I've noticed this blogging convention, which is to end each post with a question to get your readers to comment. I don't do that.
UPDATE: Just as a clarification, I don't mean to suggest that people who do this are artificially fishing for comments. I assume bloggers who do this genuinely want other people's input and want to start a conversation.
Not that I don't welcome your comments. I love your comments. Even if you call me bad names (would that I was so lucky as the Angry Runner to be called the c-word).
But today, I do have a question for you: have you ever run so hard that you threw up after?
The Gridiron Classic 4m in Central Park happened on Superbowl Sunday, and it seems like every single person I follow on twitter who ran this race ended up puking after.
I've only thrown up after running once. It was many years ago, during the summer, and I was training for one of my first marathons. I'd gone out for an easy 6-8m, but midway through I ran into a friend from high school and my 6m became 12m. I didn't have any water on me, so we stopped to buy something to drink. The vending machine only had that gross V-8 juice that is supposed to taste like fruit, and I couldn't drink it. So when I got home, parched, I chugged as much pink lemonade as my mother had in her refrigerator and promptly threw it all up.
I don't think that really counts as throwing up from running hard. I think my body was just rejecting the V-8 (I mean, seriously, so gross).
What about you?
UPDATE: Just as a clarification, I don't mean to suggest that people who do this are artificially fishing for comments. I assume bloggers who do this genuinely want other people's input and want to start a conversation.
Not that I don't welcome your comments. I love your comments. Even if you call me bad names (would that I was so lucky as the Angry Runner to be called the c-word).
But today, I do have a question for you: have you ever run so hard that you threw up after?
The Gridiron Classic 4m in Central Park happened on Superbowl Sunday, and it seems like every single person I follow on twitter who ran this race ended up puking after.
I've only thrown up after running once. It was many years ago, during the summer, and I was training for one of my first marathons. I'd gone out for an easy 6-8m, but midway through I ran into a friend from high school and my 6m became 12m. I didn't have any water on me, so we stopped to buy something to drink. The vending machine only had that gross V-8 juice that is supposed to taste like fruit, and I couldn't drink it. So when I got home, parched, I chugged as much pink lemonade as my mother had in her refrigerator and promptly threw it all up.
I don't think that really counts as throwing up from running hard. I think my body was just rejecting the V-8 (I mean, seriously, so gross).
What about you?
I never have thrown up, but have heard stories of lots of people who do. I guess I don't run long enough!
ReplyDeleteI have been using the platform of asking questions for a long time on my blog. I really like to hear what people think about things (i.e. I am not doing it to fish for comments). I think I should have been a sociologist or something.
Thanks, Kim! I'll admit, part of the reason I don't do this is that I fear I don't have enough readers to sustain the conversation that would result. That, and blogger not allowing threaded comments makes it annoying.
ReplyDeleteBut as for throwing up, I think I don't run hard enough is probably part of my problem.
Thanks for the clarification! ;)
ReplyDeleteWhen IS blogger going to allow threaded comments? I wonder if there is a plug-in for that or something!
And I meant "hard" enough too, not "long" enough. D'oh. It's early and I am half asleep!
Never thrown up after a run or race. Never ever came close either. Seems like so many other people claim they have, and since I can't, I'm officially jealous :)
ReplyDeleteUhm, does throwing up during a mountain marathon count? It was during, not after...
ReplyDeleteYes. It most certainly counts.
ReplyDeleteNo puking here, just repeated dry-heaving once after the Gridiron you mentioned. First time ever and it caught me completely by surprise. And I didn't even manage a PR which was a disappointment. I would've puked for a PR.
ReplyDeleteLots of people puke during ultras, though I've never seen it or done it. Was the scene at the Gridiron Classic anything like the barforama in "Stand By Me"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2gjL-KUqw
ReplyDeleteI am NOT going to watch that clip. Stand By Me was my brother's favorite movie growing up, and there were many, many chants of "Boom baba, Boom baba" when I was a kid. I'm still haunted by the ghost of Ray Brower.
ReplyDeleteNever even had so much as an upset stomach during a run (well, a couple of ill-advised spicy dinners night before that had me running for the bathroom). I must not work hard enough.
ReplyDeleteI almost, but not quite, hurl at the end of every 5k I ever run. Not for longer races though. I think it is the intense exertion of a 5k. Always interesting to see the expressions on peoples faces as they try to get out of the way.
ReplyDeletenope. i have a stomach of steal. i've *wanted* to puke before though...and my goal is to race so i feel that way. so i guess i'm good on that front :)
ReplyDeleteI slept in for the Grid Iron and am now super glad I did. I have never thown up. I just don't think I am hard core enough.
ReplyDeleteI once threw up in high school after a race - but it was the 600 meters, during indoor track. And let me tell you, sprinting a 600 meter race on a 200 meter track when it's stifling inside and there's no air and your meet starts at 7pm so you had to eat something heavier than you wanted to after school so you didn't die....
ReplyDeleteIt leads to vomiting.
But after a distance race? Never. Sometimes I've thought I might, and once during a 10k I almost did, but no.
I've never puked after running but I did puke once in college after my first mile race. All over the block. And I got right back in the pool to wait for the rest of my heat to finish. Got to be a good sportsman. Maybe I need to work harder too?
ReplyDeleteJust once, when I was in high school. I was taking the physical fitness test for entrance into the Air Force Academy and the last thing was a shuttle run. I didn't quite make the cutoff, but I tried really, really damn hard. After I finished the run I kept running right into the bathroom which was, blessedly, located right at the end of the gym.
ReplyDelete(I didn't end up at the Academy, but for reasons totally unrelated to my sprinting abilities.)
I AM ONE LUCKY BITCH!!! Err...cunt.
ReplyDeleteI threw up after the Boilermaker in '03.
And it was my fault. It was oddly cool that day and I probably could have gotten away without drinking, but like an idiot, I took water like I would have on an 80 degree day. I could hear it sloshing in my stomach by mile 7 and wisely cut back...but it was too late. When I crossed the finish line I walked about 100 meters then realized what was going to happen. I then puked up the water into a trash can in front of a few hundred spectators who cringed appropriately. It was swell.
I immediately replaced those fluids with beer.
Never from running, but twice after really hard rowing workouts (but as with your experience, I think it was more related to inappropriate fueling than to the effort).
ReplyDeleteI think in terms of pushing yourself so hard that you "x," there are two camps: the pukers and the fainters. I'm more of a fainter. Scarier (I think), but not as messy.
Ew, vomit! I never actually threw up. I almost hurled during the Mini 10k in 2009, though, around mile 5. But that's mostly because I ate a croissant for breakfast on the way to the race. Clearly too much butter for racing.
ReplyDeleteMy first half marathon, after crossing the finish line, so embarrassed!! Felt sorry for the kids that watched me puke but since then I haven't thrown up. I marked it as beginner nerves and the lack of truly understanding what it means to get your training miles in before a race.
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