yarbonwick
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- Mar 7, 2000
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The following was posted by a riding bud of mine over at the Texas Sportbike Association. Please, please, please hydrate!
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Guys I had some very sad news told to me yesterday. A good friend of my wife's lost her husband a couple of weeks ago at Muenster because of heat exhaustion!
In a nutshell he was riding with a couple of mates and they called it a day. He was feeling weak and tired and dehydrated so he said that he would chill out on his chair under the tree and drink his redbulls until he felt better then would drive home.
Well his other buddies left him and about 9.30-10.00 p.m. that evening one of his mates calls his house to find out how he was doing only to talk to his frantic wife as she has not heard from him.
They head back up to Muenster and find him still sitting in the shade where they had left him - dead.
After the autopsy the doc stated that he had drunk two red bulls and the spike in caffiene and sugar had put his heart into overload and he died.
the Doc advised that its better to rehydrate with water and gatorade than any type of redbull or monster and if one of your mates is not feeling well - STAY WITH THEM!
I only posted this as some of you are racing and still riding in this heat and to be honest I can honestly say that the heat exhaustion has hit me already this season and I had to pull out of a race.
It took me well over 40 minutes with a cold wet towel over my head, my shirt off, drinking cold ice water in the shade before I even felt semi-normal.
Please be careful out there and drink plenty of fluids before, during and after. Stay away from Caffiene!
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Guys I had some very sad news told to me yesterday. A good friend of my wife's lost her husband a couple of weeks ago at Muenster because of heat exhaustion!
In a nutshell he was riding with a couple of mates and they called it a day. He was feeling weak and tired and dehydrated so he said that he would chill out on his chair under the tree and drink his redbulls until he felt better then would drive home.
Well his other buddies left him and about 9.30-10.00 p.m. that evening one of his mates calls his house to find out how he was doing only to talk to his frantic wife as she has not heard from him.
They head back up to Muenster and find him still sitting in the shade where they had left him - dead.
After the autopsy the doc stated that he had drunk two red bulls and the spike in caffiene and sugar had put his heart into overload and he died.
the Doc advised that its better to rehydrate with water and gatorade than any type of redbull or monster and if one of your mates is not feeling well - STAY WITH THEM!
I only posted this as some of you are racing and still riding in this heat and to be honest I can honestly say that the heat exhaustion has hit me already this season and I had to pull out of a race.
It took me well over 40 minutes with a cold wet towel over my head, my shirt off, drinking cold ice water in the shade before I even felt semi-normal.
Please be careful out there and drink plenty of fluids before, during and after. Stay away from Caffiene!
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