Making sure you have enough carbohydrate
before you start the event is essential. Eat as much carbohydrate
as possible on the 2 days prior to the event, I recommend a pasta
party!!
Do not have a large cooked breakfast on
the Saturday morning . During hard exercise blood is diverted
away from your stomach to provide energy and oxygen for your
leg muscles eta, a cooked breakfast would just sit there not
being able to be digested ! making you feel ill.
You need to take lots of energy type of
foods with high carbos, like Power bars cliff bars, you could
also take sweets like jelly babies and joosters which are high
in carbohydrates. Eat these during the event on Saturday and
make sure you save some for Sunday. I would take 3 large bags
of jelly babies and 3 cliff type power bars.
Use your favorite energy powder in your
drink. Take Sachets of this and keep them to hand in your backpack.
The volume of fluid will depend on the weather, but 3 bottles
is a minimum. There are often places one can fill up on the way
round (pubs, garden taps, shops, and streams). Check on the maps
for public toilets as these are good places to fill up your water
bottle.
On Saturday Evening eat as much carbohydrate
within 20 minutes of finishing this is a time when rapid replenishment
of glycogen can occur. The food for the rest of the evening is
largely determined by personal preference but should be high
in carbs and low in fat. A good food I would use is Beanfeast
mixed with super noodles, on the evening We ate a packet of noodles
and bean feast each. We had a meal as soon as we arrived and
them one later about 8pm.
We also drank, drank and drank more ,
Cups of tea, water and Hot chocolate. I wish we had taken more
hot chocolate, it also warms you UP!
Sunday morning Drink some more ,(Tea)
and we ate a couple of nutra grain bars each. |
