Glukose-High: just don’t allow hunger to be hungry!
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I sit on the bike, my jersey sticks and my fingers too. I chew. Not because I am hungry, but because I have to: “Tafting from the start, 70 to 80 grams of carbohydrates per hour”, my coach Marcel wrote me in the training plan. Don’t risk hunger, instead “fueling”! So I put sweet jailing in the number four in, even if my pancreas should be very enthusiastic about this glucose refueling. What the hell: In September my first triathlon is pending, I can no longer allow myself to make mistakes.
It sounds logical on paper: energy in, output out. But here outside on the lonely forest road between Lehnitz and I buzzed for clear water while I Marcels Program »two hours of fleet aero-miles« on the racing bike. Because because the DM bars have far too few carbohydrates, I preferred to stir into my water bottles. Carbs, Carbs, Carbs! The Völle diet.
Trial training
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ND editor Jirka Grahl tries something new, at the start of triathlon. 1500 m swimming, 43 km bike, 10 km run. On September 14th. is a competition premiere: at Fehmarn triathlon.
Smart nutrition is the hot shitty nowadays among all sports enthusiasts: During the Tour de France, the team bosses claim that their cycling professionals would be faster and faster because they were so sophisticated: 120 grams of carbohydrates per hour devour the men Pogačar, Lipowitz and Co. in the form of energy gels and electrolyt drinks. Eating, eating, eating: At the Red Bull team, even a “kitchen truck” drives along, in which the drivers fill their glycogen memory immediately after the race-with mountains of rice and chicken breast.
Maybe a triathlondilettante like I can get out for a few seconds or even minutes with a clever meal planning? The nutritionist Juliane Heydenreich from the University of Leipzig Didn’t give me too much hopes when I asked her in the interview: “If it is your first triathlon, I would not experiment too much.” She advises “to orientate herself to classic nutritional recommendations for endurance sports”: “Carbohydrate -voltage, well distributed around training and last but not least: regularly and consciously.” (You can find the whole conversation here!).
No experiments, according to the professor for “experimental sports nutrition”. Instead, “Food First”, i.e. rely on natural nutritional components and avoid nutritional supplements. After all, I could try to “dop” with beetroot juice at the beginning of September: the earthy tuber has a vascular effect and can improve the oxygen supply to the muscles: “Half a liter of every day-or concentrated shots-can help over two weeks before the competition,” says Professor.
Rot-pray juice! What would I give for it now! At kilometer 40 I pass the Summter See and nipe on my sugar water: brrrrr, disgusting! I am almost lined with icing on the inside. A preducian on Speed. Eight weeks, I think in the glucose delirium: I’m full, but I chew. I’m tired, but I step. Every beginning is cute!
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