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Wee Question About Hydration

Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:53:46 GMT

When I ski I don't get thirsty at all. I have a job to remind myself to drink water from the plastic bottle I carry in my back pack. At the end of the Day I realise, by the colour of, well, you know, that I should have been drinking more.
Any insight or handy hints?

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:01:02 GMT

Bottle of water with the lunchtime red! Job done!! :thumbup:

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:41:40 GMT

Why not get a rucksack that has a hydration pack built in so you have a tube to take water whenever you want, pretty easy when you are on a lift. Failing that just buy a bladder and put in your existing rucksack.

However, you will need an insulation sleeve to go over the tube to stop it freezing and you can get neoprene sleeves off ebay, I paid GBP1.99 for mine,instead of buying the camelback tube for GBP20.

YOu can also get drinking tubes that fit ordinary bottles as well, but again you will need to insulate the tubes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Desert-0936-SmarTube-Hydration/dp/B000GM6LWS/ref=pd_sim_sbs_d_4/280-2525329-3001733

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Wed, 9 Oct 2013 18:01:45 GMT

I use a Tog24 hydration pack, they are good. Enough space for 2 litres of water and also a fleece, hat, chocolate bar. I have never had the bladder freeze and dont have an insulated tube - just drain it back to the bladder after use.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hydration-Ergonomic-Cycling-Running-Sports/dp/B009GH9JBO/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_2

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:13:25 GMT

I've use a Camelbak Snoblast rucksack / bladder. Insulated feed tube and a little pocket to put the bite valve in to stop it freezing. Brilliant day bag with the added bonus of a hydration pack.

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:32:50 GMT

Possibly interesting article on hydration on the BBC today....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24464774

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:49:34 GMT

OldAndy wrote:Possibly interesting article on hydration on the BBC today....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24464774

Just what I always thought. Marketing!!!!!!

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:35:47 GMT

How much should you drink depends on how much you lose through sweating and insensible loss through breathing.
Measuring your weight before and after exercise gives a clue - 1L of water weighs 1Kg and only a small amount of weight loss will be fat/food.

Altitude, temperature and level of exertion are factors that affect this for the individual. Some will seat buckets others relativley little.

Another clue can come from the urine - if it's straw coloured it's likely to be dilute enough. If it looks like water you are probably offloading excess fluid and if it's dark it implies it's concentrated (but may also be influenced by chemicals that can pass through and colour the urine so can't be an absolute yardstick)

If you seem to be urinating as much and as often as when at home you are probably drinking enough.

For many skiing is relatively hard physical work but not for all and is generally sustained over a day unlike most sporting activity, gym session or training run.

Remember there is a multi-million Pound market in rehydration liquids that are of limited benefit and most have no scientific evidence to support the claims for their product.

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:45:10 GMT

I always find a large beer at lunch sorts out my rehydration, Normally served this way ....

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:47:11 GMT

Or if I am really dehydrated .........

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:57:24 GMT

Now that's what I call a 'light' refreshment!!

Unfortunately, Ian, the younger generation don't seem to approve of drinking and ski-ing! :roll:

They miss out on so much fun! :mrgreen:

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 20:48:46 GMT

Brucie, many of the older generation don't drink and ski, (not that this includes me, I am still only 28 years old...)

I have never understood this need to carry water around. Even when I ran my regular Sunday 20 milers, I didn't need water, and didn't really need to bother during many marathons. I certainly lost weight in those efforts.

I may stop once during the morning, but my choice of drinks are hot chocolate or pure blackcurrant juice, (as opposed to the fizzy stuff.)

As has been suggested, more experienced skiers use less energy, with the converse for skiers moving through the learning process.

Certainly, off piste skiing in heavy snow has an effect!

Anyway, I have found I have a propensity for playing catch-up after 5.00pm ......

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:38:32 GMT

dizziness, stars in the eyes, loss of vision and hearing...consequences of not drinking water in the mountain for me... :shock:
so I always carry a re-fill bottle of tap water.

What about eating snow...bad for you or not? Of course assuming you avoid the yellow snow.

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:45:30 GMT

Eating is good not too sure about snow though

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:11:18 GMT

Just slide up to a stubl and ask for a glass of water...

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:46:40 GMT

Dave Mac wrote:.....

I have never understood this need to carry water around. Even when I ran my regular Sunday 20 milers, I didn't need water, and didn't really need to bother during many marathons. ......

And I bet you can eat 3 Weetabix as well DM :) No, I'm wrong: you only eat porridge and only put salt on it, never sugar, (let alone that pansy sassenach honey stuff) !

Re:Wee Question About Hydration

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 01:19:46 GMT

Billip, you bad person! Weetabix = wet chipboard.
Occasional porrage in winter, ohne zucker!
Best breakfasts of the year are in Austria, semmel mit ruppkase.
No the "no drinking and skiing" is all about self preservation, and nowadays, insurance.