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TFcoach Forum > Running > High School Cross Country Runner's Annual Crash |
| kenbob |
 Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject: High School Cross Country Runner's Annual Crash |
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Location: USA - Indiana
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| I have a girl on my cross country team who seems to encounter the same problem every year. About mid-season, after about 1 1/2 months of practice and meets, she abruptly slows down due to "heavy quads." She says her muscles just quit working. She trains during the summer, begins the season as a good, solid runner, then encounters this problem. She is somewhat heavily muscled. She is the team captain and has a great attitude. We have looked into anemia, hydration, calorie intake, etc. Nothing seems to be wrong. Last year her parents had her heart checked. She is fine in that regard. We train hard, but not overly hard. She tries to run through this, appears to be in slow motion, and often shows some disorientation in the late stages of a race or hard workout. I have tried increasing her easy days in practice. If it helps at all, it's not much. I have thought perhaps there is some tendancy in her to build up lactic acid in abnormal amounts, but I don't know. I would really like to help this girl so any suggestion would be appreciated. |
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| Coach Barr |
| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: breathing properly |
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Location: USA - California
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She may not be breathing properly. A simple hard run a treadmill would be easy to look into this matter or take her to lab and have her breathing monitor.
I would say breathing issue if it only is happening on hard runs or towards the end of a race.
On the more extreme end, I had an athlete that would have seizures from hard workouts and also towards the end of a race. I could tell when it was happening based on the dazed looked on her face and lack of responsiveness. She would be trying but nothing would be happening.
It would last from a few seconds to a few minutes. But all would appear fine the next second or minute when the seizure ended. |
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