Everything in moderation right? One or two sodas everyday is on the verge of excessive to me as I drink about 2 a month. I guess for a runner that isn't too bad but for non runners that probably would be excessive. Like the big fat guy in my office that brings a 2 litre of Mt Dew to work everyday and finishes by the time he goes home. Way excessive.
One of MY best friends in the world ran 1:01 for was half and 2:12 in the marathon, and drank about 2-4 liters of Coca-Cola every day during training. He "carbo-loaded" on fries, gummi bears, white bread with Nutella and washed it all down with Coca-Cola. Had to be Coca-cola, not Pepsi.
When he ran 2:12 at Amsterdam in 2003, his dinner the night before the race was a McDonalds BigMac, Large Fries, a pile of Haribo gummi worms and 2 liters of Coca-cola. I am not making this up. He had to eat coca-cola and junk food in order to run fast.
He always said "I don't drink water because fish like to pee in it!"
Also he never ate any vegetables or anything green, except for green gummi candy.
In April 2007, I was in Belgium the weekend after I ran the Paris marathon, and he was getting ready for the Antwerp marathon. The night before the race, I took him to a pasta place, thinking that some "healthy" food would help him. He ate a plate of spaghetti with meat sauce, but his body rejected it, and he ended up pulling a "Radcliffe," and crapping on the road about 13km into the marathon, live on Belgian national TV.
Couch potato wrote:
Sitting down when reading this? Seriously? Who does anything else while trolling here?
I suppose one is inclined to forget such things whilst galloping around Cornell on a horse.
Does anyone remember that T&FN article where Bekele said that he would occasionally drink Coke mixed with wine? After reading that I tried it - man was it nasty!
Looks like that a-hole Mayeroff has a invented a new pen name.
This is almost the same exact post he wrote about his Belgian 'friend' on another occasion.
Don't believe this nonsense.