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- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!m2xenix!servio!marcs
- From: marcs@slc.com (Marc San Soucie)
- Subject: Re: Cold Weather hydration (was: Re: Frozen water bottles)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.013042.23948@slc.com>
- Organization: Servio Corp, Beaverton Oregon, US
- References: <1992Dec9.022616.12265@netcom.com> <3450006@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:30:42 GMT
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- Jobst Brandt (jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM) writes:
-
- > It seems to me, however, that three riders going out on a 75 mile
- > ride with 5000 feet of climbing drinking less than a half bottle of
- > water represents valid data.
-
- I don't see data here that helps to determine whether this experiment in
- deprivation had a beneficial or detrimental effect on the health or
- performance of the riders.
-
-
- > So remember, if you can't balance in front of cars at the traffic
- > light, drink water... especially before you need it, as the saying
- > goes. And it doesn't matter if it's frozen because it's the gesture
- > that counts.
-
- Are you suggesting that it is wrong to drink water when stopped at a
- traffic light?
-
- Marc San Soucie
- Portland, Oregon
- marcs@slc.com
-