Worst food you ever ate before a race?

I ate a big red candle.

About 2 cups of mixed nuts. Throwing up never felt so good after that race.

Peanut Butter. I get the worst heartburn from it.

I've got a friend that could eat almost anything. Unfortunately he did. Once before an afternoon meet in high school he went to subway and bought 2 footlongs with all the toppings. He ate them both and amazingly held it all down. A year or two later he converted to "healthier" snacks and meals. This time he at 3-4 powerbars without reading the label and drinking the minimum recommended fluid (he said he had about 1/2 bottle of gatorade) and later complained about the worst stomach cramps he'd ever had. I wonder why.

I had a bagel w/ peanut butter for lunch one day, before an evening race. It sat there like a rock, and I felt awful for the whole agonizing race.

That's hilarious, because I have a friend (good runner) who SWEARS by his "power bagel" (peanut butter). Takes all kinds.

Worst I ever had was a buttered bagel before the now defunct Harvard Pilgrim Downtown 5k in RI when I was a junior in HS.

Granted, Khalid, and a 100 or so others finished ahead of me, but I was the first one to paint the streets of downtown Providence with vomit.

I was running on my dad's company's team, and we finished second, I got a new pair of Gel Kayanos, good thing the NCAA didn't care about a half-rate walk on like me or else I'd be the most pathetic professional runner ever.

In high school, I once ate a piece of Winchell's cheesecake before a downhill mile. I ran 4:10. After that, I ate a piece before every race, as if it was my good luck charm. No wonder when I got to college I already had a belly forming.

I love Toasted cheese with Tomato soup but 1 HR before a 15KM race, NOOOOOOOOOO

I am a fan of the so called "Power Bagel"( with natural penut butter. I like to have 2 3-4 hours before my warm up.

The worst i have had was 3 Slices of sausage pizza 2 hours before a twighlight race. I Felt horrible, but ran decent.

drank 500ml bottle of Homo milk that had expired 6 days previuos...about 20seconds before a 'race'

my friend once ate an entire pound of gummy bears before a meet. he was about an 18 minute 5ker and that race he ran like 25 or something.

Once, at the state indoor championships....i went across the road to a mall and ate a big heaping plate of sweet and sour sesame pork. I was so full and my stomach was gurgling before my race (300m). As you can see, I was very dedicated to the sport and was very careful about supplying my body with the proper fuel before a big race. Needless to say, I didnt run very well and I never told my coach what I ate before the race. He would have destroyed me.

Chowed a bad box about 45 minutes before an 800 at a home meet my junior year in high school. This was in a drama storage closet, mind you. I think the gal had a touch of yeast infection or something, as I was feeling quite ill and literally foaming at the mouth as I was warming up. Ran 2:01 high and won the race and proceeded to puke behind a large elm tree. That night I puked again. That spelled the end of both that short lived relationship and my carpetmunching days.

Never ran more than 0.5s faster than that in high school but managed a 1:55 low in college, smedge free.

French fries, pork rinds and 7-11 nachos washed down with diet Coke and whiskeys with Shannon butler.

Dunno about before, but after a XC meet today I was double fisting Papa John's on my cool down. That's right, running and eating pizza and the same time.

had a crappy 800 in high school, went and got a hot dog, nachos, and a coke. finished all that, then ran the mile. repeated this several times during the season, pr'ed each time in the mile.

Ate 2 sausage egg mcmuffins on the starting line of an 8.75 mile hilly road/beach race. it hurt. i was in the lead at 100m, but needless to say i fell off from there.

Clamdigger wrote:

Chowed a bad box about 45 minutes before an 800 at a home meet my junior year in high school. This was in a drama storage closet, mind you. I think the gal had a touch of yeast infection or something, as I was feeling quite ill and literally foaming at the mouth as I was warming up. Ran 2:01 high and won the race and proceeded to puke behind a large elm tree. That night I puked again. That spelled the end of both that short lived relationship and my carpetmunching days.

Never ran more than 0.5s faster than that in high school but managed a 1:55 low in college, smedge free.

Damn!!! I can\'t even top that story!

Good one, keep up the good work!

jason