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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: Eating on long runs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.163354.15868@unocal.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:33:54 GMT
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- In article <BzMBMy.2Hyr@austin.ibm.com> spit@austin.ibm.com (John F. Spitzer) writes:
- >
- >Thanks to everyone who replied for all the advice!
- >
- >I ran 24 miles on Saturday and didn't even come close to bonking!
- >I carbo-loaded the night before: tortillas, beans, rice, and bananas.
- >The morning of the run, I drank a generous glass of juice and hit
- >the trail. During my run, I only drank water. I wasn't even that
- >hungry after the run!
- >
- >Now another question... I'm following Galloway's marathon schedule
- >for a 3:30 marathon (hey, it's my first!) He doesn't give any in-
- >dication of what pace to set on the long slow runs. My goal pace
- >is 8 minutes/mile, and I was running between 9 and 10 minutes/mile
- >on my long run. Is that okay? My speed training's going fine, but
- >I'm still worried about overdoing it on race day and bonking at the
- >20 mile mark :^( What are y'all's experiences with putting the
- >speed and distance training together on race day?
-
- Yes, an important thing to learn in marathon running is running with
- lots of other people. A trendency is to get excited and do the first
- couple hours faster than you may have trained for. Then one may bonk
- into the third or fourth hour. Pace yourself to 9 minute miles your
- first marathon then. If you do OK, then try faster in future marathons.
-