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In training for the 100k Oxfam trailwalker challenge in July.
However as the missus is 38 weeks pregnant I am not allowed to go further than 10 minutes from the house, so the 50k will be mostly laps of Greenwich park and Blackheath.
Walking that far is hard, I know it doesn't sound like it but it is, it grinds you down to the extent that you cant even think properly, so my question is this...what should we be eating to keep oursleves going, I have got the Kendal mint cake in but are there any other foodstuffs that will be good? Should we be going for carbs or sugars?
Cheers
Steve
As much as you possibly can - that's 30 miles, you madman!
Seriously, you won't need to consume massive slugs of energy, because your workrate won't be at a level where you use your blood sugar faster than you metabolise it. However, after a hearty breakfast of complex carbs, you will need to keep a steady intake going of simple carbs.
Your main enemy will no doubt be blisters and sheer muscle fatigue.
Good on you, though!
cheers ourman, it's a strange one. This will be our third "big" training walk, the first was 25k and i dont think we ate anything, 3 weeks ago we did 38k of the north downs way and again we were just eating cereal bars nothing substantial at all. You feel your body and brain shutting down but but your not hungry at all.
So far ive not had a single blister so I'm doing something right there, and we do jog a bit then walk a bit. I was kind of hoping some people would have some recipes for things we could make and take with us to eat en route, and what is the science behind it? Do we need to just load up on carbs, or would sugars be better? Last time I had a flake after about 35k and chocolate had never tasted so good.
fitness/food aside walking round a park for 10hrs sounds mentally challenging
It'll be quicker to cycle.....
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Well done fella, keep up the good work!
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Agreed, but the missus wont let me head off to the countryside where i am out of mobile reception and 3 hours from a train station at this late stage so its this or nothing
Good luck.
I ran a 101k race last year so can understand your situation a bit.
One of the main problems of distance racing is keeping your head interested. I made sure I did lots or boring repetitive training runs. They not only keep you going during the race because you wont want to train like that again, but they also make the event so interesting. It's a good way of keeping your mind on other things.
Sports bars and energy gels have their place but I found good cheap sandwiches a help. Pizza would have been good but any junk food. Cakes and pastry's were good too. Also loads of fruit, bananas, oranges but anything easy to hold, shove in your pocket and nibble or gulp down. At point 100k I was given some very milky extremely sweet coffee and it was the best drink I have ever had.
All the best
roper
EDIT: this site is quite good for tips
[url] http://www.ultrunr.com [/url]
Get some gels down -- quick to metabolise, gives you carbs. Keep drinking plenty too.
I'd be tempted just to buy what I fancied en route
A pie & a pint at dinnertime would be my No1 choice
i did 28 mile (yorkshire 3 peaks) last weekend and i survived on jelly babies, cold bacon butties lots of water and chocolate peanuts.
uplink - no drinking until we complete the distance we set out to, that's what keeps us going. And after that much walking it only takes 1 and your finished
Well I've walked that distance (50Km, 100Km might be a different matter!) quite a few times and don't [usually] find that it too problematic...almost enjoyable...I just take 'normal' food...nice sandwiches, hard-boiled-eggs, flap-jack, sausage-rolls / pies...chocolate covered raisons, boiled sweets in a pocket so I can get to them without stopping...water, sweet tea, also enjoy a 'treat' of a can of cola...I prefer regular but short breaks e.g. max 5 minutes every 90
So the 100k is in one day? I suppose that's a round number distance for what's possible in 24 hours? Loonacy!
I've done a 100k running race - well a fell race - albeit years ago. Sports bars etc are fine but you do end up craving something different. Also I find too many power bars clear your guts out something rotten. On that one (Fellsman) there were food stops with soup or even rice pudding - basically anything you could get into a plastic mug. What someone said about your head wandering is dead right. At one point I found myself in tears about something ridiculous. We jogged / walked, it was N Yorks 3 peaks territory, and took us about 15 hours, although some took much less and some more than 24. Do have fun! Oh and dump the Kendal Mint Cake altogether until the last 10 miles - the sugar is too pure, gives you a rush and then a deficit. You need long chain complex carbs, and fat.