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Gels in IM distance events -

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    #32
    zico10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭zico10


    shotgunmcos wrote: »
    Zico what was your own nutrition strategy?

    I ate a sports bar half an hour before the race started and a gel right before the swim.
    Once out of the water I took on 1g of carbohydrate for every kg of my body weight per hour. This translated to 75/76g of carbs that I'd need every hour. On race day this was 3 High-5 gels per hour on the bike, with every third one containing caffeine. This was 69g of carbs, the remainder I got from sports drink.
    I took a 750ml water with me on the bike and aero-bottle I had filled with High-5 sports drink. I can't remember exactly how frequent the aid stations were apart, (I think approximately every 30km) and while the bottles might not have been completely drained, I was grabbing a new bottle of either water or High-5 at every aid station. For the first 30 minutes of bike I just drank water and then just drank whatever I felt like drinking after that.
    I tried continue this pattern of three gels per hour on the run, the aid stations were fairly regularly placed around the run course and I'd sometimes grab a chunk of banana to nibble on as I ran. I only drank water or sports drinks on the first two laps and on the third I started drinking coke.


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    #33
    mloc123
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    https://picasaweb.google.com/110296787633200563331/TriAnMhiCXIIIHalfDistanceTriathlonSwimOrganitzationOnly?authkey=Gv1sRgCLWWv9iLwpfOUA#5606583970069463634

    I saw this picture and was reminded of this thread :)


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    #34
    Bambaata
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    mloc123 wrote: »
    https://picasaweb.google.com/110296787633200563331/TriAnMhiCXIIIHalfDistanceTriathlonSwimOrganitzationOnly?authkey=Gv1sRgCLWWv9iLwpfOUA#5606583970069463634

    I saw this picture and was reminded of this thread :)

    Those Lucazade bars are bloody savage! Got a few recently when they were reduced to clear in Tesco (eventhough ive never seen them stocked there!!) and was well impressed, not for HIM though so havent gotten anymore.


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    #35
    hf4z6sqo7vjngi
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    mloc123 wrote: »
    https://picasaweb.google.com/110296787633200563331/TriAnMhiCXIIIHalfDistanceTriathlonSwimOrganitzationOnly?authkey=Gv1sRgCLWWv9iLwpfOUA#5606583970069463634

    I saw this picture and was reminded of this thread :)

    I am sure the sticky tape held everything in place in the wind and rain:p


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    #36
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    zico10 wrote: »
    I seldom check the sub forum that is gear in the A/R/T forum and I came upon this thread by a combination of boredom and chance.
    Just before I reply further I want to be 100% sure, am I the 'hippie' at 'the pointy end of things', who in your opinion has/had no plan?
    I often think the 'high hope thread' I imagine you are talking about is going nowhere, but I think it being all 'hippie about stuff' and '*****' is only a small reason for this.

    I don't know you. I know you a polite guy, but thats about the extent of my knowledge really.

    I gather that the sub ten thread didn't catch on. I didn't follow it past the second or third page so I amn't going to speculate on why.


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    #37
    zico10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭zico10


    tunney wrote: »
    I don't know you. I know you a polite guy, but thats about the extent of my knowledge really.

    I gather that the sub ten thread didn't catch on. I didn't follow it past the second or third page so I amn't going to speculate on why.

    Thanks, I appreciate your response, but I would just like to go back to your original post. I am not looking to score points off you and maybe I am taking things out of context. Forgive me if I am, but I would say my preparation for the IM stuck very rigidly to a plan. It followed an exact structure from start to finish, I never changed anything in it and the sessions I missed were a tiny percentage of the overall plan.
    I freely admit to knowing very little about the scientific side of things and in time I acknowledge I'll have to educate myself on such things to get maximum benefits from my training. With what little knowledge I do have, I would still never recommend someone to approach an ironman and not to have a fully researched and well thought out nutrition strategy. I detailed my approach to nutrition early on in the sub 10 thread and it's the exact same thing I've said to MCOS above.


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