Help me with this.
An acquaintance is planning to begin racing this year and may
join me on some trail races. also, a road marathon. Now, I
lay no claim to KNOWLEDGE, but I do have more
experience than he does, so quite naturally, he is asking
me for some advice.
One of the areas is race nutrition.
For the shorter races, we have no real issues. Just drink
water and eat some gels.
For the marathon distance, I proposed my theory that
since we should have enough glucose in us for about
20 miles, all we need to do is add sufficient to complete
the 6 that are left over. Let's say 18 and 8 to give
a comfort zone. So, at about 150 cal/mile, we need
to shove back 8 times 150 equals about 1000 cal. plus.
So the plan is to eat early and often. Splitting the intake
between 4 or so tasty gels, some ju-jubes, some cookies
and adding some liquid carbs too.
This has worked for me so I'll be using this concept
again this year. But I don't want to foist it on anyone
else if it's full-of-it.
thanks for any comments...thehick