Bicarb for 14 year old daughter

If your daughter thinks she needs bicarb to win state, then you are teaching her she is not good enough to win on her own merit. Next she may wonder what other drugs can help her, or maybe she'll decide she needs to lose a ton of weight and have an eating disorder. This is a terrible precedent to start.

Also, if she beats another kid out of a state spot by a couple seconds it doesn't mean as much. It just mean she has more money to spend on the sport. I am sick of wealthy parents ruining high school athletics. Either she's got talent and knows how to work hard, or she doesn't. If her talent takes her pro then maybe she might consider bicarb.

Bicarb still seems a bit niche to me, everyone knows abt the advantages of shoes. Thing is, if those girls are better than her off the carb, chances are they are better than her on it. I think that was the point. But go off

bicarb is banned in horse racing.

there are identified downside risks, headaches, HBP, GI issues, dehydration, dosage. since it's a newer fad it's probably not well studied long term.

only a silly person would try something that could mess up their tummy at the biggest race of the season.

.....for the first time.....i mean

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1) Is she getting paid to run?

2) Is she going pro in the next year?

Do not efff with your daughter’s physiology at this stage. Way too young. Not worth even minuscule side effects.

You realize we are taking about baking soda, right?

Parents do that everyday with aspirin and a whole host of other drugs.

the underlining concept is messing with your gut and your ph introducing a base hoping it wards off lactic acid.

the GI symptoms is you mess around with your stomach acid with the wrong person or dosage and you will get vomiting, diarrhea, etc. then your kid gets to decide if they risk embarrassing themselves or do they DNS with GI problems.

this is controlled stuff done by elite athletes. and even then it's been done by some people like allie o where i am like, hmmmmm, short cut.

and to be clear i seriously doubt they do it the first time for the big race. i mean most of us for meets have our little set rhythms. meals, drinks, when we start getting ready. you don't change that up for the big day.

second thought, this isn't the 100m, a single second of seed time is nothing. if it was 5-10 seconds, that's different. but a single second in a 5-6 minute girls' race is nothing. you should be telling your kid that girl is no better than you, and you will kick her butt saturday, not telling her chemicals are the only chance. and then tell the girl to put in her practices and think tactics if she's raced the girl before.

short cut to me sounds like panic, desperation, weakness. that radiates to your kid. your kid needs to believe they can and will win. not be taking that "within the margin of error" PR blip like it's decisive. 1 second isn't even enough to change the game plan. that's you know who you have to beat and you don't let them get clear and you outkick them at the end, if they stay with you.

Horse racing in ALL Jurisdictions throughout the world is banned. It's called milk-shaking. It neutralizes the acid build up in the blood. Can't speed you up but lets you go at max speed for a much longer time.

Could you imagine the number of babies that should turn their parents in?

Are you willing to risk her pooping herself in front of all her friends?

It's not a "newer fad". Bicarb has been around for decades.

Obviously not "ALL" college distance runners are using it. But some are.

This guy has the best take, particularly the second part. At a recent meet I had to pull an athlete from a race due to the stress induced by parents who care too much. Over the last 5-10 years, a growing percentage of my coaching has been dedicated to trying to get my athletes to care LESS about their performance because of horribly high levels of performance anxiety. Don't contribute to that.

That's not true. There are a number of other legal things besides bicarb that can improve someone's performance.

Dad of two talented daughters chiming in.

As others have said, in no universe would anyone recommend doing something so new before a race that had any kind of importance attached to it. This isn't like switching from scrambled eggs to pancakes for breakfast.

From a personal perspective, I want my 13 year old to do well. I hope she qualifies for every state meet she can, but I also want to keep it low-key and simply fun at this stage in the game. Something like this runs counter-intuitively to that; but that's me. Even if my younger one wanted to try this, I would probably just remind her that making a state meet (especially an indoor one, of all things) in middle school may seem important, but it's not all that important. "Run your heart out and leave it all out on the track and I'll take you out to dinner later regardless of if you make it to state or not" would be my reply.

Save the seriousness for college. Hell, even with our 17 year old we try to dampen the uber-seriousness she sees all around her.

<Imagines a horse projectile diarrhea-ing after the race>