Your health during a FIRST regional

[George1902]

Originally posted by Alfred Thompson
If you can't get away from the pits then there should be people on your team who bring you food.

and in previous years this was fine. but this year someone decided they'd like to starve those poor, diligent pit crews by not allowing food in the pits.

as for my health, anyone who knows me knows that i lose my voice by about noon on thursday. =-]

as for sleep, i'm a huge insomniac anyway, so the night before the competition i'm lucky if i get an hour or two of sleep. thursday night i'm usually so tired that i don't remember my head hitting the pillow. friday night depends on how high we're ranked and how tough saturday's matches are. high ranking and tough matches saturday means George doesn't sleep well. low ranking usually means i can just go out and have fun on saturday, so i sleep like a log.

as for post competition... well, my mind is usually so sharp after a competition that i fill up 2 or 3 pages with drawings of ideas to try next year and in the off season.

well... yeah... i had to reread what i wrote to make sure i was still on topic =-]

so there's me during competition. anyone else think they're at their best when they're at a competition? (FIRST, football, baseball, chess, etc.) i think i just live to compete...

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

when i got home from the UCF regional, felt fine for two days and then my throat started killing me. when i went to the dr. he told me i had mono , and that somone at the competition had given to me. So the next competition i go to next year, im gonna be sure i what im doing at all times

[sevisehda]

Originally posted by Alfred Thompson
If you can't get away from the pits then there should be people on your team who bring you food.

Freshman, and they should bring you food while your louging on the turf outside at Nats as well.

[Alaina]

Originally posted by BBFIRSTCHICK
All the guys on our team said that all the girls were suffering from PMS.

Oh crap >.<
*just realized her time of the month is during nationals*
Oh man, I hope nobody pisses me off there like they did in San Jose. Grrrrrrr >.<

[KyleGilbert45]

Our team usually does pretty good on health at regionals..... usually 1/2 the team ends up sick after competitions though becuase of that one person that always comes w/ a cold, then they always manage to pass it on to everyone else...

As for sleeping...... there our a few of us on our team that are the master at sleep deprevation... (dj, clark, me, austin, bryan, anthony)...lol

[Kevin A]

I hear ya all,

the worst thing that happened was in NYC, when our alliance was about to compete in the final round, when i had to run all the way to the pits and back, i got to the field, and i get a bloody nose, and i have no choice of driving or not, so i grabbed a paper towel and drove one handed...i think it was all a blur, but we lost the match. I usually get sleep deprived, dehydrated and headachey.

Kevin Antaki
Team 481

AIM: xpalendocious

[kristi006]

yeah...we'd usually stay up playing cards and talking about the competition in someone's room til about 3 in the morning...head back to our rooms, talk a little more, then sack out for a few hours...get up between 5 and 7 and head out...we had a water bottle that someone passed around while we were watching the competitions, and most of us weren't in the pits, so it wasn't too hot and we didn't get dehydrated...had horrible cramps and backache, but that was cause my period decided to join in on the fun...*sigh* well, at least people avoided annoying me but i did get sick once i got back...i think i left my voice down in FL...i got it back recently though, and judging by the fact that it was more tan than i was, i assume it stayed there for awhile

[Alaina]

So many dehydrated people...Why doesn't one of the teachers or something go to the nearest grocery store and buy a 24-pack of water bottles??? That's what we did...and nobody got bloody noses or anything like that...

[ItsPat]

At the Long Island regional, there was something in the catered food Thursday that got me sick all weekend. After that I took a hike over to the Commons.
Otherwise it was sleep deprivation at it's finest. By Saturdayday everybody was on each others nerves. I was still sick and all so I stood back and watched, trying to keep sane. I found that ditching the pits for a half hour and just hanging out instead helps. The robot is big and old enough to take care of itself.
Going to Rutgers tommorow, luckily its only an hour away, so we should all stay a little healthier.

[DanLevin247]

My health at regionals is usually quite poor. Last year I came down with a yucky case of food poisoning in Cleveland, and this year I had the cold of all colds at the Midwest regional. As for sleep, my team has a strong, though unwritten code...seniors get beds. Being one of 3 seniors on a team of 7 guarntees me a bed no matter what. Aside from that, I've got a bad back, and if I end up on the floor, my back gives me problems all day long. My team also sleeps. Most of us aren't wild, the past few trips we've been on, the people in my room ( including myself ) found ourselves asleep by midnight, every night.

[Kojib]

As I said before, I have no health-related problems either at competitions. (This is probably due to past conditioning, I am immune to caffeine and regularly go weeks on end of 4 hours of sleep per night.) But there was so much discussion on this thread, I decided it must be more than just too many hot-dogs and too much sleep for a few days. I think many of us are overlooking the fact that we are usually extrememly anxious/nervous/tense for up to a week before the event. We all know that stress is bad for you, and it's effects are multiplied when it occurs for a week or two, especially when combined with poor diet and little sleep. Just my two cents, oh well.

[AshleyD]

However, sharing a mug of water between two or three people isn't exactly healthy.

[Erin Rapacki]

It has now become a tradition of mine to pull an all nighter during a regional... why?

Manchester NH... i went back to school friday night, stayed up intill 4am watching movies with friends. Knowing that I'd have to get up again at 5:30 am... i just didn't bother going to bed.

Philly... I overnighted a bus 12:30am to 9am from Boston to Philly, I can't sleep on busses well, I might have gotten an hour or two. So I consider that an all nighter.


water is key... in manchester they didn't allow food in the pits so i was going to a water fountain all the time. It is also not good to eat fast food during a comp, i always look for salads and sandwiches.

my throat still hurts from talking/yelling

well... things to look forward to at nats!



ByE

erin

p.s. if it doesn't kill you... it only makes you stronger

[Joe Matt]

I usually try to stay in shape, but I think there is a rule against listening to 'Your Attention Please' by BMG for extended periods of time.

I successfully made it through the midwest regional with no sleep the first 2 nights and then friday night I was starting to get sick so I had 5 hrs a sleep....a new record