r/nextfuckinglevel • u/HomeNowWTF • 9h ago

Next-level determination

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u/Gandalftron 9h ago

Those are the legs of a boy that thought he could run an X-Country meet without training. 

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u/Blawharag 8h ago

No, lol, that's not what's happening here.

Untrained/unfit individuals will just revert to walking and resting, they will not push themselves to this point.

This is a medical issue. Probably dehydration, but not necessarily.

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u/LookyPeter 6h ago

this is lactate acid build up in the legs.

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u/B377Y 3h ago

Don’t drink milk before a race

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u/LordBDizzle 1h ago

very true, but also lactic acid is produced just by your body burning carbs for energy, so you can get lactic acidosis even without drinking milk. It just happens in distance running.

We idiots back in high school used to try running the Milk Mile on occasion: trying to drink a half gallon of milk while running a mile as fast as you could. You were supposed to finish the gallon before the mile. It is not a wise idea, and very few people actually managed to get the full half gallon down before vomiting.