I was at Paul Short. I never saw so many guys heaving and puking after a race. Is this bicarb?

Either the South Bend Cuisine or disordered eating. College kids can’t afford the expensive digestible forms of bicarbonate, so they resort to straight baking soda or bulimia.

Some of them also smoke baking soda to reduce the effects of gastric distress.

South Bend cuisine? WTF?

I was there too, it was deceptively warm and humid. It definitely affected some folks, but I too noticed more collapses and vomiting than usual.

the zoomers are weaklings thats why

I ran Paul Short last year on a what felt also felt like a hot but not outrageously so day and threw up after the line. I honestly think the course is part of it — after hitting the top of the final hill, my HR felt maxed out so I was basically hyperventilating the whole 400m home, then threw up after stopping.

Any foodie worth their salt knows that South Bend is a true gastronomes delight. With numerous underground Michelin restaurants popping up in abandoned rust belt warehouses, it is like a Fight Club of the Midwest, but for food.

you would use a nebulizer. sorry to knock another second off the average 800m,

That's good. Paul Short is in Pennsylvania, not South Bend.

It wasn't "deceptively warm and humid", it was exactly what was expected. It seems we go through this every year with Paul Short. Paul Short cuts right through a cornfield. Take a look at the photo on the front page of the website.

The Cornfield Effect

Farmers and scientists have known for a long time the phenomenon of intense humidity in cornfields. One of the properties of corn is that it emits a lot of moisture through respiration. The surface area of an acre of corn is a lot greater than the ground on which it's planted. Corn puts a huge amount of moisture into the local atmosphere, making
ground level dew points shoot through the roof (where the ambient recorded temperatures are at it's highest). The higher the temperature the more moisture the air can accept if it's available. The deadly cocktail of direct overhead sun and supercharged ground level dew points driven by the cornfield effect made conditions for cross country competition horrible.

From a broader perspective, parts of the country that are known for corn production are also known for extremely high dew points during the Summer months. On a previous thread, Brian Erb correctly stated that his experience was that Omaha was much more humid than Atlanta because of it -- and the data backed it up -- Omaha's historic record showed that it had three times as many 75°+ dew point days than Atlanta had.

http://tinyurl.com/Cornfield-effect

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-verizon&source=android-browser&q=surface+area+of+corn+vs+the+surface+area+of+ground+acre

The Cornfield effect? NAU wasn't even there!

This post just released a memory from decades ago. I ran an invitational at Lehigh in 1990. I don’t remember if it was called Paul Short back then, but I digress. It was a very warm day, low 80s I believe, and runners were collapsing as soon as they crossed the finish line. One guy was being carried away and he must have thought he was dying. Told the guys carrying him, “Please tell my mom I love her”.

I read this in the voice of Stefon lol.

Always confuse those rust belt towns with races named for guys who have never been in my kitchen. Lot of South Bend themed restaurants in Bethlehem. Bethlehem is really the South Bend of Pennsylvania.