Bordin preferred to regenerate his mind training very little for about two months after his top marathons. During that period, his behavior was like a normal person, eating everything, drinking (wine) a little, also smoking 4-5 cigarettes per day.
But, when he decided to start his training, his concentration was terrible.
About food, he used a mix of pasta and rice (carbohydrates), meat or fish (proteins) and very many vegetables.
He never used some integrator, or some substance for helping his training. He used to say "if I take something helping me, it means that I'm not self confident. I want to fight and to win because I'm the strongest, not because something can help me".
About shoes, he did the most part of his training with training shoes heavy, also because he had some problem in his tendons. In 1990, before starting the preparation for Boston, he spent long time in Tirrenia (Italian National Center) having therapies with a new type of laser, that helped him in recovering from a bad injury in his tendon. I remember that also Mark Conover was in Tirrenia for the same reason, having this information by Gelindo himself.
He used racing shoes only for specific marathon endurance workouts.
For that reason, he never run a 10000m on track after moving to Marathon, also if he liked to try to run under 28 min. He ran only crosses, because using spikes on soft and muddy ground never was a problem.