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Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Just curious, is this your first race? I've never heard of a plan that would suggest the bolded.

Not first race - so lots of experience.

I’m not racing this. I’m just doing my aerobic run for half Ironman training I would otherwise do on Sunday on Saturday. A change of venue and lots of my other friends are doing this. I’ll hit 13.1 at my planned 1:40 anyways. I pretty much do that every weekend during “on” build weeks anyways.

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Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Yeah, it was beginner, but I didn’t do most of the runs during the week. Just the long runs on the weekends and also lifted weights during the week (tapering off heavy leg days the last couple weeks).

I did practice race nutrition and conservatively did only 2 gels. Now I wonder if I should have done more, but probably too late to add another right?

I would leave that alone. You are very unlikely to metabolically blow up. It takes a lot of time to train taking in carbs like that. You’ll do great!!

Thanks. How does one even carry 4-5 gels during a race?

Trisuit have a bunch of pockets. And Ironman (or other races) have aid stations with gels anyways. I almost never go through what I stick in my pockets honestly.

Gotcha! Enjoy your training run/race!

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Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Yeah, it was beginner, but I didn’t do most of the runs during the week. Just the long runs on the weekends and also lifted weights during the week (tapering off heavy leg days the last couple weeks).

I did practice race nutrition and conservatively did only 2 gels. Now I wonder if I should have done more, but probably too late to add another right?

I would leave that alone. You are very unlikely to metabolically blow up. It takes a lot of time to train taking in carbs like that. You’ll do great!!

Thanks. How does one even carry 4-5 gels during a race?

Trisuit have a bunch of pockets. And Ironman (or other races) have aid stations with gels anyways. I almost never go through what I stick in my pockets honestly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Yeah, it was beginner, but I didn’t do most of the runs during the week. Just the long runs on the weekends and also lifted weights during the week (tapering off heavy leg days the last couple weeks).

I did practice race nutrition and conservatively did only 2 gels. Now I wonder if I should have done more, but probably too late to add another right?

I would leave that alone. You are very unlikely to metabolically blow up. It takes a lot of time to train taking in carbs like that. You’ll do great!!

Thanks. How does one even carry 4-5 gels during a race?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Just curious, is this your first race? I've never heard of a plan that would suggest the bolded.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Yeah, it was beginner, but I didn’t do most of the runs during the week. Just the long runs on the weekends and also lifted weights during the week (tapering off heavy leg days the last couple weeks).

I did practice race nutrition and conservatively did only 2 gels. Now I wonder if I should have done more, but probably too late to add another right?

I would leave that alone. You are very unlikely to metabolically blow up. It takes a lot of time to train taking in carbs like that. You’ll do great!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Yeah, it was beginner, but I didn’t do most of the runs during the week. Just the long runs on the weekends and also lifted weights during the week (tapering off heavy leg days the last couple weeks).

I did practice race nutrition and conservatively did only 2 gels. Now I wonder if I should have done more, but probably too late to add another right?

Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.

Anonymous wrote:Should I eat more calories or carbs the latter half of this week? I have not been doing so as I don’t have an appetite.

I am obviously not doing any hard runs or hard leg days the rest of the week (I did legs on Monday), but should I continue to lift as I normally would to keep my blood flow and for flexibility?

I plan to pick my race outfit soon and thinking I’ll do a simple pasta and chicken for dinner Friday evening and a light oatmeal breakfast before the run.

Thursday or Friday is packet pick-up. I will have to take the metro Saturday morning to the race.

What else should I factor in/ plan for?

Anonymous wrote:Did you use a plan? If so, do what the plan says. What you do leading up to the race and volume is entirely based on a plan and your experience level. I’ll run for ~1 hour Friday morning with some 4x4 at my real marathon pace. I decided to do it this morning as my long run. I’ll have to go and buy a bib from the expo.

For food, I would just cut down on fiber the last two days to avoid having a poopin problem. That’s what I do for long course triathlon.

In race nutrition I would hope you practiced by now. I plan to put there for 1:35-1:40, so ~1.7 hours x 50-60g (what I usually do at the end of a half Ironman off the bike for nutrition in gel form) = 4-5 gels. I’m doing that not so much to avoid blowing up, but to speed recovery afterwards. I’ll still do my bike/run on Sunday.