Adventure Racing #13: Food for a Short Race

[@guidojoe11]

Thank you AR on AR! My wife and I just completed a virtual AR here in BC Canada called MOMAR, Mind Over Mountain Adventure Race. It was cancelled this year of course but the organizers created a great virtual one. We both have been watching your videos and kept you very important tips and insights during our little VAR. I hope we see more videos soon!

[@ARonAR]

Hehehe, excellent! Yes, get out there and have a crazy adventure, it's the perfect recipe for sanity 😁

[@WoolyJumper5]

Really helpful, thanks AR

[@busby-groundwaterrecharge4527]

Can you do a video on food for an expedition race?

[@ARonAR]

Yup, it's WELL overdue. But, I will get to it. :)

[@user-zd1wx6qx8v]

@@ARonAR Definitely looking forward to that, I pressume you are a sports nutrionist by now :-). Specially things like salt intake (and how much), low-carbs diets, and stuff like supplements (vitamins etc.) during a long multi day race.

[@Abby-bl6mt]

Excellent content!

[@scany1980]

Another great video. Thank you!

[@captainnicolasdubois]

Thank you, I just did a 24hr rogaine feeding exclusively on sweet food and my partner ended up like Daniel at the Eco challenge haha. And to make things better it was just on time with a heavy rain event... which brings my next comment: - How to prepare for the different types of weather? (especially heavy rain)

[@ARonAR]

Good question. Yep, will address that. Essentially it's about layering, and accepting you're going to get wet no matter what you wear, and then developing strategies to deal with it.

[@XEinstein]

5:17 my problem is that I still get sick to the stomach on race day even if I'm only racing with nutrition that worked just fine during training

[@ARonAR]

Understood. I guess it's probably stress-related - the mental pressure cooker of race day, or are you pushing yourself much harder on race day than during training? I can't think of anything else, if it's a regular occurrence. Q: what are you eating? Specifically. 🤔

[@XEinstein]

@@ARonAR it think it's definitely the added stress of race day. I don't think I'm pushing harder though, but mainly longer. Through trail and lots of error I've learned I needed more salt and less sweets. Sausages work very well for me, but I still never race without feeling sick.

[@ARonAR]

@@XEinstein Another factor could be how much you eat pre-race, or during the race. I never carbo-load, and often do fasted training. IF you haven't tried that, it's definitely a good idea. Sometimes I'll start an ultra having only eaten half a cup of Greek yoghurt and a coffee with double cream, and not eating anything else for the first 5hrs etc. :)

[@XEinstein]

@@ARonAR interesting. I find that now after five years of training my endurance, I now need less food when I'm out on my longer weekend trainings than I needed when I started, so there surely seems to be some merit in not eating too much. Perhaps. I'll see if I can get that worked into some trainings.

[@bowendouglas1221]

Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to the next instalment! I've recently started using Tailwind and really like the product. I had no digestive issues, the flavours were really mild and there's no mess. I definitely noticed the added calories kept my energy levels more consistent between opportunities to eat solid foods. I'm avoiding the Tailwind flavours with caffeine though as I don't like the energy spikes. Do you take any supplements or nutraceuticals to help combat inflammation and lack of full nutrition on longer races?

[@ARonAR]

Yup, I'll be mentioning that in the episode about Food for multi day racing, soon. There's quite a lot of detail :)

[@eliseerickson5994]

I'm training for my first race so I don't have much experience but I think you could heat up your food in the back of a kayak while you're paddling