Tasting blood in your mouth is really common. Anyone who runs the 800 will attest to that.
Tasting blood in your mouth is really common. Anyone who runs the 800 will attest to that.
so where does this blood taste come from
Hakuna matata wrote:
so where does this blood taste come from
The lungs and bronchial structures.
Hakuna matata wrote:
so where does this blood taste come from
Erythrocytes (red blood cells) making their way through capillary beds (which have a porous membrane) into air sacs in the lungs. None of it reaches your mouth. It just seems like it.
I spend more time than average around thoroughbred race horses. It's happens often that thoroughbreds have nosebleeds or blood in their mouths after a race. If we, as runners were beaten as we race the last 200 yards of a mile race, bloody noses and blood in our mouths would be more common. If you actually have a bloody nose or if you are spitting blood after an intense anaerobic workout you may be getting close to the danger zone.
Blitzplay wrote:
Tasting blood in your mouth is really common. Anyone who runs the 800 will attest to that.
This. Especially indoors.
"If runners were beaten as we race the last 440 yards of a mile race (usually when jockeys go to the whip), bloody nose and blood in our mouth would be more common."
once a faster runner wrote:
I spend more time than average around thoroughbred race horses. It's happens often that thoroughbreds have nosebleeds or blood in their mouths after a race. If we, as runners were beaten as we race the last 200 yards of a mile race, bloody noses and blood in our mouths would be more common. If you actually have a bloody nose or if you are spitting blood after an intense anaerobic workout you may be getting close to the danger zone.
It's not actually from that. Thoroughbreds have an inherited blood pressure alleviation deficiency in a blood vessel coupled with generally partially infected lungs from crappy air quality in their barns.
The amount that a typical horse bleeds is not performance limiting as you can see when Lasix horses manage just fine when forced to do without in countries that do not allow the drug.
Trainers get horses certified as bleeders because diuretics enhance performance and mask drugs well to boot.
Hakuna matata wrote:
so where does this blood taste come from
From your bleeding gums. Get your teeth fixed!
easy weeks wrote:
Hakuna matata wrote:so where does this blood taste come from
Erythrocytes (red blood cells) making their way through capillary beds (which have a porous membrane) into air sacs in the lungs. None of it reaches your mouth. It just seems like it.
The CO2 picks up some of the metallic scent from the blood in the alveoli it passes on its way up.
What you stated does not make what I stated incorrect. Severe hypertension may cause blood in the mouth and or bloody nose with any mammal including horses or humans. When a human has a massive heart attack or massive stroke, blood may pour out of all orifices. What occurs when one has a massive heart attack? A person is going severely anaerobic. What occurs in a 800 metres race if one goes out 2 or 3 seconds slower first 400 metres than one's 400m PB? Severe anaerobic state. Are you a jockey? Are you a thoroughbred horse trainer? Going to the whip the last two furlongs will encourage said horse to perform at levels said horse would not otherwise perform.
once a faster runner wrote:
What you stated does not make what I stated incorrect. Severe hypertension may cause blood in the mouth and or bloody nose with any mammal including horses or humans. When a human has a massive heart attack or massive stroke, blood may pour out of all orifices. What occurs when one has a massive heart attack? A person is going severely anaerobic. What occurs in a 800 metres race if one goes out 2 or 3 seconds slower first 400 metres than one's 400m PB? Severe anaerobic state. Are you a jockey? Are you a thoroughbred horse trainer? Going to the whip the last two furlongs will encourage said horse to perform at levels said horse would not otherwise perform.
I agree on high blood pressure from a race causing a potential nosebleed, but I'm not sure about the heart attack/stroke bit.
Why would blood pressure shoot up during a heart attack? Your heart might not even beat properly throughout so blood pressure would drop.
Cut, gut, beaten, eaten wrote:
Curious how many have experienced this.
When your mom was on her period, yes. It's called 'red wings.'
blood oranges wrote:
Cut, gut, beaten, eaten wrote:just blood taste
Normal. Especially if you have even a hint of EIA.
This.
Had asthma from birth which improved with move to more humid climate to EIA. Always had the faint blood taste after hard workouts and especially races. Some may say it's a metallic taste. In very hard races I recall color going to gray at the finish.
Interesting the 800m guys mentioned so much.
I ran the 880, or the half mile for you millennials. On a dirt track. Best of times.
once a faster runner wrote:
What you stated does not make what I stated incorrect. Severe hypertension may cause blood in the mouth and or bloody nose with any mammal including horses or humans. When a human has a massive heart attack or massive stroke, blood may pour out of all orifices. What occurs when one has a massive heart attack? A person is going severely anaerobic. What occurs in a 800 metres race if one goes out 2 or 3 seconds slower first 400 metres than one's 400m PB? Severe anaerobic state. Are you a jockey? Are you a thoroughbred horse trainer? Going to the whip the last two furlongs will encourage said horse to perform at levels said horse would not otherwise perform.
The point is that horses can be certified as bleeders with a mere 3 furlong breeze. It's not the whipping and final exertion that does it. It starts when they get up to speed and their spleens contract.
I had a trainers license.
how many miles do an horse run per week?