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* Avoid whatever caused the pressure
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| rowspan="34"| Fatigue/sleepiness
| Low blood sugar
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* Take carbs earlier
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| Low blood fat<ref name="fat"/>
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* Consume a high fat food, such as peanut butter
* Combine high fat and high carbs as this will not only boost both, but often these foods are easier to digest
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* Eat fat earlier
* Have a higher fat pre-race meal
* Don't consume only fast carbohydrates
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| You're running an ultra (what did you expect?)
* Take yoghurt to help compensate
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| rowspan="78"| [[Running and Lower GI Problems| Diarrhea]]
| Infection
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* Take yoghurt to help compensate
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| rowspan="24"| Weak and/or painful legs
| [[Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness| DOMS]]
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* [[Carbohydrate Loading]]
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| Muscle spasm
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* [[Massage]] can work wonders, even in the middle of a race
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| Low blood fat<ref name="fat"/>
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* Consume a high fat food, such as peanut butter
* Combine high fat and high carbs as this will not only boost both, but often these foods are easier to digest
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* Eat fat earlier
* Have a higher fat pre-race meal
* Don't consume only fast carbohydrates
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| rowspan="2"| [[Cramps| Cramping]]
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* [[Stretching]]
* [[Massage]] (even mid race massage can make a remarkable difference)
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* [[Stretching]]
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<ref name="Imodium"> Imodium ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loperamide Loperamide]) is an anti-diarrhea mediation, but it works by slowing the progress of material through the digestive tract. Some runners find this makes the problem worse, acting like a cork.</ref>
<ref name="fat">Low fat availability is less well researched than low blood sugar/[[Glycogen]] depletion, but there is some anecdotal evidence that ultrarunning can deplete the available fat sources. This is not to say that you run out of body fat, just that you can't mobilize those fat stores quickly enough, combined with depleted intramuscular triglycerides.</ref>
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