PSA : Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

Hope the second one passes painlessly.

Heal up and will you be able to race? You have trained hard and smart. Your folks are on the bike course..hope you will be okay come race day! 

Oh he!! no! That is why I am having another CT scan tomorrow just to make sure that they are all gone.

Reminds me of a few years ago when Tim Deboom pulled out on the run in Kona as he was passing a kidney stone.  Well, "pulled out" maybe doesn't describe it...more like, "collapsed into an ambulance".  Looked like he was in a serious world of hurt!  Ouch!

-Steve 

I'm guessing you missed a few training days?  Fortunately it happened in our taper period not during the peak training. 

I have my own horror story.  Last Wednesday I was bucking hay with my wife and pulled/strained a muscle in my back.  The next day I had to literally roll out of bed becuase I could not stand up.  I missed 3 days of work and have not worked out (anything) for 7 consecutive days now!  My back still hurts but mobility is slowly coming back. 

Anyway, kindey stones and back injury certainly were not on our training plans.  See ya'll next week!

~Mike

I have/had 5 of them, 3 in one, 2 in the other.  I know for sure at least 2 have passed, and hopefully 3 or 4 (based on the feelings I've had, with none as intense as the first one which landed me in the ER).  My indicator that they were flaring up and causing issues was blood in my urine after each run ......

Yeah, they suck big time.  One of the main reasons I try to drink a lot of fluids all day long.  I don't want to have them be an issue again.

[Bill Clinton voice]I feel your pain.[/Bill Clinton voice]

Sorry to hear about the kidney stones but glad you're ok.

It's really an adjustment when the heat & humidity skyrocket , you just don't realize how much more it takes to stay hydrated. A 40 mile ride in May was 2 24 oz bottles, a 40 mile ride this weeekend was at least double that.

Went through 24 ozs of water today on a 6 mile run & could have had more...be careful out there!

This is a great question and one that my urologist tap danced around when I asked him. He told me that the stones form over a long period of time and that mine were most probably as a result of chronic dehydration (a common occurance for the endurace athlete), however (and this is what I really think happened to me) they can form quicker in instances where your core temp is high for a long period of time (think fever or training in 100* for hours at a time on multiple days). The bottom line is until I catch the little bastard when it comes out and let them analyze it, we can only speculate.

Again, drink, drink, drink!!!

considering i sweat like a pig (though drink lots too) and my pa had em, sounds like somethign to reallly look forward to.  hizzah!  seriously, hope you feel better soon.  yikes!