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Ironman Canada Nutrition Report

After a respectable day out an Ironman Canada 2010, here's a quick recap of what went down the hatch. This race is always hot, so I had that plan dialed in...complete with sodium loading the day before. Well, they started calling for cooler weather so we (Heather and I) backed off the sodium loading, but stuck with our normal race plan for calories and hydration. It actually ended up being REALLY damn cold...but it all worked out pretty good. No stomach issues, just one slight crack in the la

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Added by Trevor Wurtele on August 31, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Sodium Loading Video

By Heather & Trevor Wurtele

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Added by Robert Kunz on August 26, 2010 at 10:25am — No Comments

Leadville 100 2010: 17:43

(Note: 2009 was a great season for me with many great results. However, the one weakness to my ultra-running career was with my training and racing fueling strategy. I felt like a blind guy playing darts bouncing from idea to idea and 'wishing' that something would work. Beginning in the fall of 2009, I went on a rese

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Added by Duncan Callahan on August 26, 2010 at 9:21am — No Comments

End of the road season

Been a long hard season- looks like I will end up 3rd in the BAR, and just set a PR in the State Senior TT at Stoney Creek taking 2 mins off my time. Thanks First Endurance!! Continue

Added by Eric Fletcher on August 23, 2010 at 11:25am — No Comments

Boulder 70.3 Nutrition and Update

Boulder 70.3

Night before the race I had my typical Quinoa pasta and chicken added pasta sauce and salt with heaps of water and some electrolyte drink...

Morning of the race I woke up 3 hours prior and had a cup of gluten free oats with a table spoon of almond butter. Water and coffee

30minutes prior to the race I had a few swigs of EFS, a gel and water

Bike:

2 bottles, one 24OZ in cage

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Added by Rebecca Witinok-Huber on August 20, 2010 at 11:19am — No Comments

Daisy Pass Run

Tim and I headed up to Crested Butte last Friday to do a fantastic run above 10,000' with several good climbs. We had perfect weather for a tree-line run and this fueled our positive attitude as we made our way up the initial climb, Gunsight Pass, which lies at 12,000' just north of town. After this first 3000' climb we

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Added by Duncan Callahan on August 13, 2010 at 6:25am — No Comments

70.3 Calgary Nutrition Report

This race had an early start, so breakfast was at 3:30AM. One cinnamon raison bagal, one EFS bar, one serving of Optygen/Multi-V and one cup of coffee.

Over the next 2.5hrs sipped on 750ml bottle of EFS grape(2 scoops)

10 minutes before swim start one fuel belt bottle with one scoop EFS grape and one scoop Pre Race.

Bike: Two 750ml bottles of EFS Grape/One 750ml bottle EFS Fruit punch (all with 3 scoops)

200 Calories of liquid shot washed down with water

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Added by Robert Shypitka on August 5, 2010 at 8:18pm — 2 Comments

IM UK Nutrition Report

I've just returned from racing Ironman UK last Sunday where I placed 4th in the pro women.

For breakfast race morning I had : a bowl of oatmeal, 4 pieces of toast with jam and cheese, 2 cups of tea, 3 First Endurance Multi-V's and 4 Optygen.

Prior to the swim start, I sipped on 100 calories of EFS Drink.

On the bike it was cold/rainy so I followed my usual cold weather nutrition plan (taking in more calories overall and

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Added by Donna Phelan on August 5, 2010 at 8:08am — No Comments

Simplicity. 17 days 'til Leadville

Howdy again. I thought I'd make sure to get up two posts this afternoon, knowing that it has been a while since I have posted consistently which is of course pretty lame to say the least. I have been increasingly aware that I am not the model of emotional and mental stability I once thought! As it turns out, when the run

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Added by Duncan Callahan on August 4, 2010 at 3:56pm — No Comments

Big Horn 100 2010

It is absolutely ridiculous that it has been 7 weeks since I ran in the Big Horn 100 and I have yet to provide an account from the race. So it goes. This summer has been one of transition for me, and as I look toward the future it has been challenging to put in words races that have already been run. This summer has been great in many ways and the final countdown to the Leadville 100 is upon us. Look for another post shortly. As for the Big Horn 100: The Big Horn 100 started on Friday, June 18t… Continue

Added by Duncan Callahan on August 4, 2010 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Big Horn 100 2010

Added by Duncan Callahan on August 4, 2010 at 3:47pm — No Comments

Steelhead: Nutrition is Dialed!

Having raced primarily 70.3 events last season, I felt that I was really able to get a solid handle on my nutrition for those shorter, faster events. (I fully appreciate the irony that I now consider a half ironman a "short" event.)

Heading up to Steelhead, I was sure unsure of how my body would handle the return to high-intensity racing (after Coeur d'Alene); however, I had a good feeling my body would have no trouble from a nutritional standpoint.

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Added by Michael Lovato on August 3, 2010 at 1:16pm — No Comments

PRing at Troika Half Ironman

Sunday Aug. 1st 2010, marked the 30th anniversary of Troika here in Spokane. After my last race, I was left wanting to figure out what went wrong and what better than a local Half Iron to test my theories, even though my last race was slower than would have liked, it wasnt a time goal I was after it was a solid race execution which would give a better idea on my up coming race 4 wks from this one. With a current course change and my personal battle with the dist… Continue

Added by Matt Cusack on August 3, 2010 at 9:41am — 1 Comment

1st WIN.....Steelhead 70.3

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Added by JPC on August 1, 2010 at 7:41pm — 3 Comments

Vineman 70.3

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Added by JPC on July 27, 2010 at 1:37pm — No Comments

IM Lake Placid

I have to say my nutrition for my last 3 Ironmans have been spot on thanks to First Endurance products. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and with that motto, I have been using the EFS and EFS Liquid shot for all my races and have not been disappointed.

Breakfast- Yogurt and Koala Krisp cereal
Banana with Almond butter

Bike- 600 calories of EFS Liquid Shot
600 calories of EFS
Gummy worms
Milky Way (which I ate at the half way point)
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Added by Amy Marsh on July 26, 2010 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick. Gotta love it!!!

I travel quite a bit in my job. Sometimes I will go to a plant and find they have facilities where I can stick with my normal routine and run at lunch and the ride later that evening. But sometimes that just doesn't seem to work out. Last week was one of those weeks. I'm just one of those people who really does not like to get out of bed before dawn to workout, race yes, train no. As a result, I take advantage of those weeks to do some bricks. I did a reverse brick (run- bike), and standard b

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Added by Andy Rosebrook on July 23, 2010 at 8:10pm — No Comments

Leadville Silver Rush 50 Miler 2010

Hello all. The Leadville Silver Rush 50 miler on July 18th proved to be the turn-around result that I needed. For the better part of the season since May 1

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Added by Duncan Callahan on July 22, 2010 at 3:23pm — No Comments