Whats The Best Food To Eat Before An Event?

[[old] blue87]

Any tips on foods to eat before an event? The day before and/or just before you race?<br /><br />Thanx

[[old] Pete Marston]

What length event? 2k? Just eat as normal, and have your last meal about 3 hours before the race / test. Drink plenty of water. A 6 to 8 min row doesn't require many carbs really.<br /><br />Pete

[[old] blue87]

ok thanx. what about 5ks? Also when doing alot of training.. and i mean ALOT!!, I am having 5 meals per day, but how much should i eat in each meal?<br />

[[old] Pete Marston]

If you're training at Leander, surely you have people there who can advise you well on nutrition? If not the coaches, how about the other rowers? Talk to Rich Blagrove, he's not too different in size to you, and knows his stuff.

[[old] NavigationHazard]

A question that also has every right to exist:<br /><br />What do people eat/drink <i>after</i> an event? <br /><br />Besides beer, which goes without saying.

[[old] SlugButt]

<br />Before? Cheese fondue and buckets of ravioli as close to race time as possible. <br /><br />I hear Olaf Tufte eats huge amounts of smoked herring smothered in mayonaise while boats are being poled at the starting line. Marcel Hacker used to gulp down uncooked bratworst while warming up, and I think Sir Steve Redgrave was quoted as describing his incredible successes as "being feuled by haggis."<br /><br />No, wait . . . that was . . . um . . . whatdoyoucallit? . . . lying. Yes, definately lying. <br />

[[old] NavigationHazard]

What's wrong with haggis? With a gorse-bush salad on the side, and breaded and fried Mars bars in caramel sauce for dessert?<br /><br />BTW, you left out the French secret erg-race weapons, snails in garlic butter.<br /><br />And the Japanese are said to be counting on <i>shiokara</i> (salted squid guts) before, after, and even during events.<br /><br /><br />NOT.<br /><br />

[[old] SlugButt]

Of course! My mistake.<br /><br />I beleive lightweights are advised to have the poached salmon in a white wine sauce and a small salad with fresh challottes. E. Ebberson is noted for keeping a fingerbowl with rose petals sprinkled in the water next to his erg.

[[old] SimonB]

Strange<br /><br />When I brought up the C2 interactive training program today, it recommended the following work out:<br /><br />Warm-up: <br /><br /> 1 x vegetable Samosa<br /> 2 x garlic poperdoms (with yougurt and chutney dips)<br /><br />Main-workout:<br /><br /> Vegetable Vindaloo (sweaty hard sprinting)<br /> Rogan Josh (Steady state burn)<br /><br />and<br /><br /> Pilao rice<br /><br />Cool-Down:<br /><br /> n x Lager of my own choice<br /><br />I think I will enjoy this workout

[[old] allapologies916]

actually, i personally do this before every practice and every race... and I eat about 40 min. to an hour before a race/practice and the thing I eat is a Nature Valley Oat'N'honey bar. The original kind that comes in the green box. Its a hard oat bar and I have never had a problem with it making a comeback during exercise or a race.

[[old] SlugButt]

Hmmm. Tried the shiokara before an AT workout but had trouble with projectile vomiting. Should I be adjusting the drag factor?

[[old] NavigationHazard]

<!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hmmm. Tried the shiokara before an AT workout but had trouble with projectile vomiting. Should I be adjusting the drag factor? </td></tr></table><br /><br />I'm not sure what you mean by 'trouble.' Shiokara and a good AT workout are normally guaranteed to induce projectile effects, thereby lowering speeds by as much as 5 sec/500m.<br /><br />Perhaps you should try <i>natto</i> (half-fermented/half-rotted soybeans) instead. The stuff is so nasty and pungent that although half of Japan swears by it, the other half swears at it and leaves the room.<br /><br /><img src='http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/natto.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /><br /><br />Alternatively, there's fried Vegemite.... <br /><br /><img src='http://www.vegemite.com.au/home/images/ ... image2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />