I enjoyed participating in the St. Nick's meet at Ga Tech on Saturday! It was a well-run meet, everybody was very friendly, and the facility is beautiful. Thanks to Atlanta Rainbow Trout & everybody who worked on the meet. It was great.
Here's the question -- I don't like eating anything very heavy on the day of competition, so for breakfast I had a banana, a bagel with cream cheese, and about 6 cups of coffee. Warmups were at 10 am, I swam the 800 around 11:30, a few more events, and finished with the 400 around 5:30. Throughout the day I had plenty of water, red grapes, two more bananas, and three carbo power bar type things.
By the time the meet wrapped up around 6, I was RAVENOUS and about ready munch my way through downtown Atlanta. So I'm not sure this is the best eating plan for the day of competition, and even less sure how well it would work for a multi-day event.
What do you eat on the day of the meet?
I don't eat anything at or before a meet, I just can't do it, but I do go through a few bottles of Gatorade in the course of the day. Saturday in Long Beach I was running on some In-n-Out burger from the night before all the way until about 7pm!
Rob... since you are my friend and I love you dearly, I am going to tell you that this is one of THE WORST plans I have ever read!
But still some poor USMS athlete will read it and say, "Right on. Dumouchel can swim pretty fast and I like In-n-Out so thats what I'm doing too!"
By the way, I really appreciate how whenever we eat out, I can count on an extra helping of veggies off your plate since you flat out do not touch them! :)
I don't eat anything at or before a meet, I just can't do it, but I do go through a few bottles of Gatorade in the course of the day. Saturday in Long Beach I was running on some In-n-Out burger from the night before all the way until about 7pm!
Rob... since you are my friend and I love you dearly, I am going to tell you that this is one of THE WORST plans I have ever read!
But still some poor USMS athlete will read it and say, "Right on. Dumouchel can swim pretty fast and I like In-n-Out so thats what I'm doing too!"
By the way, I really appreciate how whenever we eat out, I can count on an extra helping of veggies off your plate since you flat out do not touch them! :)
