Subject: RE: I sweat more than a two dollar (fill in the blank) on nickle night I'm in your boat, and hope you find a better solution than I did - when I did a 70.3 last year in the summer heat, I drank 8L (4gal) over the 5 hours, but still ended up weighing in post-race 5-6lbs less than I did that morning. Didn't pee once, and that post-race weigh-in included post-race food. Also, I blew up on the run, but there's a possibility it was pacing-related. I carried 2 frame bottles on my bike, 1 aero bottle (total: 2L), and refilled with about 1.5L on the course. On the run, I partook in 1 water and 1 gatorade (assumed to be about 250-350mL total) at each of the 11 aid stations. I also had a full bottle of gatorade during T1 and T2. Post-race, I was pretty lightheaded and getting headrushes, which I fixed with more hydration. It is possible I wasn't getting enough salt, but I wasn't getting cramps, I was just dead and hot. During training, I've measured my loss rate at 2.0-2.5L/hr (1.3lbs/15 minutes) in summer temperatures, and my race was probably one of the hottest days all last summer. Solution: I'm just sticking to short races from now on. Edited by AHare 2012-05-24 6:45 PM
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