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106. Sports Nutrition Tips to Fuel A Half Marathon · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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It's Jenna here with Riley. Thank you so much for listening
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to another episode. Today we're going to be chatting
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all about Riley's half marathon experience.
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She just ran the Rock'n'roll half Marathon in Washington DC
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just the other weekend. So she's going to be sharing all
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about her fueling journey throughout that whole time and
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her experience and how the race went.
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I know you kind of shared a little bit of like a tease on
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your Instagram story, so I'm really looking forward to
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hearing about how this race played out.
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I will say I ran a part of the DC Rock'n'roll half marathon.
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We ended up DNF ING, unfortunately, because somebody
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in our party did get injured. But I have lots of really fun
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and like educational learnings that I gathered from the
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weekend, so I'm really excited to chat with you all about it
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today. We're really excited to hear
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about the whole experience. Before we get into all about
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your half marathon, we're gonna share our high and low.
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So the part of our week that's went really well and maybe the
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part of our week that went not great.
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So Riley, kick us off. How's your week going?
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My week is really interesting. My high and my low are actually
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one of the same story. To give a little background, the
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reason that we decided to go up to DC and we chose the
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Rock'n'roll Half Marathon up there is actually because my
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sister lives in DC. So we were kind of just using it
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as an excuse to go up and visit her.
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So that was kind of the priority of that weekend.
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On Saturday night, after we completed or ran, I guess you
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can say, we trotted around DC. We went out to eat with my
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sister and her boyfriend and dinner was it was amazing.
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It was really good. We went to like a James Beard
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nominated restaurant, which I know I'm like this is way too
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fancy for you Winston Salem, but it was really good and it was
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really fun. When we were at the restaurant,
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we were talking about what we were going to do next after
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dinner. My sister said she had
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reservations for us at this like bar.
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It was a Speakeasy down the street.
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They specialized in jello shots. I know that was my reaction too.
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And this was probably my low because I remember like looking
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at my husband, looking at Robs and looking at my sister being
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like we are going to a Speakeasy with jello shots.
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Like I am 33. I haven't taken a jello shot in
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a very long time. Like what is happening here.
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We ended up going to the Speakeasy.
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I'm not a big drinker. I could probably count on one
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hand how many drinks I've had in 2025, including two from this
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night. We actually had the best jello
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shot that I have ever, ever had in my life.
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And before you'd pass judgment, hear me out, because what they
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did is they took different pieces of fruit and they like
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pureed them with like all these different ingredients.
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They were super fancy. I can't even remember them, but
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they would like place the jello shots like in pieces of fruit.
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So we got like an orange slice that was like a jello shot.
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And then you got like this tiny little glass of champagne.
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So it was like almost reverse because you usually take the
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shot and then you chase it like with a piece of fruit.
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But instead we had a little fruit and then we chased it with
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champagne. I knew it had to be something
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fancy because your sister wasn't going to take you to a place
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where you're taking like a jello shot out of like a plastic cup.
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Like it's going to be something cool.
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But that's really cool. I kind of love that and it's
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like fruity and fun. Yeah, so that was kind of my my
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low is that, you know, I am 33 and I did take a couple jello
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shots this past weekend, but they ended up being pretty
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classy. My sister's very classy, so I
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had trust in her, but it was just a really interesting but
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fun experience. I'm glad you stuffed outside of
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your comfort zone with that and tried something new.
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So that's fun or not, maybe not something new, but definitely a
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new twist on a potentially something you haven't seen in
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like decades. Plus that's called kind of a
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thing. So I love that.
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Yeah, sometimes it's just nice to, you know, try new things.
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What about you, Jenna? What is going on this week?
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Well, if you haven't been able to tell from listening to me
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talk, I'm a little bit under the weather right now.
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This is just a moment of like vulnerability that I'm going to
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share. It's going to be like my low
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into my high. But I think that especially when
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we're in the middle of training for something or we're really
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excited about our training or something like that, it can be
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so hard to admit to ourselves that we actually need to stop,
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take a rest day, take a step back from training and just
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accept that like that's what our body is asking for.
