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Re: [at-l] 100 degrees

> I have 
>watched several super duper athletic men in the Army with Greek 
>god-like physiques who were in perfect cardiovascular shape drop like 
>flies in the face of heat exhaution. 

I'll second that!  Nasty bad stuff...  Once was on a ruckmarch in
temperatures that were right up there.  I'd been feeling kind of dizzy and
was downing the water like it was going out of style, but then I started
feeling like I couldn't breathe and started to hyperventilate.  It was okay
after a while of sitting in the shade & being doused with water but I felt
pretty stupid -- that is until I heard that, at around the same time, the
absolute *fittest*, biggest guy in our platoon had flaked out from the heat
too - started speaking gibberish and pretty much all but had his head start
spinning around on him.  Jeez! =:-O

Take care & drink so much water you can hear it sloshing inside of you,
Cindi

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