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10-31-2009 6:47 PM
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* Follow the fluid recommendations….drink only when thirsty!
* Include pretzels or a salted bagel in your pre-race meal.
* Favor a sports drink that has some sodium in it over water, which has none.
* In the days before the race, add salt to your foods (provided that you don't have high blood pressure or your doctor has restricted your salt intake).
* Eat salted pretzels during the last half of the race.
* Do the salt! Carry two small salt packets with you (the kind found in fast food restaurants), and before the race and again during the last half of the race (marathon or half-marathon) consume a single packet under your tongue.
* After the race, drink a sports drink that has sodium in it and eat some pretzels or a salted bagel.
* Stop taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatories 24 hours before your race and do not start again until 6 hours post-race.
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10-31-2009 6:55 PM
Lexica
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Also, avoid diuretics before a race- green tea, cranberries, etc. They'll flush all the sodium out of your body.…

aspirin is an NSAID and should be avoided as above. If you take an aspirin once a day for heart reasons, do not stop this and continue that regime; the small amount used for heart is ok.…

You want to stop the NSAID 24 hours before a 10k or more as it blocks blood flow to the kidney and sets up "marathon kidney" (even tho it may be a 10K) and a risk for hyponatremia. We recommend not to take an NSAID until 6 hours after completing the run as the kidney is still sensitive to this altered physiology and risks hyponatremia. Indeed, race medical di...
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