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Re: food - before long runs and race

dutch omi — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:37:50 GMT

Somehow my eggs, bacon, toast and coffee seem to get me thru most long runs and marathons. During, snickers bars, water, some gatorade and banana and orange. All that keeps me running. The day before, pasta, pizza, potatoes, anything carb and add chicken or fish to that and needless to say some nice carbie dessert.

Re: food - before long runs and race

Ruby_2009 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:28:41 GMT

thefirecat wrote:

Ruby_2008 wrote:
Oh it's just a bet my husband and I have going. We're trying to see if it's possible to cut it out for an entire year. If he wins, I have to buy him a nice road bike. If I win, he has to run a marathon , which he has no desire to do. Haven't thought about a reward , if we both make it.

We've both been feeling the benefits of being caffeine free. We're both less stressed and anxious. He says I'm much nicer now.

Rubes, I'd forgotten all about that bet! I'm also willing to be that he didn't htink you were much nicer while you were both detoxing.

I think the prize should be that he gets a mountain bike AND has to run a marathon. :)And you can tell him I said so.

Why Sara, that's absolutely brilliant!! I'll let you know what he says.

Re: food - before long runs and race

KarlD_Navy84 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:45:58 GMT

Prior to my long run, I usually have a Clif Bar and maybe half a bagel with a smoothie drink about 45 minutes to an hour prior. During the run, I have my sports drink and lately I have been trying a cut up Clif Bar. I can usually wash down the first half of it, which I usually consume about 45 minutes into the run. But sometimes I don't eat the rest of it because I just don't feel like washing it down. They can be pretty dry. The Clif Shots get stuck in my teeth. So for tomorrow's run I am going to go with Vanilla gels again, but I am also going peel and segment a couple oranges and see how that works. I'll put them in a zip loc bag. I think that might work better than the orange slices they give us in the race because my hands won't get all sticky. Oranges don't have quite as many carbs as a Clif Bar, but they will be much easier to get down. I figure I can eat a couple during my run. The one thing I will be checking for is potential reflux due to the acidity. That's usually not an issue for me, but then again, I've never eaten oranges while running. I will provide a report on how that worked on my long run update tomorrow. Talk to you soon.

Karl

Re: food - before long runs and race

lenzlaw — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:06:47 GMT

Before the marathon (3 hours before) about 600 - 700 calories worth of bagels and/or Powerbars (1 hour before) 20 of sports drink (Gatorade usually).

Before a long run (1 hour before) Powerbar or the like.

During (both) sports drink (preferred) or water, as tolerated, gels sometimes, whatever else comes to hand, again as tolerated. In the later stages of the race, pretty much nothing is well tolerated. Thus my prior comment about throwing up Gatorade.

Len

Re: food - before long runs and race

lenzlaw — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:54:04 GMT

x_39_and_holding_x wrote:

FormerBAM wrote:

x_39_and_holding_x wrote:

I'm with Tuan. . . except I don't do yogurt so just throw gatorade up there.

Throwing up Gatorade doesn't sound all that fun.

Well, have you TRIED it?!?!?!

Well, yes . . . It's not too bad, as those things go.

Re: food - before long runs and race

thefirecat — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:21:16 GMT

Ruby_2008 wrote:

Oh it's just a bet my husband and I have going. We're trying to see if it's possible to cut it out for an entire year. If he wins, I have to buy him a nice road bike. If I win, he has to run a marathon , which he has no desire to do. Haven't thought about a reward , if we both make it.

We've both been feeling the benefits of being caffeine free. We're both less stressed and anxious. He says I'm much nicer now.

Rubes, I'd forgotten all about that bet! I'm also willing to be that he didn't htink you were much nicer while you were both detoxing.

I think the prize should be that he gets a mountain bike AND has to run a marathon. And you can tell him I said so.

Re: food - before long runs and race

Ruby_2009 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:53:17 GMT

We've both been feeling the benefits of being caffeine free. We're both less stressed and anxious. He says I'm much nicer now.

Re: food - before long runs and race

TampaTom — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:53:48 GMT

Ruby, why did you give up the coffee?

Re: food - before long runs and race

Ruby_2009 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:37:54 GMT

I'm boring. I usually like to have a 1/2 bagel or a 1/2 pb&j sandwich and a banana. I used to love a cup of coffee with that, but now I just wash it all down with water.

Re: food - before long runs and race

TampaTom — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:51:12 GMT

Before the long run or race day: banana, granola bar, and a cup of coffee.

During the run I drink plenty of water and gatorade plus I eat Gu after an hour of running and every 45 minutes thereafter.