As well, I would like to publicly thank the local crew, whom I never got to know. My goal now is to figure out what went wrong. A diagnosis is important. In summary, I believe an unfamiliar sports drink, combined with a particular gel and perhaps the five Ibuprofen, led to a sensitive stomach. This resulted in diarrhea, precipitating my demise.
Diarrhea is insidious.
It is likely most nutrients passed right through my gastro-intestinal tract. It is possible the drinking water may have had a role in magnifying the factors which aggravated my condition. I also believe that a questionably fortified sports drink led to a depletion of electrolytes on the hot and steamy day. During the latter stages of the race, my cognitive and motor functions diminished at a quick rate. From my understanding, my body and brain, full of water that lacked adequate sodium, began to lose its ability to correctly conduct neurological or muscular impulses, eventually slowing and then seizing.