Running with a hangover - Can you really sweat it out? Should you run with a hangover?

Pro tip. Never start a thread with a hangover.

wow as I nearly fell out of my chair right now!

No amount of alcohol is safe or healthy

You got that right.

but running with a hangover seemed to make my hangover disappear.

or resuming drinking… getting drunk helped me get over my hangovers

wow

I'm glad you drink as much as me, Robert.

Good to have some company around here.

No amount of whining online is safe or healthy

never a big drinker, did one speed workout after a night out and that was the end of that.

however, i would have 3 pints the day before a race, it would take the edge off the going to war mental state, which ruined sleep.

this over hype before a race, that is fear, which is normal prep, but out of control it burns you out.

some guys are fine with it, until they come to something like an olympic games, when emotions go to a new level, and they can't rest, a new experience, and it ruins some.

some guys get quite nervous but sleep in the afternoon before the big one.

myself, i would tend to do well once the bigger thing was on, as it was kind of relaxing to finally be where you wanted, with the caveat. that it was small time stuff.

it's all mental. and something you can do through meditation, psychology, natural sedatives like magnesium at the right time, deep breathing.

back in the day, your coach helped, but you were on your own.

i actually enjoyed those 3 pints pre race, knowing it was good prep, and also i would not have any beer usually at all for a week or two. a form of discipline!

and avoid the real drag of over think, very very self annoying,

quit the sport before there was a better system in place.

This is clealy a white middle class problem.

Back in the day, me and my mates would be out on a bender most Friday and Saturday nights. Despite getting back late I would get up ay 6:00am in the morning and run at a nearby park where a lot of people ran. I'd usually do an easy five miles but it would be enough to get rid of most of the elements of the previous night's excess's. Fun times they were!

Henry Rono wasn't white middle class

In your early 20s you can sweat off a hangover.

Hit a certain age and running with a hangover makes it worse

Whine about crime and the economy but wanting to use harmful substances

I'm not going to make any judgements on you personally here. But I will say in general, using running to justify bad choices, specifically alcohol consumption, doesn't end well for many people. Nothing wrong with saying "I deserve this bowl of ice cream because I ran 10 miles today." Maybe not ideal, but life isn't ideal. But saying "I've justified 8 beers because I ran today" is a bad road to go down.

Up until around 30 years of age, I drank a lot socially. Never really affected my running, although I definitely would never imbibe the night before a race.

Now I sit here at work, aged 46, feeling hungover after a 16-ounce kombucha last night with its tiny alcohol content. I was mostly dry during the pandemic. Now my body just can’t do alcohol, and am better for it. I’m obviously slower re. overall but haven’t declined that much. I would like to think being committed to an alcohol-free lifestyle helps.

If I have a mild hangover, eg headache and a little tired, I find that it usually dissipates by mile 2 and I can even do tempo work by the end with minimal effect on performance (weather permitting). I don’t like to do long runs hungover though.

Refers to his running in the past tense, which implies he does not run at age 51, regardless of his drinking habits.

Me: 65th Birthday 2 months away. I wonder if I could beat him and/or the other one in a 5K.

what are you talking about? You make no logical or grammatical sense.