When planning to run a race, do not also plan to donate blood the day before.
The typical donation is about a pint of blood. We have about 10 pints of blood in our body. Therefore, in donating blood you are losing 10% of your blood supply. It takes approximately 24-48 hours to replenish the volume, and four to eight weeks to replace the red blood cells.
If your race is 30 hours after your donation, it’s probably not going to go well.
A pre-race meal, approximately 3 hours before the run, should not consist of fried dough and a root beer float. The fruit salad will not make up for it.
You may spend the entire race hoping and praying you do not throw up. Because really, it’s a 5k and that would be embarrassing in itself, but this happen to be the biggest 5k in the state with over 6,000 runners and walkers that the news not only covers, but many of their employees run as well.
And lastly, if you’re planning to run a race, actually training for it, even in a minor way, will help.
I fully support blood donation – its one of the easiest ways anyone can help save lives. Being uncomfortable for ten minutes to a half hour (yea, sometimes my blood doesn’t flow quite so fast) and maybe enduring a bruise for a week is nothing compared to what someone in need a blood transfusion is likely going through. But I will never do it within a week of a race again. Ever. Ugh.
I fully support fried dough and root beer floats at appropriate times. Post race would be a good choice.
Pretty sure fruit salad is okay in almost all situations.
Blood donation facts taken from : the internet, per Google. kthanks.
5k Fail.
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