"Your Sports Drink may be dehydrating you" article

[DeniseGoldberg]

I was surprised by the amount of gatorade you drink on long hot days. I'm not drinking anywhere near that for either the gatorade or water. Probably why I'm suffering?

Maureen

It's possible. I had weeks on that trip - pretty much from western New York, through the mid-west, Missouri, Kansas, and into Colorado where the temperatures seems to hit 100+ in the sun every day. And in addition to riding myself, I was traveling solo and hauling a trailer. That certainly increases the exertion - but I think I would have been drinking that much even if I'd been traveling unencumbered by my gear (as in just doing normal day rides), to combat the heat and to support my activity level.

For what it's worth, here's a link to a press release from the American College of Sports Medicine on Preventing Hyponatremia and Dehydration: http://www.acsm.org/publications/new...ehydration.htm.

--- Denise