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datlas is there anything area lab mouse can do about anaemia beyond fixing what witch doctor has not been able to fix?
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First rule of packing for a supported trip: Always always always put your clothes inside a trash bag before you put them in your duffle bag or whatever. There was a tarp covering the bags, but inconsiderate people did not put it back correctly after finding their bags, leaving some bags on the edges exposed to the rain.
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Not an expert and I've forgotten most of what little I ever knew about treatment of mild anemia, but I do know that if you want something fixed, complain about it.
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Altitude camp would help.
Attitude camp should help too.
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In about 1992 my ex and I did a loop around Oregon, 650 miles in 9 days, I think. Our panniers were lined with small trash bags and we saw rain almost every day. Usually we could see it coming and find shelter to wait it out. One day a dark cloud loomed while we were exposed and we barely made it to an underpass before it started coming down in buckets. A young woman in a pickup truck offered to give us a ride to our motel and we accepted. It was raining so hard it was ridiculous. Our stuff got soaked as if it had been submerged. Everything, even money, had to be dried.
I posted this picture from my Day 2 hotel before. Never use the circulars to line your leg warmers when it's wet out. When I pulled them down I freaked for a second thinking I had somehow suffered massive bruising.
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That's very similar to my chronic anemia. I've been that way since 2009. I don't think I've been to 13 since then and I've been as low as 9 - low ferritin levels. I've had to take prescription stuff a couple times. I quit worrying about it years ago. I generally run 12-12.5.
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At one of my first tris (Boulder Sunrise), they gave cold wet towels at the finish. I was talking with this guy who’d been leapfrogging me during the ride when I suddenly saw that my fingertips were blue, fading towards the palm. I had a more than minor freakout and ran towards and EMT before realizing that the towel was the same blue and clearly not color-fast.
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It's a smidge low but not low enough to do anything about it. EPO could possibly help but not likely to be covered by insurance with only borderline low levels.
Altitude camp would help.
Attitude camp should help too.
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Two years ago I abandoned a cross-PA tour (Youngstown, OH to Philly) after only 3 days. Thursday night, before I made the drive out to Youngstown, the forecast was calling for some rain Saturday but pretty descent the rest of the week. Somehow, that all changed in about 24 hrs. It started raining Saturday morning while I was at the Motel 6. By the time I dropped the rental off at the nearby Vienna Airport a few hours later, it was raining in earnest. And it pretty much didn't stop--for three days. Half way through the first day a guy at a restaurant told me that some areas were expecting up to 20" over the next couple of days. And it was rather chilly. And there was a headwind, so the rain was blowing into my face. And wouldn't you know it, my rain jacket was no longer waterproof, and I forgot to pack my rain pants. Got a motel the first night instead of camping. The second day was worse. Got a motel that night too. The third day was even worse. I rode through a puddle early on that turned out to be hiding a giant pothole on the shoulder. I nearly wiped out (my ass came off the saddle and one of my hands came off the brake hood) and fell in front of a car. At times I was riding in 2' of water running down the side of the road. By then, my FD was no longer functioning. I think the combination of water all day then heated motel rooms at night cause it to seize up, because when I finally made it home I tried to shift and the cable snapped. Did the entire day in my smallest chainring. Got another motel at the end of the third day. Also, there was a chance that if I kept riding I would ride into the remnants of a hurricane. An old friend--the guy who got me into cycling way back in the 80s--drove 4.5 hrs. to pick me up late the next day. We then drove to his country house that night and to back to the city on Wednesday morning. But everything in my panniers stayed dry.
I posted this picture from my Day 2 hotel before. Never use the circulars to line your leg warmers when it's wet out. When I pulled them down I freaked for a second thinking I had somehow suffered massive bruising.
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I posted this picture from my Day 2 hotel before. Never use the circulars to line your leg warmers when it's wet out. When I pulled them down I freaked for a second thinking I had somehow suffered massive bruising.
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At one of my first tris (Boulder Sunrise), they gave cold wet towels at the finish. I was talking with this guy who’d been leapfrogging me during the ride when I suddenly saw that my fingertips were blue, fading towards the palm. I had a more than minor freakout and ran towards and EMT before realizing that the towel was the same blue and clearly not color-fast.
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Nope. I've been near or actual aneamic for several years, but seem more out of breath on the hills this year. Sigh.
That's very similar to my chronic anemia. I've been that way since 2009. I don't think I've been to 13 since then and I've been as low as 9 - low ferritin levels. I've had to take prescription stuff a couple times. I quit worrying about it years ago. I generally run 12-12.5.
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Well you may have eliminated any chance of ever competitively doping. Isn't this stuff part of the ABP (Athlete Biological Passport) used in detection?
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In about 1992 my ex and I did a loop around Oregon, 650 miles in 9 days, I think. Our panniers were lined with small trash bags and we saw rain almost every day. Usually we could see it coming and find shelter to wait it out. One day a dark cloud loomed while we were exposed and we barely made it to an underpass before it started coming down in buckets. A young woman in a pickup truck offered to give us a ride to our motel and we accepted. It was raining so hard it was ridiculous. Our stuff got soaked as if it had been submerged. Everything, even money, had to be dried.
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Winter already arrived in CO, apparently. A few more weeks for the rest of us.
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