quote:<HR>Originally posted by AndyHass:
Most alcoholic beverages have quite a few carbs...whether they are simple or complex depends upon what you were drinking (beer has more complex while some hard drinks and wine will have simple sugars).

Whatever benefit you might get from carbs is counter-acted by the alcohol. First, it dehydrates you unless you drink copious amounts of water before you crawl to bed. Second, it wrecks the quality of your sleep. Third, the aldehyde byproducts that cause the hangover make you feel like **** and stress your body.<HR>

I agree with all this except that it wrecks the quality of your sleep. Unless I get totally trashed, I sleep a lot sounder after drinking. (Normally dream a lot, often nightmares-- alchohol, it's flat sleep and I feel far more rested after the same amount of sleep)

Another moron getting $hitfaced drunk.

WHY?

Would you take a hammer and hit yourself in the head?

Look enjoying a few beers a nice bottle of wine some shots ot tekillya whatever you enjoy, why would ya get to the point of too much too drunk and too out of control?

Maybe because you are as dumb as the rest of the people who have no will power.

Alcohol = FOE

Here in SC the heat index has been from 100 to nearly 120 degrees for most of the summer. Very few runners are doing speedword right now, but I'm having no trouble. I was having trouble, until I gave up beer

Besides the effect alcohol has on both your glycogen cycle and liver, which is bad bad, it also kills your cooling. This is just my experience, but science backs up the underlying principal, Any alcohol at all will totally screw up your body's ability to cool efficiently.

And the following statement:

'However, limiting the alcohol consumption to 1-2 drinks and then drinking water prior to bed often seems to have really good effects for me.'

Is especially scary because a big part of a hangover is over-hydration. You're just short of water-poisoning. That's why your head hurts. So then you take some ibuprofen right? Well that's one of the top risk factors for hyponatremia. Then you're thirsty, so you suck down some more water before the race. See where this is leading?

That's my 2 cents, and man, I miss beer, but not as much as I enjoy being able to run 400 intervals when it's 100 degrees out. Right now, if you stay away from alcohol, you can lay a cooling base for the entire fall and spring seasons.

- gurutc

http://This message has been edited by gurutc (edited Aug-08-2006).

I toke up before long runs sometimes cuz it relaxes me and keeps my mind off the distance, as well as dulls the pain. Suprisingly, my times aren't too bad. I guess that has nothing to do with alcohol, but i bet its alright, just not everytime, it will weaken your muscles.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by psychgirl78:
I think something that has been left out of this conversation as well is the age-factor! When I was 19-23 I could do a lot of things that I can't since about 25 on. After 25 it's all downhill biologically-speaking and that needs to be taken into consideration. Now that I'm pushing 30 I can't run the same as I used to, my recovery time takes longer, and I need more days off running.

Just my two cents.<HR>

Lol, it was also about the age of 25 when I first heard me say, "Kids these days, sheesh."


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postpones the inevitable.

Funny how i find college atheletes are sometimes no different in their alcohol abuse as the rest of the students on the campus. american culture and a 21 year old drinking age are trouble, then get to be away from home at college and well alcohol abuse runs rampant.

heck have you watched the MTV real world, everyone gets trashed everytime they go to a bar.

Learning to respect the devil in that bottle, make one a better person, plus a person who will feel an awful lot better the next morning.

I have watched runners even at the high school level show up saturday mornings for practice and look like crp all around to find out they had been drinking friday night to 2am.

Just stupidity.