How many of you stop and for how long to fuel/ hydrate during the 10K postal swim? What do you drink if anything?
I can't decide if I should do this and when in the race. Is it allowed? I barely made it through the hour swim (and did just over 5,000 yds) last year.
Thanks for any thoughts!
I am not sure if you guys saw this, but I wrote an article on hydration that appeared in Swimmer. There are multiple myths about what constitutes proper hydration, many of these stoked by the bottled water association (which I am personally hopeful will be eventually recognized as the greatest marketing scam of the late 20th century. As one scientist put it, it's no accident that Evian is Naive spelled backwards.)
Among others, I interviewed Ann Grandjean, a nutritionist for the US Olympic teams, who concluded, among other things, that caffeine is NOT a diuretic in anybody who uses it regularly. Even in caffeine-naive individuals, it is only very mildly diuretic--not that water mongers would have us believe this.
Moreover, advice like "drink till your urine runs clear" is more likely to cause cramps, not stave them off, by flushing your body of electrolytes.
If anyone would like to see a .pdf of my article, send me a private message with your email address and I will send it to you. It was posted somewhere on the magazine's site, but I can't find it anymore.
I am not sure if you guys saw this, but I wrote an article on hydration that appeared in Swimmer. There are multiple myths about what constitutes proper hydration, many of these stoked by the bottled water association (which I am personally hopeful will be eventually recognized as the greatest marketing scam of the late 20th century. As one scientist put it, it's no accident that Evian is Naive spelled backwards.)
Among others, I interviewed Ann Grandjean, a nutritionist for the US Olympic teams, who concluded, among other things, that caffeine is NOT a diuretic in anybody who uses it regularly. Even in caffeine-naive individuals, it is only very mildly diuretic--not that water mongers would have us believe this.
Moreover, advice like "drink till your urine runs clear" is more likely to cause cramps, not stave them off, by flushing your body of electrolytes.
If anyone would like to see a .pdf of my article, send me a private message with your email address and I will send it to you. It was posted somewhere on the magazine's site, but I can't find it anymore.
