Ate some Soreen dried malt-loaf out of the fridge this morning and then
headed out for a ten-mile ride. The first mile was a long gradual
uphill which these days I can do 90% of it, the last 10% with an
increasing gradient that finishes me every time.
On the steep downhill that followed I started to notice a slight cramp
feeling in my stomach. I normally get that at the -end- of a ride if
I've drunk slightly too much water, but only a tiny bit of H20 had
passed my lips at this early stage. I thought nothing of it.
But a few minutes later on the tarmac road which has a very short but
very steep uphill section which I can just about make every time. When
I reached the summit something was wrong, I felt slightly nauseous. A
steep downhill followed by a similar short-steep uphill on gravel which
I made up, and now I really did feel sick.
The sickness stayed with me to the bottom of that gradient and the
third gradient which always finishes me off again... feeling as though
I would actually vomit any minute I dismounted to see if the sick
feeling would go away.
It didn't. Not even as I began to push the muni up the hill.
I rested some more. Nothing was going to come out of my mouth I don't
think, but the nausea was still there. After five minutes sitting on
the ground in thorough indecision, I turned round and pushed the muni
all of the 1.5 miles back to the car.
Of course by the time I pulled out of the car park the sickness feeling
had gone, but I was demotivated enough to just drive home and forget
about the whole thing.
I've eaten before a ride several times, sometimes Soreen and sometimes
flapjack, and I've never had this feeling before, so I'm really as a
loss as to what happened. Was it because I mixed in some orange juice?
Was it because I rode about twice as fast as I usually did at the
start? Was it because I had a curry last night?
Has anyone else had a feeling of food sickness during muni or indeed
any other physical exercise? Were you able to figure out exactly what
triggered it, or is nausea during physical exercise a normal thing?
--
gkmac
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, take the pictures." - tomblackwood
"As it only hurts when you walk, will you be riding everywhere now?" -
mikepenton
"Well, not everything is as practical as making your cranks flip around
I guess." - Brian MacKenzie
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