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My experience with hyponatremia comes from Ironman racing and training. The thing I had to learn to do was to get enough salt into me. Sports drinks have no where near enough, compared to the rate I sweat at. I am at the high end of the range, 1.5L/hr or more. (Measure dry before, go out for 10 hours, track fluid in, rarely end up peeing, weigh after, 1Kilo=1Litre).

1L of sweat has on the order of 1-2 grams of salt.

My issue turned out to be that during the swim, (I am slow, so 1:30 or so) I would sweat so much, but not notice since I was swimming that when I started the bike, I was already down on salt and it just got worse. I started simply eating salt packets from a restaurant evey 1-2 hours. Not too much at any one time, easy to get down, easy to come by, made a huge difference.

But hyponatremia does really suck. I find it makes me fall asleep, even while riding, which is usually my first indication I screwed up. Within moments of the salt touching my tongue, I start to feel better. It is amazingly fast.

The upside is you get to pass out in odd locations, without the use of alcohol! I stopped once 4 hours into a 7 hour ride at 35C, to buy some water and chips. Sat in the shade to eat and drink and passed out. When I woke up and came into the store again they were relieved, as they were planning on calling an ambulance soon.

My experience with hyponatremia comes from Ironman racing and training. The thing I had to learn to do was to get enough salt into me. Sports drinks have no where near enough, compared to the rate I sweat at. I am at the high end of the range, 1.5L/hr or more. (Measure dry before, go out for 10 hours, track fluid in, rarely end up peeing, weigh after, 1Kilo=1Litre).

1L of sweat has on the order of 1-2 grams of salt.

My issue turned out to be that during the swim, (I am slow, so 1:30 or so) I would sweat so much, but not notice since I was swimming that when I started the bike, I was already down on salt and it just got worse. I started simply eating salt packets from a restaurant evey 1-2 hours. Not too much at any one time, easy to get down, easy to come by, made a huge difference.

But hyponatremia does really suck. I find it makes me fall asleep, even while riding, which is usually my first indication I screwed up. Within moments of the salt touching my tongue, I start to feel better. It is amazingly fast.

My experience with hyponatremia comes from Ironman racing and training. The thing I had to learn to do was to get enough salt into me. Sports drinks have no where near enough, compared to the rate I sweat at. I am at the high end of the range, 1.5L/hr or more. (Measure dry before, go out for 10 hours, track fluid in, rarely end up peeing, weigh after, 1Kilo=1Litre).

1L of sweat has on the order of 1-2 grams of salt.

My issue turned out to be that during the swim, (I am slow, so 1:30 or so) I would sweat so much, but not notice since I was swimming that when I started the bike, I was already down on salt and it just got worse. I started simply eating salt packets from a restaurant evey 1-2 hours. Not too much at any one time, easy to get down, easy to come by, made a huge difference.

But hyponatremia does really suck. I find it makes me fall asleep, even while riding, which is usually my first indication I screwed up. Within moments of the salt touching my tongue, I start to feel better. It is amazingly fast.

The upside is you get to pass out in odd locations, without the use of alcohol! I stopped once 4 hours into a 7 hour ride at 35C, to buy some water and chips. Sat in the shade to eat and drink and passed out. When I woke up and came into the store again they were relieved, as they were planning on calling an ambulance soon.

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My experience with hyponatremia comes from Ironman racing and training. The thing I had to learn to do was to get enough salt into me. Sports drinks have no where near enough, compared to the rate I sweat at. I am at the high end of the range, 1.5L/hr or more. (Measure dry before, go out for 10 hours, track fluid in, rarely end up peeing, weigh after, 1Kilo=1Litre).

1L of sweat has on the order of 1-2 grams of salt.

My issue turned out to be that during the swim, (I am slow, so 1:30 or so) I would sweat so much, but not notice since I was swimming that when I started the bike, I was already down on salt and it just got worse. I started simply eating salt packets from a restaurant evey 1-2 hours. Not too much at any one time, easy to get down, easy to come by, made a huge difference.

But hyponatremia does really suck. I find it makes me fall asleep, even while riding, which is usually my first indication I screwed up. Within moments of the salt touching my tongue, I start to feel better. It is amazingly fast.