Originally Posted by
deep_sky
Stubbornness. I simply will not give up unless my body is shutting down from heat or severe electrolyte imbalance, or dehydration. Normal tiredness and aches from a long climb/long ride will not stop me. Heat exhaustion will, because there is nothing to be gained from hospitalization from heat stroke because I was stupid enough to ignore my body when it says it can no longer keep functioning.
I've been packed up into a sag vehicle and take off the course suffering badly from hyponatremia at about the 350 km point of a 600K. I didn't want to stop. The brain wanted to keep going, but the body had shut down.