Fattman
Active Member
- Location
- Roydon, Essex
Hi All,
Just wanted to share a strange discovery that may be of use to someone, somewhere...
Did the Wiggle No Excuses 80 mile ride on Sunday and decided to use it as an early-season tester - rode it as hard as I could for as long as I could (so HR up near 90%) (I know, I know, not a great idea, but I wanted to see what would happen!). Now, that may indeed be daft, and it turned out to be unpleasant - my legs went horribly pop with about 15 miles to go and I found myself in a grovelling world of unhappiness.
To the point: when it all started going downhill (particularly when going uphill!) I found that I was starting to get really nauseous. I wasn't bonking, I had been eating, drinking fine - so I thought I must be suffering from the infamous intolerance towards fructose which some suffer from. Really feeling quite sick, scared to burp... then I recognised the symptoms, same as travel sickness I used to get a lot (less so now). I realised that in my blue funk I was staring at the road, then lifting my head to desperately scan the horizon for the end, then back to the bike computer, then back to the road, head lolling, chewing the stem...
So I stopped doing that, forced myself to keep my head up and after a few minutes - bingo! Nausea went away, I could sup more fluids without feeling like I was going to hurl, and generally perked up a quite a bit.
I'm not saying at all that there isn't a link between on-the-bike fancy fuel and getting stomach upsets, but if you find yourself getting sick on the bike maybe just try looking as far ahead for as long as possible - you may just be getting motion sickness!
HTH
Matt
Just wanted to share a strange discovery that may be of use to someone, somewhere...
Did the Wiggle No Excuses 80 mile ride on Sunday and decided to use it as an early-season tester - rode it as hard as I could for as long as I could (so HR up near 90%) (I know, I know, not a great idea, but I wanted to see what would happen!). Now, that may indeed be daft, and it turned out to be unpleasant - my legs went horribly pop with about 15 miles to go and I found myself in a grovelling world of unhappiness.
To the point: when it all started going downhill (particularly when going uphill!) I found that I was starting to get really nauseous. I wasn't bonking, I had been eating, drinking fine - so I thought I must be suffering from the infamous intolerance towards fructose which some suffer from. Really feeling quite sick, scared to burp... then I recognised the symptoms, same as travel sickness I used to get a lot (less so now). I realised that in my blue funk I was staring at the road, then lifting my head to desperately scan the horizon for the end, then back to the bike computer, then back to the road, head lolling, chewing the stem...
So I stopped doing that, forced myself to keep my head up and after a few minutes - bingo! Nausea went away, I could sup more fluids without feeling like I was going to hurl, and generally perked up a quite a bit.
I'm not saying at all that there isn't a link between on-the-bike fancy fuel and getting stomach upsets, but if you find yourself getting sick on the bike maybe just try looking as far ahead for as long as possible - you may just be getting motion sickness!
HTH
Matt
