human longevity has progressively improved for at least the last 20 centuries.
- mankind have never had as much leisure time as those in developed nations, and never have so many had the opportunity to push themselves in endurance events.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby brentono » Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:41 pm
FYI most of the fastest marathon runners come from developing nations, mostly Africa
with little or no access to the latest scientific hydration strategies.
Or even easily accessible clean water supplies.
Conditioning the body to adapt to needing less water seems to still work for them.
Why don't we talk about track racing and water intake, since this is a Cycling site.
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Re: track racing and water intake
Postby sogood » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:00 pm
Why did you say that? Would it apply to 1960 or 2012?brentono wrote:FYI most of the fastest marathon runners come from developing nations, mostly Africa
with little or no access to the latest scientific hydration strategies.
Or even easily accessible clean water supplies...
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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