Thomas Lapeyrie finished off the 2017 Enduro World Series season with a fifth place in Finale Ligure, and had several Top-20 results throughout the season. We just recently posted
a story about the Orbea Enduro Team's training camp at the end of January, and less than a week ago, the 27-year-old posted on Instagram that he was headed to Chile for the 2018 Andes Pacifico Enduro, so we were surprised and concerned when we saw this post of him in the hospital earlier today.
400 [Failed to load instagram embed] https://www.instagram.com/p/BfQ0K9cnAZX/?maxwidth=1000We were able to get a bit more information about what happened from the French rider:
| It happened so fast. The worst thing is that I didn’t see it coming. I was just training hard, like always, pushing my limits the most I can. That's why I love training and racing, just to see how far I can push myself. I was ready to enjoy the Andes Pacifico - new trails, meeting new people. I was excited to go there. A week before the race, I got a big headache. I checked with a doctor and then he told me to go to a specialist.
I planned the appointment with a specialist on the Monday before the Andes. When they saw me, they sent me as fast as possible to the emergency, in Santiago. My heart was really fast in a resting position and my blood pressure was dangerously high. They told me that my heart was going to stop if I continued high-level sport or if I rode at elevation during the Andes Pacifico race. I could die the doctors said. That was so terrifying because I thought I just had a headache. Then they gave me some drugs to calm my body, and I had to sleep a lot.
So now my state is okay, because I'm just resting. But it’s so scary that I was in this situation a few days ago when I was feeling good the past week.
As a rider, I’m used to crashing, having injuries, being in pain when I do sprints or 5-hour road bike rides - my body is ready for painful moments. And I have a good feeling with the pain because it’s my everyday workout! Actually, I was in a good form and didn’t recognize that it was really dangerous for my body to push too much. So now the next step for me is just to keep the smile on my face - I’m alive.
I would like to tell everybody that’s good to have a passion that gives you a big smile every day when you wake up! But the most important thing ever is your health. Just take care of yourself.—Thomas Lapeyrie |
Our thoughts are with you, and we're wishing you the best for a speedy recovery Thomas!
I know what it certainly contains... Saturated fat, cholesterol, heme iron, methionine. Not taking in consideration the lead exposure you get from wild meat because you obviously ripped the animal apart alive with your massive canines.
Me waiting for the hate bullets:
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Grass fed, free range, game meat, IN MODERATION can be more beneficial than a fully Vegan diet. Time your meals, separate fruits and veggies from meat, dairy, etc so that you avoid rot gut and do other things to help your body digest your varying diet properly. Veganism is not the answer, it's ONE of the MANY solutions.
Don't take your Vegan guilt and swing it around, you'll find yourself hitting your self in the head eventually. There's more than one way to live a healthy life so do it your way, I'll do it mine.
Respect to those who do it, just do the same for those who choose to live their healthy life differently.
@RideTahoe707: (y)
Which athletes in what sports, what are their results? How does their day look like? How do they compensate? What are the chances I can get on their diet without flipping my life upside down. Because a pro athlete has way more time to train a wank over his nutrition than Most people do.
Dude here surely had some particular issue. If you push your body too hard then in majority of cases you over train and get slower than you were. I hope they figure out what’s his problem and he can get back on his bike. All the best.
From WHO (doesnt sound like they are pushimg vegan??)
16. Should I stop eating meat?
Eating meat has known health benefits. Many national health recommendations advise people to limit intake of processed meat and red meat, which are linked to increased risks of death from heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses.
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From WHO
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7. Red meat was classified as Group 2A, probably carcinogenic to humans. What does this mean exactly?
In the case of red meat, the classification is based on limited evidence from epidemiological studies showing positive associations between eating red meat and developing colorectal cancer as well as strong mechanistic evidence.
Limited evidence means that a positive association has been observed between exposure to the agent and cancer but that other explanations for the observations (technically termed chance, bias, or confounding) could not be ruled out."
Repeat after me. Correlation does nkt equal causation. These studies can not conclusive prove it increases risk because they never account for other factors. Plus in terms of the stronger evidence of increased risk with processed meat (lunch meat, hot dogs bolanga etc) the increase is still pretty negligible.
@inverted180 I can see @colincolin go around onkology unit in his town and tell everyone that it’s their fault cuz they were eating red meat... There was a woman at my work who survived thyroid cancer, she started reading after she got home from chemo and then she started talking to us what food and clothing gives us cancer. It was unbearable... if anyone felt pity for her in the beginning, after few months we were wishing her the worst. Every fkng lunch with her was dissection of how terrible is what we eat
Meh soon they will be able to grow animal protein (meat) in a lab and we we can stop talking about the animal cruelty aspect.
Hey being a dick is fun! I like it.
Just a theory, don't know if I believe it.
For all the comments about it being related to 1) diet, or 2) drugs. Shame on you. Shame on you for making assumptions. Shame on you for claiming to have the answer with very limited facts. Shame on you for deciding that you know better than highly trained and educated specialists. No doctor in the world would ever jump to conclusions like this without having all the possible information they could in hand.
About all that absurd conversation about the diet that started in the comment section... please...
first principle of toxicology: everything is toxic, it just depends on the dosage. And most things are good in part and bad in part..so please stop coming out with perfect truths about single aliments!
What are the chances this can happen to a person who is only consuming proper food but has a ridiculous training regiment as opposed to someone who is on an improper cocktail of supplements (legal or illegal)?
From a long term heart health perspective, professional sport is perhaps not the healthiest thing to do for your heart and the rest of you body. Being fit and healthy in a recreational sense and not 'redlining' your heart in every training session is great for long term health. You just wont ever win anything, I prefer strength and power myself... thats what I tell myself at least as endurance fit folk ride off on me
(Gasps)
Surely not!!
No wonder if one collapses due to this kind of stress.
If supplements played a role? Not necessarily in my opinion.
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i will happily take it off your hands and you can have 30$