I am in my mid 20's. I am very fit and have been working out for about 10 years. I have done everything from competitive power lifting to crossfit to a 30mi trail races. In the last year or two I have increased my running a lot and experienced this same event. The only difference is that it takes a little longer 20 or 30 min. I believe I have found a pattern of when it occurs. It all started a little over a year ago and it was happening a lot and the feeling reminded me a lot of exertion head aches that I use to get when "O.D.ing" on pre-workout (crap-ton of caffeine) supplements back in my heavy lifting days. So.. I stopped drinking coffee or in-taking any type of caffeine at all. It was tough but boom problem was gone. The strange part of the pattern is that it did not occur during speed or VO2 max work or long runs but only during tempo run in which i would attempt to keep my heart rate at about 155-160 for 30-45min and at some point around 20 to 30 min BOOM, my lights go out and my heart jumps up to 210. So I stop and wait usually about a minute or so and it makes and immediate jump back down. If I start running again it blasts right back up.. Point is; this hasn't happened in a long time ...UNTIL TODAY, and sure enough I have grown stagnant in my caffeine evasion. By the way I don't believe at all that caffeine is an unhealthy thing. I simply believe my body has reached it's tolerance. I have in taken sooo much of it in my short life that I am rejecting it now. If you intake too much light (say starring at the sun) Bam no more light, your blind. You eat too much sugar, Bam type two diabetes. Now I don't know if there really is a finite amount of caffeine that a given person can in take, but... that has been the evidence in my experience. Hope this helps.
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I am in my mid 20's. I am very fit and have been working out for about 10 years. I have done everything from competitive power lifting to crossfit to a 30mi trail races. In the last year or two I have increased my running a lot and experienced this same event. The only difference is that it takes a little longer 20 or 30 min. I believe I have found a pattern of when it occurs. It all started a little over a year ago and it was happening a lot and the feeling reminded me a lot of exertion head aches that I use to get when "O.D.ing" on pre-workout (crap-ton of caffeine) supplements back in my heavy lifting days. So.. I stopped drinking coffee or in-taking any type of caffeine at all. It was tough but boom problem was gone. The strange part of the pattern is that it did not occur during speed or VO2 max work or long runs but only during tempo run in which i would attempt to keep my heart rate at about 155-160 for 30-45min and at some point around 20 to 30 min BOOM, my lights go out and my heart jumps up to 210. So I stop and wait usually about a minute or so and it makes and immediate jump back down. If I start running again it blasts right back up.. Point is; this hasn't happened in a long time ...UNTIL TODAY, and sure enough I have grown stagnant in my caffeine evasion. By the way I don't believe at all that caffeine is an unhealthy thing. I simply believe my body has reached it's tolerance. I have in taken sooo much of it in my short life that I am rejecting it now. If you intake too much light (say starring at the sun) Bam no more light, your blind. You eat too much sugar, Bam type two diabetes. Now I don't know if there really is a finite amount of caffeine that a given person can in take, but... that has been the evidence in my experience. Hope this helps.
August 16, 2014 - 11:36amThis Comment
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