Re: How to avoid lower leg cramps?

10-02-2003, 05:25 PM

[Was the lack of food related to my cramps? And, how can I avoid them in
the future?] I think that you already know what to do to avoid these.
Try taking alone gels and pnce you start taking them. Keep taking one
every 10 miles at this point. Food can be only one thing to cause
cramps. Most of the time it's WATER that cause or not eough. Riding and
training for bigs ride ..like the one you do took when they came. Should
be taking with steps. I most say that if your doing three days of riding
and one day of spinning. Your legs should be able to ride out for some
miles. If it sounds like to talk to much. Am a team riding out here in
San Francisco andI know all about hills. And we ride for hours durring
the week and on the weekend we ride for about 80 to 120 miles. But if
it's cross session like now we hot the trails for about 40 miles or less
on the mountain bikes. Just remember before any big even if the miles
are not like the teams . You should bring gels with you. They work to
avoid that nasty road cramps. Good luck out there reply I look forward
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10-02-2003, 07:04 PM

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> Food can be only one thing to cause
> cramps. Most of the time it's WATER that cause or not eough.

In my own empirical experience, it's lack of sufficient sleep
that brings on calf cramps. I opine that sleep is necessary
for cellular regeneration -- if the muscles don't get a fair
chance to repair themselves during sleep, cramps result, no
matter how many bananas one eats or how much slightly saline
water one drinks. I've verified this conjecture on my part
to some extent, after enduring some working all-nighters.

cheers,
Tom

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