Originally Posted by Tom Stormcrowe
That figure would be about right. It likely is a water gain as when you stress the muscles sufficiently to start getting tissue breakdown due to the protein metabolism kicking in, you get a lot of osmosis going to begin removing the uric acids, lactic acid and protein fragments from the tissue. It happens.

You'll likely pee dark for a few days and very frequently.
Yep, this happens to me al of the time... especially after MTB races. Even my face feels swollen the next day. It's just swelling due to the tissue damage you infliced on yourself. Take some advil and give it a couple of days.