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[[File:Mt Hinson Trail.jpg|right|thumb|500px|The trail that ascends 'Mount Hinson', which is a shallow if sandy climb the first time around, and then slowly gets steeper with each passing lap. (Copyright Frank Lilly, used with permission.)]]
At the 2013 in some lake 24 hour ultra classic I suffered from severe [[Nausea|nausea ]] and my race was terminated after 47 miles. However, this race gave me some interesting indications of what may be causing my nausea. Here's what happened…
* Before the race, I was feeling strong and my [[Three Phase Taper]] had gone well, hitting 190 miles in my peak week.
* I slept well the night before the race, and had a ketogenic eggnog for breakfast. (8oz Heavy Cream and an egg, around 1,000 calories.)
* Around mile 20 I started fueling with a mixture of coconut oil, Macadamia nut oil, and Nuttela. This mixture seemed to go down remarkably well and I had no digestive problems in the next little while. This formula is liquid, but contains very little water as it is nearly all oil, which may have been misleading as I was drinking, but not hydrating.
* Around mile 24 I did a [[Morton Stretch]] and noticed I had symptoms of low blood pressure. On standing up from the stretch I had to bend over to avoid browning out.
* Around 33 miles I started to find my [[Breathing|breathing ]] was becoming higher for the same pace. This is something I associate with hitting the wall, or the pre-adaptation stages of the [[Ketogenic Diet|ketogenic diet]]. I did a blood test that showed my ketones were at 0.8 and glucose was 108, both within my normal range for running.
* Around mile 30 I had a strange quad spasm. The pain went from miles through to a sharp electric pain and onto an un-ignorable pain that forced me to stop running all within the space of less than a minute. If someone had described to the sensation and location I might well have assumed it was [[Iliotibial band syndrome]], but the pain was actually from muscular problems in the lateral side of the quad. I stopped briefly to [[Massage]] it with my elbow and the pain went away, and never came back. In fact that bit of mid-race massage really helped the quad.
* Around mile 36 I started to suffer from nausea. I had a cluster of symptoms that I've had on other races; nausea, stomach pain, gas, lightheadedness, and a pervasive sense of weakness. This weakness is more like the feeling you have with a fever than from running long distances.
