Water bottle freezing/cooling in cold weather

HardyEustace

I've only started to carry a water bottle in a holder with me this time round. Last night, on a long run, by the end of the run it was relatively late 9:30ish.

Anyway, the temperature dropped down - could see my breath! However the water in the water bottle was so cold that I actually got stomach cramps after drinking it. Has this happened to anyone before?

<clutching at straws> anyway round it? </clutching at straws>

And yes, going faster and generating more body heat did cross my mind!

BeepBeep67

You need to changed your user name to <SoftyEustace>

Seriously though, how far are you running?
If it's less than 90mins, just make sure you are hydrated before you start.

tunney

Did a early morning session a while back, did first hour fasted. Had breakfast in liquid form to have after that. Froze rock solid.

shels4ever

HardyEustace wrote: »

I've only started to carry a water bottle in a holder with me this time round. Last night, on a long run, by the end of the run it was relatively late 9:30ish.

Anyway, the temperature dropped down - could see my breath! However the water in the water bottle was so cold that I actually got stomach cramps after drinking it. Has this happened to anyone before?

<clutching at straws> anyway round it? </clutching at straws>

And yes, going faster and generating more body heat did cross my mind!

Maybe some antifreeze will do the trick

A drop of wiskey might solve the problem but not really ideal.

HardyEustace

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

You need to changed your user name to <SoftyEustace>

Seriously though, how far are you running?
If it's less than 90mins, just make sure you are hydrated before you start.

This is my long run. Due to weekend commitments had to push it out till last night. Working it back towards the weekend again!

tunney wrote: »

Did a early morning session a while back, did first hour fasted. Had breakfast in liquid form to have after that. Froze rock solid.

Jaysus... how early in the morning was that?

shels4ever wrote: »

Maybe some antifreeze will do the trick

A drop of wiskey might solve the problem but not really ideal.

On the otherhand, would be feeling no pain by the end of the evening.

tunney

HardyEustace wrote: »

Jaysus... how early in the morning was that?

Five, five thirty. Was minus 7 or so.

Magnet

A Camelback carrying 1 litre, its small enough for your lsr`s and it can`t freeze being against your back - mine never got warm on anything up to 20 miles..

HardyEustace

tunney wrote: »

Five, five thirty. Was minus 7 or so.

OMG.

Were you not worried about slipping on ice?

mitresize5

Left the swimming gear in the car overnight last Jan and when I went to put them on the following morning the were frozen solid .... didnt see the little fella for a week!!

absolutely no use to the OP but sharing is caring

earnyourturns

TTFU :P Yeah happened to me last year when I was doing a 12 miler when it was about minus 10 in Canada. By the end of the run it had frozen solid all around the cap and couldn't drink it at all.

grimbergen

obvious solution would be to carry it in your hand which some people seem to be good at. Not me, I find the bottle a tonne weight by the end of the run....

hot to trot

thought that comes to mind is to put a small clean marble in the bottle. The agitations would stop the liquid freezing, especially if you put warm water in it at the start. Sonia O Sullivan gave a tip once to hold a mouthful of the cold water in your mouth before swallowing it ., to warm it up a bit and stop tummy cramps.

McConkey

Tesco's are selling a Thermos bottle for about e9 at the moment ca. 450ml capacity. It has a removable reservoir (ice tube) inside...as the bottle is dishwasher safe, I assume it would be fine to fill some (almost?) boiling water into the reservoir which might help to keep the rest of it thawed for your runs.

I'd say your drinking water wouldn't want to be too cold going into the bottle though as the reservoir isn't huge...might be worth a try though.

Whitehawk

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