Carb Loading

Warning - nothing that I write in this post was responsible, encouraged, or intelligent. Unfortunately, a significant amount of what I do falls under the categories of stupid, immature and potentially dangerous.

Week 21: July 21-July 27

Bike: 48 km
Run: 25 km
Swim: 750 m

An important part of training is nutrition and for the last couple months, I've been trying to figure out what the perfect nutritional supplement is for long runs and rides. So far I've tried Enduromax (good results - disgusting taste), First Endurance (good results - disgusting taste) and Gatorate (yummilicious, but not good in the long term). This week a group of us decided to investigate the qualities of a variety of carb loaded drinks.

As with any event - Jenn and I could not resist the temptation of dressing up, and dragged our friend Julie into our costume obsessed world. We decided to go as tarnished Beauty Queens and dressed accordingly.

The race course was set up on a flat path up near Grey Mountain. Teams were randomly chosen, although through some odd twist of fate the Beauty Queens ended up together. The goal of the event was to race laps of the course and in between consume carbohydrate loaded beverages. The beverages seemed to assist with the timing of the race, but had some odd side effects. It appeared as thought the beverages led to an skin irritation that caused the sudden removal of clothing. Even Starbuck suffered from this odd side effect when he lost his shirt to Tony.

In the case of the Beauty Queens, somehow we went in the forest wearing one outfit and came out wearing another...odd...clearly this is something that should be considered before using these beverages in a race setting.

The event finished with Ben, Jonah and Stephen destroying everyone while managing to retain all their clothing.

This week was a pretty pathetic training week due to work commitments that meant 12 hour days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Unfortunately it's not nearly as pathetic as next week will be. I've been battling illness since Monday (I write this on Friday) and have been out of commission.

Sierra posted this on Aug 01, 2008 from the gym | | permanent link