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As I shared on a previous episode, I had been traveling a
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little bit, so I'm betting that I probably picked something up
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during my travels. I don't know why the airport and
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being on a plane is like somehow like the place where everyone
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who is sick tends to congregate, but it just seems to workout
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that way. But I was so in denial that I
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was potentially getting sick that I was telling everyone that
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I had allergies, which is not so out-of-the-box because sometimes
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when it does get really windy here in Arizona, like I do get
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like a runny nose afterwards because there's so much dust in
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the air. And we had gone running outside
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and I just was like telling everyone was like, yeah, I just
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my nose is running. I'm just having the worst
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allergies. Like we've had rain here, We've
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had wind here. So I was like, it's just from
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that. And I was so, so, so far in
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denial that like there was number way that I'd even crossed
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my mind that I was potentially sick.
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So I still ran my long run on Friday.
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And I probably should not have done that truthfully, because I
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didn't feel my best during during the start of that.
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And at the end of that, I was like, oh, I don't think this is
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allergies. And I was finally ready to admit
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to myself that like, I probably was sick.
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And that meant that I needed to take some time away from
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running, which is really hard to do when you have a big goal for
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a marathon and you have a time based goal and you're maybe
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following a running plan that says, hey, you have this workout
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today or something like that. You almost feel guilty if you
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don't complete it. But I needed to take some time
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off so that my body could recover.
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My high is that I am feeling better now.
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I don't sound great, but I'm feeling much better than I was
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before, but I couldn't push myself through the weekend and
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do the things that I had wanted to do in order to keep up with
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my marathon training, which is coming up pretty quick.
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Sometimes these things happen and they're out of our control
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and it's really hard to admit to ourselves that like we need to
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take a step back from training, we need to take a pause and we
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need to take a rest. And that might mean that
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marathon day looks slightly different than what I had wanted
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it to or training looks slightly different than I had wanted it
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to. But that's part of life and we
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have to like understand that what my body was asking for was
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rest and there was number way that I should push through the
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weekend and just continue to run while feeling like this so low
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into a high there of feeling sick.
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We all make that mistake of being like, I got this, I can
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push through this, but sometimes the best thing for our body
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truly is rest well. Thank you so much for being
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vulnerable and sharing with us. I do remember last week you told
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me that you had allergies. Yeah, I was so deep in denial.
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I was like this couldn't be anything but.
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Allergies. I was laughing, kind of, because
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I do remember. That sometimes we do need to
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laugh about it because it truly is kind of like, wow, I really,
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really had myself fooled in that moment too.
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And just a reminder that if you are in a position where your
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body's for rest, like it's OK to take some rest and allow your
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body to recover because that's the best thing for you.
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But today is all about Riley's half marathon experience.
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I'm so excited for you to share a little bit about like your
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fueling journey through your half marathon, what worked well,
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what maybe you wish you had done differently, what you might do
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differently in your next race compared to this one.
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So tell us about it. Even though I DNF, there was so
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much valuable insight that I was able to take from this race in
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preparation for the races I have planned this year and then
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eventually the New York Marathon, which I'm super
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excited for. I would say that my phase two of
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run a marathon this year is now activated.
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I'm going to be working on a lot of like speed work and then also
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just a lot of like fueling strategies and just you know,
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over the next couple of months, really preparing for that
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marathon. I learned a lot this past
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weekend because there's so much that you can do at your house,
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right? Like even if you have a fueling
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strategy that you have figured out or you are practicing
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different fueling strategies, they say just like is different.
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There's things that come up and you just feel different.
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You've like deloaded that week, even though we didn't finish, I
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learned so much. I think the first big thing that
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I can take away from this race was this was the first race that
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I've ever had to travel for. In the past, I lived in
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California and there's a ton of races in California.
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So I could drive 45 to 60 minutes away from my home and I
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was able to participate in a variety of different races.
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And then, you know, moving back on the East Coast, I was either
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staying at my parents house or Rob's, my husband, his parents
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house, and that was a really familiar place.
