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Jnadke 01-04-2003 22:21

Re: Your health during a FIRST regional
 
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Originally posted by codeoftherobot
After discussing with some of the people on my team, we found that our health was extremely poor during our competitions. Sleep deprivation due to discussing thermodynamics and quantum physics until 2 o'clock in the morning. Our team woke up at 5 and went to bed between 12 and 2 in the morning. We ate at a pizza place for our two nights there. Lack of water was a major problem in our pit area. I suffered from continual nose bleeds due to dehydration. It would then dry and make my nose stuffy. I lost about 5-10 lbs but I was exercising in the hotel gym. I was just curious what other people's health patterns were like during a regional?
Last year at IRI we stayed up all night watching movies. Most of the people slept except for a few of us. In the morning I took about 8 advil and drank a few dews. I was ready to go.

Melissa H. 01-04-2003 22:43

I usually got 4 or 5 hours...got home at 11-12 ish...posted on CD...did homework...slept at 1 or 2...got up at 5...wait...that's less than 4 hours...and I can't count...wow...sleep deprivation is worse than I thought...:D

But usually, my health isn't that great after regionals...but I never get sick.

Ashley Weed 01-04-2003 23:02

In general.. the team usually stays quite healthy... me on the other hand.... between no sleep.. and my nerves causing me to not eat... I am not too well come Saturday night. I usually loose 5+ pounds a competition. I do however, drink plenty of water while I am there. My biggest issue is stressing over everything too much... but oh well.. six competitions under my belt as driver.. and I will never learn. :)

jmort03 01-04-2003 23:12

i always sleep for like 2 days after a first competition..it takes alot out of you...i usually got about 6 hours of sleep, and tried to drink alot of water.....

we ate so much junk food, we had burger king for breakfast twice and then this really good place called the origianl pancake house, and lunch we had panera!!! woo hoo! go national science foundation grant! Diner was always much better then the rest...we went to ed debevics and ran into the huskies...talk about a loud diner....(it was all in good fun) i just feel bad for anyone in the resturant...

but over all first competitions take alot out of me...

sevisehda 01-04-2003 23:39

I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't have an ailent at competition story. Seems like everyone gets sick at some point during competition. But if you think about it the FIRST season is in the middle of cold and flu season so its not that odd. I went to the 2000 Nats with a broken ankle. It was actually a blessing because I got freshman to carry my bags and milked it for all it was worth from the disney staff. As for sleeping on the floor, just ask your advisor to room you wish underclassmen. That way you can get a bed. If your a freshman bring a sleeping bag.

JVN 01-04-2003 23:43

Quote:

Originally posted by weedie
In general.. the team usually stays quite healthy... me on the other hand.... between no sleep.. and my nerves causing me to not eat... I am not too well come Saturday night. I usually loose 5+ pounds a competition. I do however, drink plenty of water while I am there. My biggest issue is stressing over everything too much... but oh well.. six competitions under my belt as driver.. and I will never learn. :)
I'm just like you...
Stress stress stress...
I always get sick.

I'm going on my 11th competition "in booth"...

D. Gregory 02-04-2003 00:16

I managed to get a normal 6h of sleep due to the Canadian regional being a 40 min drive from my house. I was able to eat breakfast and dinner at home but reluctantly coughed up the doughto the concession stands at lunch. I managed to stay hydrated due to the $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# water fountains at our event. They had nice pressure and didn't taste like $@#$@#$@#.

AlbertW 02-04-2003 00:36

stress was generally high, but i managed to stay healthy due to my near-constant consumption of jamba juice :D

rbayer 02-04-2003 00:37

How do you people manage 6 hours of sleep at a competition?!?!? I'm lucky to get that at home! Thinking back, I don't remember going to bed before 2 or 3am during UCF, and we got up at 6-6:30 every morning. As for the whole dehydration thing, I managed to sneak my Nalgene in and nobody seemed to care that I was walking around with it. That said, my feet always feel like they're going to explode after a competition, and I can barely talk for a few days afterwards. Other than that, the 4 hours of sleep serves me just fine...

Alaina 02-04-2003 01:45

Having the robot break and being in the finals made my heart race and I was rather stressed, and my voice held up very well through Friday and Saturday. And I slept in quite late on Sunday. So that made up for the lack of sleep while there.

Amanda Morrison 02-04-2003 07:16

I ended up losing 8 lbs at the St. Louis Regional. I feel it was justified - not one member stopped running around frantically until well after the regional was over. I found out early on that lemonade helps when you feel like you are going to pass out. :rolleyes:

MissAbi 02-04-2003 07:54

Dehydration + lack of sleep + my gerneral morning crabbiness = our last regional. But my worst competition was going to West Michigan last year with food poisoning. Does anyone leave competition with a voice?

BBFIRSTCHICK 02-04-2003 08:10

yup
 
My team suffer from major sleep depravation! Other then that we had stress, and I would have to say dehydration. All the guys on our team said that all the girls were suffering from PMS. In my view the whole team was suffering from PMS.! LOL! Yet in the end we managed to come together. Im still sick from the comp which was last weekend! grrr! It was cold in Georgia!! Way diff from the temperatures in Miami! and im the clown that was going around wearing shorts...and I wonder why im sick!

Harrison 02-04-2003 09:33

Other than just being stiff everywhere in my body, being perpetually tired, and eating nothing but junk food my health has been alright so far this year through two competitions.

Granted, after a competition I usually sleep through all of sunday, and this week through my monday morning classes as well.

BTW: Whats the weather like in Houston?

Alfred Thompson 02-04-2003 10:23

Too many kids use FIRST as an excuse to stay up late. They should use it as an excuse to go to bed early. If you are a part of the team you owe it to your peers to be in top shape every day of the competition. You owe it to your team to get to sleep at night and to eat enough food and drink enough water. If you can't get away from the pits then there should be people on your team who bring you food. But you need to take care of yourself.
Don't brag about how little sleep you got because what it really means is that you screwed up.


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