And whattya know, the worst race I've had to date, by far. I tried for a few months to just let my body find it's ideal weight. I just trained, and ate as I felt necessary. Huge disaster.
If you want to race well, you'd best be at your ideal racing weight.
wgewegwegwe wrote:
And whattya know, the worst race I've had to date, by far. I tried for a few months to just let my body find it's ideal weight. I just trained, and ate as I felt necessary. Huge disaster.
If you want to race well, you'd best be at your ideal racing weight.
Agreed but ideal racing weight is not necessarily the same as ideal training weight. I race better when I'm light but I've found that if I try to do a higher mileage phase when I'm too light that I tend to get injured.
redux wrote:
Who told you to not pay attention to your racing weight?
I can't quite recall. I had made a thread about a year ago about how I'd noticed improvement in performance after losing weight. Someone then tried to convince me that the gains were actually just gains due to mileage/aerobic fitness, and that my body would "naturally determine my weight", and that I should just eat what I want.
Never, ever again will I listen to that kind of thinking. To race well, you need to be light, case closed.
The hell are you eating? Trucks?
Matter of fact, you probably eat fine. You just don't run enough.
akTW dew wrote:
The hell are you eating? Trucks?
Matter of fact, you probably eat fine. You just don't run enough.
Wrong, I run plenty (70 mpw or so). I eat too much, case closed.
70 mpw is NOT enough.
wqewfewfwe wrote:
akTW dew wrote:The hell are you eating? Trucks?
Matter of fact, you probably eat fine. You just don't run enough.
Wrong, I run plenty (70 mpw or so). I eat too much, case closed.
You are probably the single dumbest person I have ever met online.
wqewfewfwe wrote:
Wrong, I run plenty (70 mpw or so). I eat too much, case closed.
Nobody told you to eat too much. Case closed.
You weren't eating enough. When you're running that many miles and not fueling your body, it goes into starvation mode and starts burning muscle. There are plenty of posts on this subject.
dartmoth graduate wrote:
You weren't eating enough. When you're running that many miles and not fueling your body, it goes into starvation mode and starts burning muscle. There are plenty of posts on this subject.
Really? 4000 cals a day isn't enough?
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