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Olympic nutrition

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  • 25-05-2015 10:50am
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    shansey
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭


    Curious as to what peoples preferred race day rituals are for food.. from breakfast to during and after..maybe even night before..


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    iAcesHigh
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    This is a huge topic but I'll do a quick summary. In general, the day before I would eat little over salted food, sometimes it would be some pasta and sometimes even a steak (more relaxed :P ). In the morning of the race I prefer some fruit and then eggs with olive oil and crushed almonds and during the race I have different "receipt" from my coach (mostly carbs with a bit of proteins, salt and l-carnitine but it depends on the weather/distance/goal). After the race I take some fruit and preferably soup (Lough Cutra Triathlon had fantastic beans and quinoa soup). Later in the day I would probably eat some extra proteins, chicken or similar...


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    joey100
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    Nothing too different from normal to be honest. Night before some pasta and chicken, probably what I have most Friday nights anyway. Probably have porridge for breakfast and then depending on the start time a small lunch, for Carlow I brought along some ham sandwiches and had them around 1.5hrs before the race started. During the race had some jellies. Find this works better for me than a big change, keep it to what you know and what you know works well for your.


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    mossym
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    porridge or weetabix and muesli pre race. fluids leading up to the race. 1 gel early on the bike, and another somewhere around t2.

    something with sugar directly afterwards, drink or food, and then normal food for the rest of the day


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    shansey
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭shansey


    I was planning on a bagel with ham for breakfast about 2.5 hours before hand, 2 gels on the bike and about 3/4 bottle water.. maybe some luco sport beforehand..


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    Shedite27
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    Granola and yogurt before I leave home.

    Nature Valley bar bout 30mns before start.

    Probably 2 gels on the bike (one at bout 7/8k, one at about 35k).

    Anything afterwards (the petrol station opposite Triathy carpark sells 99's)


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    shansey
    Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭shansey


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Anything afterwards (the petrol station opposite Triathy carpark sells 99's)

    See you there!!


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