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 Originally Posted by Vinland
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I keep hearing that I should eat a carb based meal about 3 hrs before the race. The race is at 7am and I have to be there about 6:30am, does that mean I'm waking up at 3am to make a meal and go back to sleep?
finish eating 2hrs before is fine. Get up around 4:15-4:30am. Have breakfast, make sure you've finished eating it by 5am. Don't go back to sleep. I mean, you have to get to the race start point by 6:30ish anyway, so you're not getting any more meaningful sleep in. By the time ten months from now rolls around you will have done a bunch of runs starting about 2 hrs after you've finished breakfast, so you'll know how your body deals with it.
the other main school of thought is big carb rich meal about 12hrs before, then very light breakfast on the day. I don't like this so much, but that's mostly cos i'm fine with running relatively soon after eating.
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