Your health during a FIRST regional

[Elyse Holguin]

eek, i lost my voice friday of west michigan, still havent gotten it back.... and i've been sick since monday after midwest.... but, i'm happy about that, due to HOW i got sick...

[Alfred Thompson]

Well I just hope all of you going to Houston take care of yourselves. I for one will be praying for all of you to have a happy, safe and healthy time.

[Wetzel]

I routinly skip a sleep period(couple times a month). No big deal. Just skip, and stay with 6 hrs sleep a night, if that. Don't get sick.
I did stay fed at SVR and LA. (Thanks Jason and crew!)

Hurray for a body that accepts all the punishment I dish it.


Wetzel
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I thank Tigerbolt for helping me develop that talent.

[mynameisalex]

I felt really fatigued, but that was no doubt due to the fact that I was the driver, and thus:

1. No sleepin'- first night there, got to bed at 11:30, couldn't get to sleep until 1:00, woke up at 1:30 and sat up for an hour with insomnia, then got up at 6:00

2. No eatin'- On one of the days (forget which), I had a Pop-Tart for breakfast, plus a glass of apple juice, then nothing else until 6:00 that evening. It was crazy in the pit.

I think a lot of it has to do with how much time you have. If your team has team meetings until 9:30 PM (which mine did), you're not gonna get to bed until at least 10.

[Breanne M]

Originally posted by kristen
And then, there's the question of your health during the MATCHES.... by the end of the weekend, my throat hurts sooo badly.

I'm with ya on that

[DCaldwell05BCP]

Our team experienced serious sleep deprivation due to the fact we had an X-BOX and PS-2 in the room. All-night Halo deathmatches are not good for your health.

[GateRunner]

It wasn't at the regionals, but at the nats our team brought along a ps2 and DDR(dance dance revolution for those of you who have not yet been enlightened)
They moved it out into the hallway to avoid both the no-opposite gender in the other's room and not to annoy anyone on the first floor(we were on the second) with all the stomping.

Does moving DDR into the hallway fix the problem of pounding on someone's ceiling? I didnt take my pads to San Jose because I knew that any sort of complaint about my room being noisy would get us sent home.

[AlbertW]

yeah, it should the floorplans are generally the same, and usually the sleeping area is next to the window, opposite the room door.

[odin892]

Originally posted by Vincent Chan
However, being able to go home since the competition was down the street (it's actually closer to my house than it is the school)

what did the FedEx man think when you shipped the robot down the street?

[Raven_Writer]

Team 5 in general doesn't get to much sleep loss [first year in this so I'm not positive].

Me: I go to bed around midnight at the latest during comps., at home it's around 10:30 now (used to be around 11:30 or so).

Pittsburgh - Day 1: Woke up at about 5:30. I went to bed at around midnight, after spending some time w/ team #35 (if anyone of you guys read this, remember the countdown? lol).

Pittsburgh - Day 2, 3: [Woke up at about 6:30 - 7] About the same as #1.

Great Lakes we drove back and forth all the time (~45 minutes away). Woke up at about 6-7 each day though.

Houston - Day 1: Woke up at 4, got on the plane (w/ Chief Delphi [so freakin' cool, they should remember Matt and the lil' kid. If anyone wants to hear it...PM or something]).

Houston - Day 2, 3: About the same as Pittsburgh...health sucked then though (asthma really bad).

Throughout all of these, I've never got sick (thank lord). I've had scratchy-voice-sickness though, but it was cool.

P.S.: I know this layout was probably pointless, but at the moment, I'm bored as heck.

[Nick Seidl]

I tend to get nearly debilitating stomachaches at competitions. I think part of that is the poor diet (Dew, half a slice of pizza, more Dew, beef jerky and a Twinkie, more Dew), and the stress of the competition. Between making sure the robot runs, and trying not to trip and fall on my face during HP mode, and being excessively nervous around this one girl on my team, I had to get my back up for HP to start warming up at VCU. These are accompanied on occasion by hyperventilation, which also poses a few problems.

[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by goosefrom71
eek, i lost my voice friday of west michigan, still havent gotten it back.... and i've been sick since monday after midwest.... but, i'm happy about that, due to HOW i got sick...

Anyways...

Well, how bout this for health: During Chicago, Midwest regional, I get one NASTY cough. Im getting pretty sick to the point where I have to go to a doctor. At this point, its a week before Houston when I get to a doctor, and I'm told that theres definetly something wrong with my respiratory passages. They have me do a asthma treatment (I've never had asthma btw), and then give me three sets of medicine to take. I start taking them, and 3 days later develop some sort of red bump thing all over me (later found to be an allergic reaction to zipthromax). This is only days before houston now, and the doctor is also wondering if maybe I have walking pneumonia (sp?). All of this is also, btw, resulting in me having no voice throughout competition. Of course, in true FIRST spririt, I arrive at Houston despite my parents and doctor saying I should stay home and rest. Ha! Instead, I ran the 4 flights of ramps many times a day. Im still alive, arent I?

[Arrowsmith]

All our team had different cases, like our programmer who only gets 3 hours of sleep on our competitions. I never got a bed at any of the hotels, so I was a wreck when I woke up in the morning. And, my hands hurt from clapping, but I'm ok.

[John JediMaster]

while i can't say anything for my health at regionals. My health did suffer on the nats trip. it was most likely because it was the first time that I had been given an important job. Sleep deprivation combinded with not eating as much as I usually do was not good on my system. Then when I got home I had to drive with my dad to the outer banks of north carolina, and I slept most of the way down. And I probably got more sleep then than I did most of the nights on nats.