It doesn't really matter what he is doing. You are the one almost passing out in church. Your answer is in several of the above posts as you summarized pretty well. Basically, you need to eat more.
It doesn't really matter what he is doing. You are the one almost passing out in church. Your answer is in several of the above posts as you summarized pretty well. Basically, you need to eat more.
This happens to me fairly often after an extremely hard run. When you feel the first dizziness coming on, immediately drop to one knee and and lower your head. The feeling should immediately disappear. If you fight it or just sit down (with your head up) you'll continue to get dizzier and nauseous. If this resolves the problem, it is low blood pressure perhaps combined with low blood sugar and mild dehydration. An electrolyte pill, water (or sports drink with electrolytes) and more carbohydrate should alleviate the problem.
i has the vapors wrote:
To clarify, he says in the article that he doesn't eat breakfast before his runs, and eats no GU during. He doesn't mention how late he eats dinners, but a 7pm dinner would be a 12-hour fast if he starts his runs at 7am. I'd be curious to know if he snacks into the night prior to long runs.
I think he believes in teaching the body to use other sources for fuel by doing the easy long runs without calorie intake. I don't know how much effect that has but I suppose everyone is different in how their blood sugar reacts.
It is quite likely you just needed to eat more after the run. I don't take in a lot of calories before (200-300), but I do like to get something in me and I'm starved after. Also I'm usually up for a couple of hours before I run, maybe if I just got up and headed out the door it would be different.
Kevin52 wrote:
I do like to get something in me and I'm starved after. Also I'm usually up for a couple of hours before I run, maybe if I just got up and headed out the door it would be different.
Sounds familiar. When marathon training, before my long runs of 17-22 miles, I'll eat a small bowl of cereal (~200 calories) about 30-60 minutes before hand, then carry a fuel belt with 20 oz of gatorade and 2 GUs (~35 cals). Afterwards, I'll head to the local pancake house for a 1000+ calorie breakfast, then take it easy on food for the rest of the day. This helps to immediately combat the run's 2100-2700 calorie deficit and allow me to still be productive during the day.
Progress wrote:
Sounds familiar. When marathon training, before my long runs of 17-22 miles, I'll eat a small bowl of cereal (~200 calories) about 30-60 minutes before hand, then carry a fuel belt with 20 oz of gatorade and 2 GUs (~35 cals). Afterwards, I'll head to the local pancake house for a 1000+ calorie breakfast, then take it easy on food for the rest of the day. This helps to immediately combat the run's 2100-2700 calorie deficit and allow me to still be productive during the day.
I usually have a large brunch on Sunday around 1pm, but the window to refuel has past at that point. So moving the long run to Saturday will help me keep shoveling it in earlier in the day without resorting to church donuts.