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So having to travel for the first time definitely was a new
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experience. What did you do in order to help
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prepare yourself for that travel or how did you find that fueling
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in a hotel the morning of was different from being at your
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house or being in a familiar home?
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I think the. Biggest thing was like making
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sure I had prepared from a standpoint of, you know, that
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week, Making sure that I had the right snacks, the right fuel,
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but then also practicing my fueling ahead of time.
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Making sure that I was waking up at the time that I would be
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waking up at the hotel. And then also practicing with a
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variety of different nutrients, a variety of different foods and
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ingredients so that I was prepared to pack those items
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come race week. What did you end up packing for
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your breakfast or your pre run fuel?
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I ended up packing a like instant oats.
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We were really restricted on what was available at the hotel
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and like the breakfast didn't open until like 7:00 or 7:30.
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So there was no way that I was going to be able to like rely on
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the hotel amenities to fuel myself.
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And that's actually the approach I took with everything.
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And the approach I'm going to be taking moving forward with all
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my races is I'm always going to have like a plan A, a Plan B,
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and a plan C Plan A is to use the fuel that is available at
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the race or at the amenities. But then Plan B is to basically
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make the assumption that nothing is going to be available.
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How can I have the right fuel on me?
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How can I have the right hydration on me?
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How am I planning and acting like nothing is going to be
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available? Because sometimes it's not going
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to be. For example, I had an instant
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oats. That was my plan.
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AI knew that breakfast wasn't going to be available and I knew
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that there was hot water out at the coffee machine, so I knew
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that I'd be able to make my oats.
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What I didn't plan for was that there's not spoons readily
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available in your hotel room. And this was never even
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something that crossed my mind. That was my plan.
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AI was able to get like cutlery from the downstairs reception,
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but I can't imagine if this was before the New York Marathon and
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I was like drinking my oats because I I was on Staten Island
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and I didn't have a spoon available.
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So making sure that I remember that for the future is really
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important. If I wasn't able to get a spoon,
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I did have a plan. BI did have my toaster pastries
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with me. I did have a bagel with me in
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case I wasn't able to get in my oatmeal, but luckily I was able
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to find a spoon. I'm so glad that the hotel at
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least had a spoon for you because like, as much as we plan
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and prepare and we have those Plan B, Plan C options, we want
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Plan A. That's the one we've probably
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practiced with the most. And there's a reason why it is
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Plan A. So finding a way to make sure
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that works for you, I'm so glad that that worked out.
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Tell me a little bit about like other fueling things or things
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that you brought with you from home to like make that breakfast
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or make that first fuel of the day more successful for you.
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Something that I had noticed when I had been practicing was
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waking up at like 536, It's just really hard for me to eat that
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early in the morning. Something that I had been
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practicing with and something that I brought with me was
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liquid energy. I was drinking apple juice in
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preparation for this race and that was actually something that
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I drank and felt really good the morning of the race.
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It was adding about like 40 to 45 grams of carbs to my
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breakfast which was great, and it also helped with hydration as
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well. What about coffee?
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Coffee is one of those things that we've talked about before.
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I bring my coffee maker with me to a race because if I'm staying
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in a hotel, I want access to the coffee that I'm used to
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drinking. Did you guys bring your coffee
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maker? Did you rely on coffee from the
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hotel? What was your plan with that?
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I also brought my coffee machine because we were driving, so it
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was possible. But something that we've grown
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accustomed to is drinking espresso, having, you know, a
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little bit of coffee or caffeine feels really good on my GI or my
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gut. I don't know if I would have
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been able to, like, drink a full 12 to 16 ounces of regular
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coffee. I think it would have thrown
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things off. It might have thrown off my
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appetite, would have made me have to pee even more than I
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did. I think that that's such a big
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thing is like keeping that consistent because if you aren't
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used to drinking that amount of volume from a caffeinated
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beverage or potentially you're not used to that amount of
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caffeine. If you're drinking a different
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amount of caffeine than you normally do, that's something
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that can also really impact your day of race experience because
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it's something, again, that's unfamiliar.
