Throwing Up after running!!!

I'm no doctor, so I have no idea as to physiological response or whatever.

But I know, from personal experience, that pushing too hard for too long leads to puking.  If you are feeling queasy at the end, I'd first try to run at an easier rate.  If that doesn't solve it, then I'd look at nutrition.  If there's nothing that stands out there, I'd go see a doc.

Could be any of a few things.

- running too hard for your current level of run fitness
- running in the heat sometimes makes me nauseous
- one of my teammates used to just have a weak stomach and would be ill for no apparent reason
- ate something a little too heavy for breakfast / lunch / dinner
- drank too much fluid or wrong type of fluid

And some more that I'm definitely forgetting. 

I don't have that throwing up feeling but often when I stop working or but more often racing, I start coughing like crazy. I have been told it is due in part to the difference in effort level..trying to push hard to finish then boom I'm done and stop thus the difference causes me to cough.

Do you train with heart rate moniter? Have you done any testing to set heart rate zones? That is how you could tell if you are running to hard to often.

I'd have to go with Scout here - I'm not an expert runner, but I do know that if I push myself too hard, I feel like puking. And for those of us who are new at this, it's easy to overdo it. As I've gotten a teeny bit faster, at least with shorter runs, that puke-threshhold has raised itself a bit. The speed that used to make me feel pukey does not anymore. A good way I've been able to gauge it is that if you start to feel slightly pukey during the run, slow down a tad. And yeah, it shouldn't be happening on every run. It only happens to me when I do shorter distances and really push the pace.

I have runner friends who basically hurl after many many races because they push themselves so hard, for so long. But these are folks who've been doing it for years and years and they are weird and consider it a badge of honor. I am not quite that hardcore yet

I would say the nausea is a pretty good way to tell you're pushing too hard.

I do go through the coughing spell that you described after a really hard effort, but no puking... yet  

could be GI issues related to drink or food.  Are you taking gatorade down...that is different from HEED, which could be an easy fix.  Are you eating at dos burritos before the run...that is different than a gel shot or coffee.

Your stomach is bouncing the entire time you run...not so in swimming and biking.  If you were saying you were puking after an intense 1 mile or shorter I would say effort and body is not ready for it.  But if you are talking long runs, I would lean more towards diet.  

As a final note, aniexity can rear it's head this way, although that is usually before the race, but in college I used to puke mid test back when I was taking the Navy fitness test in ROTC.   They wanted us running it at sub 10:30 for the 1.5 mile test and I was borderline so I think it was just nerves...becasue that is the only time it happened.

Chronic and Proud Puker here,

I ran 400M in the college and HS and found that most of the hurling was due to most of the blood leaving your digestive track (going to the legs/arms)and then rushing back in after the event stops. No matter what I ate or didn't it would happen, I attribute most of this to an overly elevated HR, close to 200BPM at the time. However, I rarely notice that sensation on anything longer than a 5K possibly aerobic vs. anaerobic for a 5K kick or all out sprint in the shorter events?

Coughing it the body's natural way of slowing down the HR, not really sure as to how its effective, just that you will naturally cough when you HR is elevated.

When I was a frosh in HS a senior explained it to me this way, if you run hard sometimes you will feel like you are going to puke, you have 2 choices; puke now and feel like poop for 15 minutes or hold it in and feel like poop the rest of the day. 

Just like anything we do hard our bodies don't really want to be doing what we are telling it to, keep pushing, keep popping and you will get stronger and faster w/ time. 

Ask a doctor.  It is not normal to feeling like puking every time you run. 

After a race I usully feel like I will throw up, and a lot of times I do. I NEVER get to enjoy the food after a race, always too sick. I lthink it is from pushing it too hard. Didn't have that problem in my IM, but my pace was sooo slooow. 1/2 IM I push it hard so I am sick again.

I know if I were to go slower I wouldn't get sick, but I always want to do better.

So are there any other solutions?

After a race I usully feel like I will throw up, and a lot of times I do. I NEVER get to enjoy the food after a race, always too sick. I lthink it is from pushing it too hard. Didn't have that problem in my IM, but my pace was sooo slooow. 1/2 IM I push it hard so I am sick again.

I know if I were to go slower I wouldn't get sick, but I always want to do better.

So are there any other solutions?

For me I think my "system" is going so fast.  I never really throw.  But I gag like you would right before you throw.  Its a little embarasing.  After my last run a 6 year old was looking at me like "Daddy that man's sick".....

Once my heart rate comes down I'm fine.  usally just a few min...

I'll second (third, fourth...) what others have said.  Feeling like puking (or actually doing it) after a race is a sign that you've given it your all.  Well done.  During training, this is rarely a good thing.  So unless something really odd is going on, you are training too hard on the run and probably injury-bound if you don't slow down.

Most people, apart from the most highly trained cyclists and swimmers (or so I've heard -- I'm a runner, not a particularly good cyclist, and a terrible swimmer), cannot put out the same effort cycling or swimming as they can running.  That coupled with your admitted lack of love for running would explain why you don't get yourself to the point of puking while cycling or swimming.