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In preparing to run a 24hour race, I’m looking for your best suggestions regarding fuel to try during training. Specifically:

What food and drinks are most recommended?
How much food and how much drink are recommended?
Any time frames / patterns of consumption that you recommend?
Any special thoughts to avoid stomach cramps?
Thanks, Chuck - California =================================================

I was stumped at first trying to figure out how to categorize my suggestions, then decided they are all sort of trivial.

During training you try just about everything in the grocery store to find out what works for you. My desires for pickled pigs feet should not be of concern to you. Find the soup, pasta, parfait, barbecue,
whatever that you and your stomach like after several hours of doing the roundy-round.

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Posted on the Ultralist:

Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:11:04 +1000
From: Tamyka Bell

Subject: Re: body fuel

Chuck Goetschel wrote:

> In preparing to run a 24hour race, I’m looking for your best suggestions
> regarding fuel to try during training.
>
> Specifically:
>
> What food and drinks are most recommended?

I haven’t run a 24hr race, but I’ve run for over 28hr, and I’ve done up to 12hr on a gravel track. Most of the runners consume real food, supplemented with sports bars and gels.
I think the key is having enough variety that every time you come past your crew/table, something on the table looks appetising. You can have the most nutritious food in the
world sitting there, but if it’s not appealing, you won’t eat enough.

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