Long gone are the days of the traditional carb load.
Which basically meant smashing in as much pasta as you could the night before a race.
Funnily, many events and clubs still put on an all you can eat pasta fest the night before their race.
Going out to race hard though is NOT an excuse to eat an enormous amount of useless calories.
The truth is, good race day nutrition starts well in advance of race day.
It begins in the weeks and months leading up to your main race.
If you eat well and appropriately for your body type, you will train your body to utilise the fuel you consume more efficiently.
For example, if you begin to increase the quantity of certain high quality fats your body will become better at burning all fats.
As fats are the slowest burning of fuels sources, this will mean you can go faster for longer on race day.
Faster for longer without needing to take on the processed slime that is otherwise referred to as gels!
If you get this right, then it is just a matter of increasing your non processed carbs on the days leading up to race day.
This combined with a taper will lead to increased glycogen stores which essentially has the effect of giving moe available energy.
Combined with the bodies ability to utilise fat more effectively you are on to a winner.
Both performance wise and from a fat loss perspective.
So if your day to day nutrition is NOT right, sort that before worrying about the days leading up to race day.
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How many calories and when.
How many carbs and which types.
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