CRAZY! What happens to the body during an ultra-endurance race? Courtney Dauwalter on JRE #1027

Courtney won the Moab 240 which is a 238 mile endurance race through the it's Moab right right in the Utah desert scan yinz mountains and how long did it take you to run 238 miles it took just under fifty eight hours that is so crazy and you beat the second-place person by more than 20 miles right what was the distance yeah I'm not sure the distance I think it was around 20 or so it was about ten hours so when you when you're recovering from something like this how long does it take before you feel normal again after this one I felt like a human so I finished Sunday night and I felt human by Wednesday for me those first couple of nights after I don't sleep very well I think like everything is just on overdrive my my legs are throbbing and uncomfortable and it's hard to like turn your brain off as much as you want to so I was finally like getting good normal sleep by Wednesday and it kind of messed with my appetite for a couple days as well where food just like was it it didn't sound that great even though I was like totally depleted of nutrition yeah yeah it's gotta be such a shock for your body oh for sure who knows that's probably not good for us but so when you're doing it for this amount of hours how much sleep are you getting um I slept 21 minutes Wow that is so crazy that was two separate naps really yeah so like ten into ten and and 11:29 10:01 really yeah the one minute nap oh man it was amazing was it really it really was why just why did you get up though after a minute so I did the 20 minute nap intentionally I crawled in the back of our crew car we had a sleeping bag back there and I tried to like get some good rest after it was like middle of the second night mm-hmm and I didn't sleep very well I was really uncomfortable Rex yeah and I was still like pretty amped up so I couldn't shut my brain off even though it was like becoming pretty delirious so then I left that aid station after laying in the car for 20 minutes and I was on the trail with one of my good friends and pacers and I was falling asleep as I was running like zigzagging all over the trail I couldn't keep my eyes open so at one point I was bent over and I was like face-planting towards the ground and he's like just lay down like take a nap right here right on the trail so I'm like laying down already snoring as I'm like one minute just one minute wakes me up one minute later and I was like more alert than I've ever been and then we were super pumped up the rest of the time cuz we were like a 1 minute nap it was at all I'd had some hallucinations yeah what would you see you know in the forest at night everything just like becomes something so there were tons of like faces and animals there was a guy playing a cello there was a leopard hanging out in a hammock I was like how vivid are these I mean pretty like where I think they're real and I'm like waving at him you're waving at the leopard in the hammock well I didn't wave to him I waved to the cello player really but did you know he wasn't real as you were running by yeah I mean now that I've done these quite a few times in the night I usually see some things and so now it's just like kind of cool to acknowledge that it's happening and try to remember so I can tell my tell my friends afterwards did you have to pee yeah that's crazy because I would think that you're you're sweating so much they would just go right through your skin yeah I'm not sure the signs of it for a while I was peeing like way too much like multiple times per mile and I think it has something to do with the amount of salt thank you that was another question I had do you you taking salt tablets I wasn't until I was having this this problem and then it was like we gotta try and stop this cuz that's not good either to go as often has that can you talk about the run rabbit run race you had that you won all right oh yeah we can talk about that end no I'll let her describe it because it sounds pretty crazy what happened so the hundred mile race that I was doing a months before Moab at about I mean 12 miles roughly to the finish line my vision started blurring like in the periphery and over the course of the next couple miles closed in until it was pure white I couldn't see anything so I just like stumbled my way along roughly ten miles of trails to get to the finish line pretty much I would say like 98% blind what I could see my feet like right in front of my feet but it was just whiteout so I was running and falling everywhere it was probably hilarious if you were watching but I hit my head also on a rock laughter you're blind yeah one of the times I fell so I had blood dripping down my face like stumbling along totally couldn't see the trail you still won yeah managed to finish and and hold the lead you're a savage you should give seminars on how to be a savage that is crazy so what what did what happened to your vision so since then there's been tons of people kind of talking about it apparently it happens in ultras quite often they are thinking it's a corneal edema so basically like I wear contact lenses to see and the like contact mixed with the air and the dryness and mm-hmm all sorts of things cause like a kind of fluid or I'm not really sure how it works have you ever thought about getting lasix or something people who have done LASIK also get this corneal edema so for now I'm just staying staying with the contacts because I've I've been learning how to deal with those a little bit better well did that concern you at all when you're about to run 238 miles yeah I really didn't want to go blind again no Jesus Christ but I actually at that course yeah yeah right off a cliff yeah I was using eye drops just like get some like tears going in there and I wore glasses for this whole race in Moab because that's supposed to help as well keep grit from hill yeah yeah now when you got back and you won that race and you were basically almost blind how long did it take for your vision to recover five six hours and so is this your your goal now is to just run yeah for the time being I want to just see what can happen if I really dedicate more time and energy to training and traveling for races and all of the pieces that go with that and what his woman's name they put on the Moya Candis Burt Candice and disc andis like look I know Chu is she involved in Bigfoot as well yeah yeah all those 200 mile races are hers but if she look at the 240 now and look at you and go Courtney might be able to do 320 she she just the other day suggested on the like there's a Moab 200 Facebook group and she put it out there what about a 500 mile know that's Candace she suggests I know what Courtney don't do that I mean why you're a cyclist near a guy that was leading for a while but he had a he had a bail at like 150 miles he couldn't take it anymore yep so I was going back and forth for a while with a guy until maybe yeah I think it was 150 miles what happened to him I'm not sure I think his legs or his quads or something was given out so is that what happens like you your muscles just break down you get what does it call the tall assess or something like that your muscle start eating themselves yeah and just like no response you're getting nothing back from them yeah and what is that thing that those CrossFit people get robbed oh mile OSIS oh yeah yeah do you ever get that I've never gotten a rap rap demo rhabdomyolysis yeah something about like your muscles are breaking down into your bloodstream or yeah yeah that's not good it's supposed to be horrible yeah and apparently like way more common today than a muscle breakdown damages the kidneys apparently it's way more common today because of these CrossFit classes and you know people push themselves Rhonda Patrick dr. Rhonda Patrick who's this brilliant moment of added fat on the podcast a few times posted something on Twitter just a couple of days ago that a regular rigorous physical exercise can expand lowers the the biological age by as much as nine years Wow was it like you find that yeah it's Chris I'm crazy study they did on extend it mean it just makes sense any rigorous exercise yeah here it goes physical exercise reduces cancer incidences lower the race of recurrence inhibits tumor growth no it's one that I retweeted it was here it is high-intensity exercise delayed biological aging by nine years as measured by telomere length so it's like scientific analysis of your telomeres that's amazing so like what nine years every time you no no no but I mean like people who are reversely exercising so say if you're you're thirty nine yeah your telomeres results showed that regular activity accounted for significantly longer telomeres in US adults the longer telomeres found an active adults accounted for nine years of reduced cellular aging regular physical exercise activity reduces disease risk possibly due to the preservation of telomeres Wow

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Length: 10min 18sec (618 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 05 2018