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Morning Lisbon (@lpim)

The day before: I had a normal breakfast, lunch, and dinner the day before the race.  At dinner I had a penne pasta with grilled chicken and veggies.  Nothing extreme just fuel that my body could process and use for the next day. Morning of: I am pretty nervous before races so my stomach won't tolerate a meal.  So, I usually go for a muffin.  Placid ended up being a two muffin morning!  My body handles muffins well and I know that they won't upset my system before the race even starts. During the race:  Okay, so the good stuff - this is going to sound kinda gross but I was able to put down 26 PowerGels during the race.  I don't really want to see another PowerGel for a few weeks!  I used a combination of Tangerine (2 x caffeine) on the bike, Berry Blast (1 x caffeine) on the run, and Raspberry Cream (no caffeine) mixed in there on both the bike and the run.  I was able to get 15 PowerGels down during the bike (from hours 1-5.5) and 11 down on the run (hours 5.5-8.5).  PowerGels were my main source of calories for the day.  The nice thing about PowerGels is that they have 20mg of sodium and 20mg of potassium that really helps with cramping.  I was able to put down a muffin on the bike and the run as well.  Putting a muffin in my special needs bag for both was something new that I had never practiced but it went down easily and gave me something to look forward to as well as concentration on during the race.  As for hydration during the race, I was able to drink about 5-6 bottles of Ironman Perform and about 2-3 bottles of water.  The hourly breakdown of calories/hour ended up work out to 400 calories/hour.  This plan was one of my better ones that I have executed (I have done 7 Ironman races).  I didn't have any bonking out on the course.  I did have some low energy moments but they seemed to be short and something that I could work through. I hope that helps some people out there with their nutrition plans.  Mine is a work in progress and I'm always willing to try new things so I will continue to tweak it based off of the race conditions and my preparation.  See you at the races!

Photo by Gani Pinero endurapix.com