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Originally posted by aviatrix802 Kind of skipping my short brick today to get my tri bike in for his new rear derailleur, cassette, and chain rings. LBS happened to have the hydration set-up I was eyeballing so that's going on too and I'm having the guy flip my aerobar mounts to give me another inch. I have a torn labrum in my right shoulder (yes, DQ!) and after about 20 miles the super close aerobars really start to bother it so I'm moving them about an inch and hopefully that will help. MT may wait until Friday as it looks like they are going to have rain all day tomorrow. It will rain here Friday so that's a good tradeoff. Good swim (3,300 yds) and bike yesterday with some hill repeats on the bike. I think this hill I play on should be good practice for MT but I'll know better once I see MT. Had a weird thing happen on my initial downhill starting my ride. My heart started jumping around then settled. When I looked later it showed over 200 beats/minute! Heck I've never been over 180 (maybe even 170) while training hard. It was weird. I continued on and was totally fine and did my hill repeats but it was like a "thrill" beat you'd feel when you jump out of a plane skydiving or topping the hill of a crazy roller coaster. No reason for it and it was right in the first few minutes when I wasn't even pedaling hard. Definitely staying away from the burritos I had the night before!

I've had this happen periodically with my Garmin strap. The day after IMMT I went for a recovery ride and coming down a hill, not pedalling, my HR started climbing up and up, hitting 190. I thought I was having a heart attack. After a few seconds of panic I decided to double check the strap. I moved it around a little and suddenly my HR dropped back down to 110. Still 20bpm higher than what it was, but I figure that was a result of panicking.. :P  

I would expect a sudden jump in HR, if there really is something wrong physiologically, to have shortness of breath, tingling, chest tightness, dizziness, light-headedness, and other classic signs of cardiac problems accompany the elevated HR. 

Lol. I didn't see as many Trump lawn signs in Vermont as I saw in Nashville so I think that's a good sign. Although driving home through New York I saw a huge piece of plywood propped up at the end of someone's driveway with, "Trump in the White House, Hillary in the big House, Bernie in the nuthouse." spray painted on it. I thought that was kind of clever and amusing (but still kinda scary). 

It depends what you mean by cramps. If its a muscle thing, that's usually the result of not being acclimated to the distance/duration of your training rides/runs. 

It's possible you're ramping up in volume or intensity (or both) too quickly (e.g. jumping from a 5km run to a 12km run when you haven't done any 8-10km runs yet) or being inconsistent in the frequency of your longer/rides runs (e.g. doing a long ride one week, doing shorter workouts for a few weeks and then doing another long ride/run). 

Well off camping tonight to the mountains for 4 nights! Truck, trailer and 8 bikes! Going to be a great weekend of road/mtn. biking, hiking, running and beers by the fire! 4 hours of work left... :-)

They have a portion of the hwy through the mountains closed until middle of june due to high mountain pass/animals that tons of bikers get the road to themselves.

http://www.hikebiketravel.com/31513/biking-the-highest-paved-road-in-canada/

Originally posted by firebert  Apologies if this is apparent or something you've tried, but usually the first source of muscle cramps esp legs is electrolyte imbalance. Do you just drink water for your workouts or something else? Also for nutrition - more bananas and oranges

That's actually a myth. There's been dozens of studies done on this and none of them have identified a correlation between cramps and electrolyte imbalance.

bengreenfieldfitness. com /2013/09/ways-to-stop-muscle-cramps/

(for some reason the link keeps getting cut so to get there remove the spaces in the above link. 

Originally posted by firebert

Originally posted by adempsey10

Originally posted by firebert  Apologies if this is apparent or something you've tried, but usually the first source of muscle cramps esp legs is electrolyte imbalance. Do you just drink water for your workouts or something else? Also for nutrition - more bananas and oranges

That's actually a myth. There's been dozens of studies done on this and none of them have identified a correlation between cramps and electrolyte imbalance.

bengreenfieldfitness. com /2013/09/ways-to-stop-muscle-cramps/

(for some reason the link keeps getting cut so to get there remove the spaces in the above link. 

That's really interesting actually. I've never dealt with cramps much personally, and have always hydrated with nuun or something similar so never really thought about it more than that. From a physiology background the correlation made a lot of sense to me - the calcium/sodium/potassium channels play a major role in muscle contraction. Then again thinking more about it, cramps may not be related at all to a slowing or insufficient supply of Ca/Na/K through the channels - rather that would seem more likely to cause lack of performance, rather than muscle cramping. Great discussion! Alan - any words for Greg Daniel and his pickle juice for races? LOL!! http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/05/rider-diaries/pickle-juice-a...

Lol. The pickle juice thing made me raise an eyebrow but the rest of the information has good sources associated with it so that's why I shared that one in particular. I don't endorse pickle juice for anything (I hate pickles) and I can't imagine what a warm bottle of pickle juice would taste like while out riding on a hot day... yack... :P 

Originally posted by drfoodlove

Originally posted by adempsey10

Originally posted by aviatrix802 Kind of skipping my short brick today to get my tri bike in for his new rear derailleur, cassette, and chain rings. LBS happened to have the hydration set-up I was eyeballing so that's going on too and I'm having the guy flip my aerobar mounts to give me another inch. I have a torn labrum in my right shoulder (yes, DQ!) and after about 20 miles the super close aerobars really start to bother it so I'm moving them about an inch and hopefully that will help. MT may wait until Friday as it looks like they are going to have rain all day tomorrow. It will rain here Friday so that's a good tradeoff. Good swim (3,300 yds) and bike yesterday with some hill repeats on the bike. I think this hill I play on should be good practice for MT but I'll know better once I see MT. Had a weird thing happen on my initial downhill starting my ride. My heart started jumping around then settled. When I looked later it showed over 200 beats/minute! Heck I've never been over 180 (maybe even 170) while training hard. It was weird. I continued on and was totally fine and did my hill repeats but it was like a "thrill" beat you'd feel when you jump out of a plane skydiving or topping the hill of a crazy roller coaster. No reason for it and it was right in the first few minutes when I wasn't even pedaling hard. Definitely staying away from the burritos I had the night before!

I've had this happen periodically with my Garmin strap. The day after IMMT I went for a recovery ride and coming down a hill, not pedalling, my HR started climbing up and up, hitting 190. I thought I was having a heart attack. After a few seconds of panic I decided to double check the strap. I moved it around a little and suddenly my HR dropped back down to 110. Still 20bpm higher than what it was, but I figure that was a result of panicking.. :P  

I would expect a sudden jump in HR, if there really is something wrong physiologically, to have shortness of breath, tingling, chest tightness, dizziness, light-headedness, and other classic signs of cardiac problems accompany the elevated HR. 

Not that I think Jenn is having a heart attack, but note that the symptoms of heart attacks are often very different in women than men. We commonly experience the classic chest pain, but more often we have the secondary symptoms like deferred pain in the back, jaw, elsewhere. I find that many people (women included) don't know that there are different presentations for women, so I point them out as often as possible (http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HeartAttack/WarningSignsofaHeartAttack/Heart-Attack-Symptoms-in-Women_UCM_436448_Article.jsp#.V1B2pyGlrIA).

That is super useful to know! Thanks Gretchen. I didn't realize that the symptoms were that different between men and women. 

That's ALWAYS a good goal.  :-)