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Message: <blockquote data-quote="whiskey" data-source="post: 788979" data-attributes="member: 21523"><p>It's very important to take fluids before the race begins. A dead giveaway to your body shutting down is lack of perspiration. And salt clearly becomes visible on your cold leathery skin. Fatigue and cramping set in. At this point, fluid consumption can be very dangerous. I. V. is a life saver. Physically he will bounce right back. Mentallly is a different story. I once had a ride in a police cruiser. Thank God he was there. But the policeman kept calling me a quitter. That wasn't any fun. I had run a 5 miler earlier in the day and then jumped into a 15.6 mile race, taking no fluids in between. Scary stuff. I crashed and burned 1 mile from the finish.</p></blockquote><p></p>