I wonder if MOST athletes purposefully lose weight for races or if they just go with the flow of their eating? Like they must do it on purpose cause I don’t see how they could stay in that shape year round
Anecdotal, but I'm on a D1 team with multiple sub 4 milers/sub 14 guys/sub 1:50 dudes. (I myself am more around 14:30) We eat fried food, candy, drink on the weekends, you name it. There are also lots of girls on the team who obsess over their diet and are slow.
Eat what you want. If you are 20 year old man running 100ish miles a week your body pretty much self regulates in my experience. If you eat too much/too little or too much junk you simply won't be able to do the training. For some people that might mean eating rabbit food 3 meals a day, but I personally think that is a massive waste of time otherwise.
Anecdotal, but I'm on a D1 team with multiple sub 4 milers/sub 14 guys/sub 1:50 dudes. (I myself am more around 14:30) We eat fried food, candy, drink on the weekends, you name it. There are also lots of girls on the team who obsess over their diet and are slow.
Eat what you want. If you are 20 year old man running 100ish miles a week your body pretty much self regulates in my experience. If you eat too much/too little or too much junk you simply won't be able to do the training. For some people that might mean eating rabbit food 3 meals a day, but I personally think that is a massive waste of time otherwise.
The ability of college athletes to run fast has very little to do with their diet. Maybe 1%?
I've heard both sides of the diet theory. Many people have said that it makes the difference between being successful or not, while on the other hand, I've heard others say that diets are overrated.
Don Kardong ran under 13:00 for 3 miles in the early 1970s and his favorite food was Fruit Loops!
Good for you guys having balance in your life. But none of you are going to nationals. To be elite, you have to eat like an elite runner. No elite college runners are eating like you and your team.
Good for you guys having balance in your life. But none of you are going to nationals. To be elite, you have to eat like an elite runner. No elite college runners are eating like you and your team.
I've eaten pizza, fried food and gotten way to drunk with a couple of Olympians. I can assure you the diet of elite runners isn't as crucial as you think.
Good for you guys having balance in your life. But none of you are going to nationals. To be elite, you have to eat like an elite runner. No elite college runners are eating like you and your team.
Do sub 14 guys not go to Nationals? Do people really think that everyone that qualifies eats perfectly 100% of the time? This is why so many college programs have EDs.
Good for you guys having balance in your life. But none of you are going to nationals. To be elite, you have to eat like an elite runner. No elite college runners are eating like you and your team.
There are national qualifiers on my team. Regardless the difference between 3:5x high and 3:5x low is almost never food. Whatever you ate to run 3:57 is probably good enough.
Listening to the coffee club boys pod, I definitely don’t get the impression those guys eat healthy. On one of their recent podcasts, Oli Hoare did a review of the new McRib sandwhich and it sounds like he ears fast food regularly.