Meb Post-Race Comments- He Stopped 5 Times After Drink Didn't Go Down Right 'You always run to win...'

Maybe this UCANN sugar water is not the smartest idea?

You don't really need much more than water if you're fueled. So next time load up on chicken wings and bulletproof coffee.

(This post will probably get deleted since UCANN is advertising on LRC)

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

next time load up on chicken wings and bulletproof coffee.

Thank you for proving once again why you're my favorite poster on this board.

Hey we're all for discussion on this site. Generation UCAN is a product advertising on this site and is one Meb endorses.

I have no idea what Meb drinks during the race. He could drink UCAN before the race and something else during the race but whatever it is I'd say Meb's track record is pretty damn good.

And most scientists say you do need something besides water. You need carbos to try and not hit the wall.

UCANN isn't sugar water because it does not contain any sugar.

I know that Meb takes UCANN prior to the event and at the half.

wejo wrote:

Hey we're all for discussion on this site. Generation UCAN is a product advertising on this site and is one Meb endorses.

I have no idea what Meb drinks during the race. He could drink UCAN before the race and something else during the race but whatever it is I'd say Meb's track record is pretty damn good.

And most scientists say you do need something besides water. You need carbos to try and not hit the wall.

You must be the only one on LR who answers posts from Xfit_the_real_idiot.

well,. wrote:

wejo wrote:

Hey we're all for discussion on this site. Generation UCAN is a product advertising on this site and is one Meb endorses.

I have no idea what Meb drinks during the race. He could drink UCAN before the race and something else during the race but whatever it is I'd say Meb's track record is pretty damn good.

And most scientists say you do need something besides water. You need carbos to try and not hit the wall.

You must be the only one on LR who answers posts from Xfit_the_real_idiot.

I actually didn't even notice that it was the xfit guy that posted that until you pointed it out. It didn't really have anything to do with getting BUFF and being a MEAT HEAD who hates on SKINNY FAT joggers.

east_river_runner wrote:

UCANN isn't sugar water

I just looked it up. They use corn for sweetening. Coca Cola also uses corn (HFCS) for sweetening.

Newsflash: corn is a grain and not a vegetable and commercially available corn these days is about 50 times sweeter than it used to be just 100 years ago.

Xfit douche... get a job.

Ucan. Gatorade. Gu. (Your brand here). Sometimes they don't go down. It's not rocket science. It happens.

A weak minded runner could have dnf'd the race. Or walk. Meb did the best he could and should be praised for that. Instead, because of you MR DOUCHE, we are talking about corn.

Douche master.

wejo wrote:

Last year was an epic race, an epic moment for Boston, for the United States, for the world.

Puke, get over yourself Meb.

I think that x-fit guy is right.

I am a medical doctor with an interest in biochemistry and I have followed with interest the last couple of decades the effort of the market to push some product for runners that will make them "better" in some way.

So far the industry has simply failed.

It is the same story with diets, weight loss and health in general.

And still, we, the western people, refuse to accept what seems to be the truth about nutrition (for better health or improved performance).

That less is more.

Only after several deaths did we start to accept that you cannot (should not) drink over your thirst. That electrolytes consumed during a race will not change the concentration of them in the blood. And one of my favorites, the recent news (few years now) that the body absorbs nutrients for about 40 minutes after exercise. Like the body stops absorbing nutrients at some point. Like the cells stop even for a milisecond the thousands of reactions that deal with energy and energy production or proteinosynthesis.

Most people here are much better runners than I am. And this is not because of some juice or sugar or superstarch or protein that they consume.

As someone else much wiser said there is no superfood but there is a super diet. And in my humble opinion it is not produced by companies but you could find it in the humble table of your grandparents.

So please keep your hard earnt money, there is no need for special foods and drinks.

for a guy who has diploma from Yale, you're pretty ignorant: "try and not hit the wall" is the wrong phrase; "try to not hit the wall" is what you're going for.

Whether or not UCANN helps runners is debatable but it is different than your normal carb or electrolyte mix. It was made to help a severely sick kid who required food every few hours, always. This allowed him to sleep through a night.

wow i'm shocked wrote:

well,. wrote:

You must be the only one on LR who answers posts from Xfit_the_real_idiot.

I actually didn't even notice that it was the xfit guy that posted that until you pointed it out. It didn't really have anything to do with getting BUFF and being a MEAT HEAD who hates on SKINNY FAT joggers.

It's because crossfitters seem to really like low carb/paleo diets and that bulletproof snake oil shit.

Agreed. Either he is brainwashed and believes his own press or he is the world's greatest self-PR rep.The "holding hands over the finish line" does a disservice and makes a mockery of serious distance runners.Can you imagine Mutai and Kipsang holding hands over the line?Keitany and Dibaba?Utterly ridiculous and right up there with Soviet propaganda....

Dennis Reynolds 4.5 wrote:

wejo wrote:

Last year was an epic race, an epic moment for Boston, for the United States, for the world.

Puke, get over yourself Meb.

earnt and proteinosythesis… just because you played operation as a kid, doesn't make you a doctor. Please don't try to qualify your statements as valid by lying...

Meb is a class act and a phenomenal sports icon. It was a fantastic moment when he led the lady he passed to the finish, congratulated her and had the crowd give it up for her. This my friends is what the sport should represent. But damn, he never gives up. Lesser men would have DNF'ed.

Let's not forget that the original paleo diet was the see food diet... You see food, you eat it.

wejo wrote:

And most scientists say you do need something besides water. You need carbos to try and not hit the wall.

A Dr. Canova and his stable of sub 2:06 marathoners would disagree.

wejo wrote:

A gracious Meb told Universal Sports

You always run to win