Pre-race diets

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Velociraptor Sep 2015 7:53pm, 25 Sep 2015 32,837 posts	0 Velociraptor I'll usually avoid any food that's likely to give me the squits (most plants, artificial sweeteners) for a day or two before a significant race, and although my alcohol consumption is normally negligible I like to have a non-intoxicating dose of along with plenty of dinner the night before a race. I've tried tweaking my diet in various ways to try to improve my performance or tame my irritable bowel, and seem to do best on the opposite of a "healthy" diet - lots of foods of animal origin, sugar, and refined starch, and very few green leaves and wholegrains.
Reinhold Messner Sep 2015 10:27pm, 25 Sep 2015 716 posts	0 Reinhold Messner 1/ No - but night before a race (any distance down to 1500m) tries to be low in fat. No scientific basis for this, I just prefer it. 2/ Day before. 3/ I give up un-Catholic acts for three days prior to a race. 4/ I learned to avoid muesli on race day in 2013 because of the post-race digestive issues (inc blood 2 days later). Other than that, no. 5/ It's basically normal because I try to not eat/drink shit at the best of times. The best advice is don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Reinhold Messner Sep 2015 10:27pm, 25 Sep 2015 717 posts	0 Reinhold Messner 1/ No - but night before a race (any distance down to 1500m) tries to be low in fat. No scientific basis for this, I just prefer it. 2/ Day before. 3/ I give up un-Catholic acts for three days prior to a race. 4/ I learned to avoid muesli on race day in 2013 because of the post-race digestive issues (inc blood 2 days later). Other than that, no. 5/ It's basically normal because I try to not eat/drink shit at the best of times. The best advice is don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
Reinhold Messner Sep 2015 10:28pm, 25 Sep 2015 718 posts	0 Reinhold Messner Double post because I am doubly uncool.
Mark J Sep 2015 8:40am, 26 Sep 2015 1,567 posts	0 Mark J Great feedback, thanks all.