Originally Posted by
carpediemracing
I had a teammate that seemed to get sick on command. I also caught on cam (I forgot about it until I read this thread) someone pulling off to get sick at a training race this year.
I've never gotten sick on the bike. The ones that I've seen get sick seem to think of it as proof they were working hard. I see it as proof they were working kinda dumb. Well, if they won and puked, fine. But puked and OTB, that's no good.
Good point. I've puked four times from cycling efforts. Two of them were following 1' attack race wins, one was training sprints that got out of hand, and the other was after setting a 1' personal best power average. So, that's once every five years for me (though two of those were since I got the power meter
). It seems that for me, it takes a rapid burst of lactic acid to get my liver freaked out (causing nausea), then hitting my max HR in the same effort, and presumably my max resp. rate. All of these were on race-nutrition only. No table food in my stomach or coming out of it. Two of those efforts I had an HR strap on, and could confirm max HR. The other two, I wasn't wearing it.