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So even though we might be thinking, oh, I usually have
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coffee in the morning and then you end up drinking like this
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double caffeinated beverage than what you're used to and all of a
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sudden your caffeine intake is so much higher.
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Like that can really impact things way more than we think.
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So even like having a plan for that is such a strong and
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valuable thing to have in your kind of like plan for your race
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day that we often overlook. So I'm really glad that you guys
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had the forethought to bring what you're used to and even
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like keep the consistent amount the same so that way you weren't
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having to pee as frequently. How did that go?
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By the way, I know that you guys picked your hotel because you
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wanted bathroom access before the race.
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Was that something that you were glad you had?
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Did that workout in your favor? Yes, So it definitely worked out
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in our favor because I have the peas before my morning runs.
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And I also didn't realize like how many nerves I had.
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Like this was just a party pace race.
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Like there doesn't count for anything.
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We're just doing it for fun. Like again, I didn't finish the
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race, but before it I have nerves and that makes me have to
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pee. I got really lucky because our
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hotel was like right next to the start line and I remember like
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running into the bathroom 10 minutes before quickly going to
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pee before jumping into my corral.
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But this is something that I'm going to focus on moving
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forward. And This is why again, I didn't
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finish, but it was such a valuable experience because I
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might have not gotten the quote UN quote peas, you know, if I
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was just practicing 1/2 marathon at my house.
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But because of that race day environment, it is something
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that came up. I think so many runners
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experience this where we even think like this race is party
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pace. I'm not going to have any of
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that like adrenaline and nerves that I normally do.
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And then we're kind of surprised by the fact that like they still
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show up. So having even a plan for like,
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where am I going to the bathroom?
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What am I going to the bathroom when I'm going to have that
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happen? It's an important part of your
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race day strategy for sure, especially if you have a time
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based goal. I think like one of the most
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important things that we often like forget when it comes to
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race day is that like your time chip doesn't start until you
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cross the start line. If you do have a time based
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goal, probably prioritizing making sure that you use the
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restroom before you start. Even if the race has started and
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you start in a corral that's a little bit further back, that's
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essentially going to put you further ahead.
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Then if you try to start the race with your corral and then
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need to stop mile one, mile 2 in order to use the restroom, which
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is exactly what happened to me during my first marathon.
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So even having a plan for that and reminding yourself that like
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there is no pressure on you to get across the start line like
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with a specific corral or with a specific like group if you
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really need to use the bathroom. I think that is such a good
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point because it's so easy to get like wrapped up in that race
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day, you know, excitement, especially if you do have a time
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based goal because they have Pacers and with the New York
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Marathon for example, they have a Pacer going off every 5
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minutes and they have multiple Pacers with, you know, groups.
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And so I'm already stressed about like the pacer situation
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because it can be something that you just get really sucked into.
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And again, it doesn't matter. Like your time starts when your
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chip crosses the line. Exactly.
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I think another kind of like interesting strategy is to stand
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in the line for the porta potties and do that well in
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advance. And then if the race hasn't
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started and if you have more time and have the flexibility,
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let the person from behind you go in front of you and just say,
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oh, you can go. Oh, you can go, but you're still
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at the front of the line. And then when you do need to go,
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because you see you have 5 minutes before your group sends
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off, that's when you go. So you're at the front of the
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line, but you kind of wait until the last minute in order to use
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the restroom, which is also kind of a strategy that I've
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implemented before, which maybe it's a little controversial, I
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don't know. But it's just something that
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like has worked for me in the past when like those nerves and
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that time based goal really is there.
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That's a really good point. I thought about basically peeing
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and then just getting back in line.
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That's another one that works too, just.
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Lap it. I'm also gonna experiment a
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little bit with some like electrolyte timing.
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So especially the night before in the morning of trying to
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figure out how I can maybe work on some of that fluid retention
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and just kind of manage it a little bit better.
