Hi All,
Doing my first oly on Saturday I managed to blow up on the last quarter of the run. Embarrassingly - I had to walk a bit of it. I guess I hit the wall (complete lack of energy), although the disturbing bit was that my hands were really tingling, a bit like a dull pins and needles.
Any ideas what this was?
Cheers,
Richard
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I used to put it down to my hands being in the same sort of position for a long time and found stretching my arms and doing rather embarrassing windmill type things with them helped.
<awaits pi55 take for above comments>
So, here goes for starters!
Wouldnt it be elsewhere that went all tingly if you bonked that wall, rahter than your hands?
Although I'm not the first one to use it on this forum.
was it a cold swim? was the bike downhill/technical, made you grip the bars, etc? My hands get numb after a/. open water swimming and b/. biking for too long without moving them.
any of those two possible? wouldn't have thought so in an olympic tho.
Tricky to do whilst running, I know.
Could be absolute rubbish but it sounds plausible:)
I sometimes get numb or tingling fingers at the very end or immediately after a hard run when I am still breathing very hard but I don't need as much oxygen. Over-respiring then triggers the hyperventilation and numbness.
The Trickster - I imagine that your fingers only went numb after you slowed down or stopped. If so, the tingling fingers are a result of slowing down or stopping rather than the cause.