I've heard a diet rich in fats would aid endurance events.First teach your body to burn fat as fuel then provide it all the fat it can handle.My favorite prerace meal is steak cooked in bacon grease,eggs,2 cups of strong cowboy coffee served in a tin cup,and a couple of candy bars as desert.Any thoughts?
Submitted by sgski on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 4:48pm
Do you prefer a NY Strip, Porterhouse or Rib Eye? I like a good Rib Eye (bone in of course), medium rare. Eggs over easy. Gotta have rice but.
#1 Sat, 07/10/2010 - 5:17pm
Sounds like the favorite 'last meal' of death row imates.
#2 Sat, 07/10/2010 - 5:16pm
Kenny,
I think a good filet is a bit more of a breakfast steak.
#3 Sat, 07/10/2010 - 5:29pm
Yeah boyeee. Now we're talking. A good filet with a Bearnaise sauce. That's the ticket. Gotta have rice but.
#4 Sat, 07/10/2010 - 5:42pm
My pre race meal:
I love da steak wrapped with bacon and jalapeno peppers, two eggs with tabasco sauce, stack of pancakes with hash browns and wash it down with chocolate milk. Just before race time, 3 dark chocolate milky way bars. I get so much energy from dis, I neva poop out in da race, neva!!!
#5 Mon, 07/12/2010 - 1:21pm
damn, but do you poop? sounds like a colon stopper!
#6 Tue, 07/13/2010 - 2:37pm
After race, no nothing, wen burn it off!!!
#7 Wed, 07/14/2010 - 6:53am
eat like a man
#8 Wed, 07/14/2010 - 7:50am
that was disturbing, yet made me really crave fast food. Drinking a beer instead.
#9 Wed, 07/14/2010 - 3:04pm
Bearnaise sauce!!!! Much too elegant and classy for me. There's still no substitute for boneless chicken and gravy all ovah (even on top the mac salad). Sprinkle nioi and whack em. Wash down with large strawberry slush float. Real ono.
#10 Thu, 07/15/2010 - 7:14pm
koacanoe, Your suggested menu is below the belt, false crack kine action, not fair..........Rainbow Drive Inn is the ultimate bomb. What you buying? Gotta have rice but.
#11 Thu, 07/15/2010 - 7:28pm
KGB:
Xscuse eh! Nevah mean for false crack you. Blame me if never get fried rice yesterday because I went buy 5 of them, plus 4 lokomokos and 3 french toasts for feed the kids before they go hiking. Rice? Remember the days of oxtail and pigsfeet soups with extra greens and 4 scoups rice at Kapiolani Coffee Shop? Thank goodness for Keawe Grill and their $9.00 Bar B Q plate.
#12 Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:29am
Sgski, it's true what you wrote - here are some more specifics:
Your muscles can burn sugar (carbs) and fat. You can get a bit more oomph for an hour or two if there are sugars to burn, and since you'll likely have glycogen stored in the muscles anyway, that's where you'll get most of your sugars. You will run out of glycogen, though, and you won't be able to absorb enough sugars through eating and drinking to keep your speed up.
When you bonk, it's usually because you have run out of sugars (glycogen) and your muscles are not "geared up" to burn fats very well, and when your muscles are presented with fats from your storage areas, the muscles burn them too slowly, so you slow down a lot. In other words, you bonk when you shift from burning glycogen to fats.
To fix this, all you need to do is to induce / encourage / force your muscles to burn fats better, and then you'll keep your speed longer. To do this, you can either: keep your normal diet and do a long and slow 3 hr+ paddle once a week while only consuming water or salted water, i.e. no power bars or sugar drinks; have a low carb / high fat diet and keep training volumes normal. What you're doing is stressing your muscles or bonking them and then continuing for another hour or two at a nice and easy pace. By doing this, the "fat burning enzymes" in your muscle cells will gear up so that they can handle burning a higher rate of fatty acids which will give you more energy production and more speed.
A high fat diet (natural and mostly animal fats, not french fries or vegetable oil) is a healthier way to go anyway. As an endurance athlete, though, I still think you need to take in about 20% carb like in potatoes or milk or something to keep the glycogen topped off for races.
#13 Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:37am
Years ago, Dr. Z confirmed, that at least, surfski paddlers were burning fat doing the Molokai Race. His post race urine samples collected from racers showed the presence of ketones. Back then, racers had the choice of consuming the all you can eat pasta and bug juice dinner, the buffet dinner or ordering from the menu at the Kalua Koi Hotel restaurant. Most of the fat eaters avoided the pasta dinner and went for the buffet or ordered leg of lamb and steaks from the menu. In the morning, the race started around 9 or 10, so having pork chops and eggs or bacon or steak for breakfast was possible. Unfortunately, the coffee wasn't the cowboy type, it was the usual run of the mill ding a ling drip type. No wonder sgski was always lining up at the starting line first, for he must of been tanked up with fresh perked grow hairs on your chest cowboy coffee from his escort boat?
#14 Mon, 07/19/2010 - 1:32pm
Koacanoe remember talking to you at waynes 40th about this diet!I You were on to this theory way before its time.
Your're right on the coffee,can't stand the thin shit-gotta be able to chew it!.Hope to see you on the water getting ready for molokai 2011.You gonna bust out your burton ski and bennet paddle?I like your idea of a kailua boat ramp finish.The run from rabbit to the mokes on the outside would be perfect.
Aloha
#15 Mon, 07/19/2010 - 6:19pm
Does all this scientific stuff rule out Cheeseburgers at Buzz's? Levora's got deep pockets and is more then willing.
#16 Mon, 07/19/2010 - 7:17pm
KGB remember our bet about distance season.A kiawe broiled burger sounds pretty good right now.
#17 Mon, 07/19/2010 - 8:18pm
sgski. You talking about that bearded vegetarian who eat at the Deli? What a waste of a good restaurant. Have they re-opened on the Pier again? No can beat the hamburger plate with gravy all ovah the rice and mac salad if you tired fish. Mahalo for recommend taking lecithin because my cholesterol no go over 101, even after eating tons of ice cream. Kden, got to do a Moku Manu run now before get hot.
ps: no forget carry cell phone, so next time you snap your ski in half, everybody know where you stay.
#18 Tue, 07/20/2010 - 6:19am
Koacanoe he'll eat anything that tastes like fish...he also has been seen eating bird food, as always keep your hands away from his mouth..he bites.Hope you drag one rapala lure behind your ski..the onos are in town.Enjoy the deep purple water behind moku manu-remember skis are the safest craft in the water.. until the point they break in half due to big surf.aloha-stu
#19 Tue, 07/20/2010 - 7:53am
sgski: About that high fat diet: Don't even think of feeding dry dog food to those iditatrod sled dogs. I hear their endurance comes from eating fatty meats. They won't last an hour in the snow eating the dry stuff we feed our dogs. Anyway, ending at the boatramp would really be big time for Kailua. They got community spirit there that the townees don't have. Remember the days of of doing a Rabbit Island run from the bath house and back? Many of times the run to Rabbit was faster than the run back to the bath house. Going against the chop with the current with you helps. So KGB, if you racing the Channel this weekend, don't fight it, pull into Sandy's and call it a day?
#20 Wed, 07/21/2010 - 9:13pm
The only channel I'll be crossing this weekend is at Keehi for The Oahu Championships with those fashionista's from Keahiakahoe 60's men.
#21 Thu, 07/22/2010 - 6:44am