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New York is going to be really interesting though, because I'm
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going to be waking up at 5:30, but I'm not going to be running
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until like 94510. So I'm wondering like how that's
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going to affect me differently? And something that I'm sure that
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you will practice that time frame of like waking up that
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early, fueling throughout the morning, and then starting a
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long run later in the day just to see how your body handles it
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and reacts to that time frame. Definitely because I'm worried
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that maybe what is happening and what happened this last time is
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that I'm so worried about hydrating that I'm almost like
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overdoing it because I have limited time before the race
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since the time that I woke up. Yep and then we tend to over
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hydrate and then we need to pee and then our nerves make us need
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to pee even more so definitely can be a thing.
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What about fueling during the race?
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How did that go for you? It went really well.
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We ended up ending at mile 10, but before that I was feeling
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really well. If you have been following along
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on Instagram, I have been like trying out a gel situation.
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I don't really love a gel. I have started practicing with
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it a little bit, but I did use gummy bears to fuel for this
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half and I really like them. I mean their majority are
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glucose based and that is a carbohydrate that we can absorb
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very readily through our gut and they work really well.
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For me, it's going to be hard to carry the amount of gummy bears
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that I would need during a marathon.
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So I'm going to have to kind of experiment a little bit with
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that approach. Yeah, get creative for sure.
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How do you do with chewing them while you're running?
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Do you slow down to chew them? Do you take just like one or two
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at a time? What does that look like for
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you? Because I know like a big thing
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that I've seen in running groups is that people have a hard time
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like chewing and running at the same time.
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Yes and I have also gotten DMS from people that are like I
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tried to chew a gummy bear and I choked so please be careful.
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I do think it is practice and I also think that certain gummies
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and certain chews are better than others.
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I know like for example, like a Mots gummy is really hard to
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chew. So I don't ever recommend those.
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I have found with gummy bears with gels, I have to do a little
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bit at a time, like even with taking a gel, I've noticed that
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I have to take like four or five like squeezes of it.
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And that's kind of the approach I take with gummy bears because
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I'll eat a couple of them at a time.
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I just like them. I don't know, I just like them a
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little bit more. I think it is a taste and
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texture thing, but I feel like because I practice so much with
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them it is pretty easy for me to chew them.
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Again, we're back to practicing and making sure that it's a
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familiar thing and that's what's worked for you because that's
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what you've trained with, so it totally makes sense.
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What about after the race? Even though you guys didn't make
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it all the way to 13, still really important to fuel what
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you did run. So how did that workout for you
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guys? We're sharing this with you a
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little bit before we jumped on to record this, but I definitely
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did not prioritize fueling after the race the way that I usually
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do because we have to kind of navigate the streets of DC.
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My timeline was just off because I usually get my fuel in within
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30 minutes, at least some type of liquid energy, and then I'm
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having a meal an hour, an hour and a half afterwards.
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But because our plan kind of got grown off, I didn't end up
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fueling it for about two hours after the race.
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And I noticed that I was a lot more sore throughout the day.
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Even though the run I had done previously the week before was
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similar in distance. I would say it was a little bit
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more of a challenging run. I just was really shocked how
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sore I was and I think it might have been because I didn't
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probably my fueling. It's so interesting to see how
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big of an impact that fueling can potentially make.
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And no fault to the runner in your group that was injured and
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needed to stop. But if you had made it to the
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full 13, there's probably a pretty good chance that they had
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some type of refuel option available for you.
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So even though the start and the stop line for your race weren't
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both at your hotel, having that option to refuel at the finish
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line, even if it's something that you know maybe isn't your
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favorite thing to refuel with, you can start that refueling
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process. But because you were navigating
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the streets and trying to get back.
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To your hotel and you weren't exactly at the finish line of
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the race that prevented you guys from getting in fuel right away.
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Definitely. And I think it's really
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important because oftentimes we think like once the race is
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over, like fueling doesn't matter.
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And especially if you're somebody who was training for
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multiple races or if you have a time based goal because I didn't
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fuel, I was more sore, right? And that's going to hinder like,
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my future training and like how refreshed and refueled and ready
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to go I was during this week. What other tips do you have for
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runners running half marathons? Fueling for a half marathon that
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you really found valuable from your experience this past
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weekend? I think one of the biggest
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things is we have to practice. You have to see what works best
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for you. For example, I do the gummy
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bears, but you might have tried gummy bears and you're like I
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can't chew these, they taste horrible, I don't like them.
