Right before my race I always get tired and start to yawn. I get in a good warm up, but I start to feel tired. I do not know why, does anybody else have this problem? I once thought maybe yawning was a nervous reaction, and I did this maybe cuz I was nervous before my race...any suggestions? People on my team have this problem to.
I used to do this before races, my coach said yawning is also a sign of nervousness. I don't know if that is true or not, but that's what I was told a while ago...
I used to feel tired as well. However, after I ran a huge PR once after the tired feeling I began to welcome the feeling before races. In fact, the more tired I felt the better I hoped to run!
I also had the yawning. When you think about it, when you yawn it's relaxing and you get a huge amount of oxygen in the lungs.
I always yawned a lot before races, and felt like sleeping. Same exact feeling. I think that happens to a lot of people,nothing to worry about. You sometimes see Olympians yawning before races. Last I heard, scientists weren't sure why this is the case, but it definitely isn't something to be avoided.
Stress reaction.
Its prbly the natural 'flight or fight' reaction in your body. You are more than likely feeling unprepared or a little scared to race. Which means the 'flight' mechanism could be kicking in......Who knows, just a guess.
its the nerves, yawing is a way of suppressing the nervousness by subdueing it
Is this why I always yawn at my desk between 9am-12am at work?
Extra O2 intake to further prepare you? That's speculation, though.
It's actually a relax mechansim of the body, not a sign of tiredness. Yawning before a race is actually a good thing, it doesnt mean your unprepared or tired or whatever, just that your body is allowing itslef to consume more O2 and get rid of excessive ammounts of carbon dioxide.
I always have a good old yawn on the startline, even if it has to be self induced, which can be done.
I yawned about 5 times reading this read.
That could mean that you're about to race.
In my opinion (not actually backed by fact) the reason you get so tired before races is because your body knows that a huge effort is fothecoming and its basically shutting down everything in preperation for it.
I find this also in my last run/training session before a race - I feel really tired.
Its definately the nervousness. i do it all the time. and when i was like 9/10/11years old i would sometimes even vomit or at least feel like vomiting just before an important race. i think its just natural