So a wierd thing happened to me last night..
This won't be your average tale of what happens on new years.. Monkey and I
went and ran 11 miles. The course we ran was part of a 10 mile route I used
to run, basically from my house down to N.W. 39th Avenue, then west towards
Santa Fe. We just tacked on an extra mile to the course. We left Casa
Sallots at 5:15pm.
It's a pretty nice run, about 4 miles into the run you hit a nice stretch of
hills which keep you working, which is always a good thing when doing a longer
training run. As I mentioned, I used to run 10 miles of this stretch 2 to 3
times a week. I also used to run it quite a bit faster (80 minutes as opposed
to 95 minutes)...
While running yesterday, my blood pressure dropped pretty low. I have no idea
what caused this physiological response, but I nearly passed out taking a
shower right after the run. Thinking the worst had passed, I went to meet up
with Monkey for dinner. But, because the place was closed, I just headed to
Schlotzky's to pick up a drive-thru sandwich.
Still feeling like crap, I continued home. By the time I pulled into the
driveway at the house I knew I was going to throw up, and I quickly made my
way into the bathroom where I emptied the contents of my stomach.
So, I'm not entirely sure what happened to me. It's possible the BP drop was
in response to a blood sugar drop -- I had only eaten a piece of toast and a
whopper junior without mayo throughout the course of the day, and during the
run I only drank a little bit of water. It's also possible the drop was due
to dehydration -- before the run I had only drunk about 0.5l of water for the
entire day, and during the run I drank an additional 0.5l of water. Probably
not enough fluids for running 1:45 minutes on a warm (60's) Florida evening.
After throwing up, I drank some water, ate my sandwich and went to bed. I woke
up 6 hours later and feel much better.
Posted at: 07:47 on 02/01/2004
[ /diary ]
#
Older articles (2024): 