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So you have to practice that because we don't want you to
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have that experience on race day, especially if you have
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something that is time based. I also with the practice, would
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recommend practicing when you're not as stressed and maybe when
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the stakes are not as high, because then you can make
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mistakes and you can learn. I had a client tell me something
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that I really loved and it's either like you win or you
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learn. So you're either being
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successful or you're learning from your failure.
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And I really thought that that applies so much to fueling as
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well. Oh my gosh, I love that and.
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Then the second thing that I would recommend making sure that
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you are eating enough leading up to your race.
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Something that I found a little challenging and just something
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that I had to I just made a note of was because I was traveling
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the day before the race, I was out of my normal environment.
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So I had to be really mindful about making sure that I
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hydrated and making sure that I fueled right.
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Packing enough snacks, packing enough water, packing enough
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electrolytes, because again, like I was in a car for 5 1/2
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hours, so I needed to make sure that I had all of my fueling
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with me. Which is something I think
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that's so easy to overlook because if you are traveling a
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distance similar do that you often think, oh, I'll just stop
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something and grab something along the way.
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But if that's something that you're not familiar with taking
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in the day before your long run, there's a potential for impact
22:20
from that for sure. So packing your snacks, packing
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your meal potentially that you're having in the car to
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avoid any upset stomachs or to avoid any uncomfortable feeling
22:30
because it's unfamiliar is such a huge thing to remember to do.
22:34
Definitely. We actually hit bad weather when
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we were in the car. It made it more challenging for
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us to potentially stop. And additionally, kind of
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mentioning what you just shared, I was not used to eating out as
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much. My sister's boyfriend actually
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made us this like amazing home cooked Italian meal before a
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race. But I remember like after the
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race and for the rest of that day and on Sunday, I felt so
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full because I was not used to eating out.
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If you're somebody who does a lot of home cooked meals, eating
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out you know the day or a couple days before your race could
23:06
definitely affect how you feel and could affect your feeling
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choices. Yeah.
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So even though we talked a lot about like the things that you
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brought your fueling for the morning of the race, sometimes
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if you are staying in a unfamiliar place or you might
23:18
have like limited access to kitchen equipment, you might
23:20
need to cook like your dinner for the night before and have
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that prepped and ready to go or have something that feels
23:26
familiar. Because like Riley said, like if
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it's something that you aren't used to eating, it can impact
23:30
how you're feeling. And then if you are feeling
23:32
fuller than you normally feel, then that can make it even more
23:35
difficult to fuel the morning of your race.
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So trying to keep everything as similar as possible to what
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you're your home schedule is like and what your home fueling
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is like is one of the best things that you can do to set
23:45
yourself up for success when you're going to run a race in a
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unfamiliar city. Exactly.
23:49
You control what you can control, and you prepare for
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what you can't. Exactly.
23:53
And never underestimate the power of a good peanut butter
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and Jelly sandwich when you're in the car.
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That's what I had for lunch the day before my race.
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Going out to California, every single race we've had peanut
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butter and Jelly sandwiches. It's just a rated way to fuel.
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It is. And you know what?
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They're pretty darn good. They are.
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Anything else that you share from your race or anything that
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you're looking forward to as phase two of your run a marathon
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in 2025 kind of comes to life. I don't know.
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I'm just really excited. I mean, again, I learned a lot
24:20
this past weekend and I'm excited to kind of just go into
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this new phase and I don't know marathon's going to be here
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before I know it. I'm so excited for you.
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As Riley has shared multiple times on this podcast, she's
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running the New York Marathon this coming year, which is so,
24:33
so exciting. So my plan is to try to get out
24:35
there to cheer Riley on. Very excited for you.
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If you have questions for Riley and I over running over period
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recovery or anything nutrition related, feel free to reach out
24:44
to us. You can leave questions in the
24:45
comments of this podcast or you can find us online.
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You can find Riley on Instagram at easy sports dot nutrition and
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you can find me at Jenna dot Fisher dot nutrition.
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