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Ultra Runners Collapse After Stopping Running
After six, seven, eight hours your tolerance for food and fluid just goes right down. You get hyperglacemia on top of nausea, which makes you more nauseous. Jim walmsley had a big lead in ultra trellmon blanc then developed stomach problems. His protocol was to liturally put their feet up if they collapsed at the finish line. The theory is that while running so much of your blood has had be redirected to your legs where your muscles need it. Right when you stop running, the rturn of that blood to your heart goes down because muscle contraction pumps the blood back up.
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