Sub 3Hr Marathon
312 watchers
Oct 2019
4:26pm, 15 Oct 2019
5,519 posts
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jda
Feel like I've got a hint of a cold and on checking my past tapers I'm due a day or two off anyway. I'm not worried by it, yesterday's run was particularly bouncy and I see the last time I did that loop at that speed was......the Monday before Mancs this spring 
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Oct 2019
9:21pm, 16 Oct 2019
334 posts
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Lee78
Hope everything is going well with all you lovely people running 26.2 miles this Sunday! šš» Just a couple of questions 1) What do you find are quick and easy things to eat for carb loading? 2) Also on race day, how do you guys carry your gels? |
Oct 2019
9:51pm, 16 Oct 2019
279 posts
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icenutter
Pre- race fodder is cornflakes, white bread with jam, and bananas. Quickly through your system, ahem. Gel wise I use one of those hideous belt things triathletes love. |
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Oct 2019
9:58pm, 16 Oct 2019
5,537 posts
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jda
I don't carry gels (though may grab one if offered) but have a small bag of jelly babies pinned to my shorts. Attached on outside front left leg and flip the bag up and inside when not in use. Not sure where I learnt this from, it works great and you don't know it's there when running. As for carbs, I'm booked in for pizza on Saturday night and will have a generous pile of granola with trimmings for breakfast. Maybe something else too as I'm in a BnB this time. Though I'll take my own stuff to be safe. |
Oct 2019
10:10pm, 16 Oct 2019
15,413 posts
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Bazoaxe
Pasta for me night before. Porage in the morning and gels in a belt thing.
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Oct 2019
12:00am, 17 Oct 2019
113 posts
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Daddy Shark
Gel pinning: I use option two on here... guenergy.com Carb loading: Rice with plum sauce. I find most pasta sauces are too high in fat to satisfy my obsessive need to achieve 80+% of calories from carbs. On race morning a large bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes plus a banana. |
Oct 2019
6:43am, 17 Oct 2019
1,715 posts
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Little Miss Happy
I have pockets in my trail shorts which take gels and my inhaler. Always used to have pasta with a basic tomato sauce and a little fish the night before a race but am experimenting with white rice and fish due to GI issues which have become worse over the last two years. White bread, pancakes, cereal, cake (gluten and dairy free in my case) for carb loading over the last three days, oat and (soya) yogurt based breakfast with a white bread and jam/honey/banana/whatever top up if required. Hope it's just taper madness jda. My RHR is down 7bpm this morning so I'm hopefully over whatever was ailing me. |
Oct 2019
7:05am, 17 Oct 2019
4,296 posts
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Windsor Wool
option 6 in that Gu link (welcome DS, great name, do, do, do, do, do, do!!). Tight shorts with the gels stuffed in the waistband. Pin them on if thereās a worry about losing them. I need to get the Doreen loaf out today. Thatās my carb go-to. Thanks for the reminder, Iām all a bit relaxed this taper-around. |
Oct 2019
7:30am, 17 Oct 2019
427 posts
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Sjjh
I love Doreenās loaves š
banana is my favourite. I could eat a whole one sitting at my desk in work. šÆ
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Oct 2019
8:54am, 17 Oct 2019
5,539 posts
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jda
Ah, my version with the sweetie bag is basically the same as the pinned gel pic in that link. I always think the external belts look a bit flappy and I've seen people lose gels off them. Any races planned DS? Off for my final couple of km at MP in the magic shoes shortly. Definitely on top of the cold now (conservative decision made to bin swimming last night) and I'm starting to feel quite bouncy... |
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