Easy way to save not ounces but a couple pounds off your pack!!!!

[Franco Darioli]

Nothing to do with body building. It was just a link to a site that explained the point.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2013/10/what-the-color-of-your-urine-says-about-you-infographic/

[jscott]

My apologies Franco; that’s good information! I got lost in your earlier link and couldn’t muscle my way through to find it.

[BlackHatGuy]

Since it doesn’t seem anyone else has said it, I guess I must.

Can’t believe you’re all having a pissing contest about all this….

[jscott]

the good news is that according to Franco’s chart a healthy pee should be the color of an IPA or maybe a wheat beer. I’ll have to work on that.

[BlackHatGuy]

but not a nice scotch. sigh….

[BlackHatGuy]

I’ll tell ya though, I could have used more water during my hike last weekend. I went hiking in M.C. Escher National Park, and man, I didn’t think those hills were ever going to end! Just one false summit after another!

[Ken Thompson]

Glad to hear there’s no purple urine.

[jscott]

Yeah well Prince even peed better than the rest of us…

[Franco Darioli]

Ahhhhhhh !!!
I was going to post the
Purple wee
Purple wee..
bit
but now the moment has gone.

[Jerry Adams]

Once I walked about 8 miles, several hours, downhill, raining – so I just slogged along without stopping because it was raining.

Then my legs got very heavy.  Could barely move.  Drank some water and ate.  After 30 minutes I was pretty much back to normal.  I don’t know if it was hydration or blood sugar.  Regardless, I’m a little better now at eating and drinking every hour or two regardless.  Don’t need to eat and drink constantly though.

Once I did several days at 80 F or so during the day.  Regardless of how much I drank I could not keep my urine clear over the day.  But I drank up in the evening and my urine got clear eventually.  .  Water supplies weren’t real plentiful so I carried 1.5 liters.

I think you have to really work at it to get hyponatremia.  Drink enough to make your urine clear, then drink a few more liters.  This is only a problem if you really go crazy drinking lots of water.

I can tell the color approximately just looking at the stream.  Doesn’t have to be very exact.

[Ryan K]

Last night I watched on youtube the film about David Cracknell running the Marathon des Sables.  They measured he was losing 3.5L of sweat per hour!  Under those conditions, you gotta camel up.

[Ryan K]

Here’s a nice recent article with citations

Drink When Thirsty – Alan Dixon

 

[Roger Caffin]

Then my legs got very heavy.  Could barely move.  Drank some water and ate.  After 30 minutes I was pretty much back to normal.  I don’t know if it was hydration or blood sugar.

30 minutes would most likely be blood sugar. Rehydration is normally significantly faster imhe.

Cheers

 

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