[GavinDuffy]

Great work getting through a day like that so well! Fair play John!

[GavinDuffy]

Great racing lads and huge congrats on the new club record Will! The serious miles you’ve logged on Strava have paid off! 🙂 Fair play!!

[GavinDuffy]

Hi Peter,

I think 360 cycles previously top bike shop in Clontarf rent bikes so worth checking,

Gavin

[GavinDuffy]

Thanks Debbra, glad to hear it was helpful! Thanks to everyone for attending! As Pierre was saying at the end, if people wanted to directly contact us or post up to this forum if they’d like another follow up talk in a few weeks, and what they’d like to hear/see more of etc.. that’d be great. Id be happy to hear any feedback from anyone.

The slides from today’s presentation and the handout on carb loading/race day preparation are downloadable online here –> https://twitter.com/grassfedireland/status/574236793274560512 . If someone wants to save them to the site for easier access please do, I don’t know how to do it!

Thanks

[GavinDuffy]

Great work on finding someone Paul!

@ Steven – What would you currently eat/drink in a sprint vs HIM?

@ Antje – I’ll have a carb loading handout to give to people attending and will talk through it as well, thanks for the suggestions!

@ Paul – Are you sure it was the gels? Did you eat a lot the day before and morning of the race also? Had you used the gels in training or used them at different races and in different conditions? (heat/distance/smaller breakfast etc…) Have you ever tried eating anything else on the run?

The talk will include:
– Role of Nutrition in Training
– Other Important Factors
– Role of Carbohydrate/Protein/Fat
– Food Choices – Training vs Non Training Days
– Carb Loading
– Habits Around Eating
– Supplementing Your Diet
– Pitfalls, Tips And Measuring Progress

Nutrition is very personal and specific to what works for you, what you’ve trained to adapt to and your tastes/prefereneces. Regularly practicing and experimenting with alternative feeding options e.g. different gels, different sports drinks, different sweets… should be part of training and especially used in key sessions in the build up to races. If racing IM, trial runs of alternative strategies should be done on the longer training days that best replicates the race e.g. 1 hour swim, have what you expect to eat on race day for breakfast, get up at the time you expect to get up on race day, then straight on to a 4-5 hour bike (i.e. don’t sit for breakfast before it) with the same nutrition you expect to use on race day (you could use a loop for ease of access to supplies), and then again in to a transition run making sure to trial gels etc while running.. and get feedback from your body as to how they feel/work.

Cookie cutter approaches to nutrition in general won’t work well, and especially so for something specific like Ironman or 70.3 where everyone has different energy demands based on fat burning abilities, size/weight, clothing, sweat rate, weather, speed/time on course, tastes/preferences, carb-loaded etc… Asking and listening to training partners and experienced racers on what they eat/drink can give great ideas for you to practise yourself in training, and then keeping a record in a training journal or similar with notes on how you felt eating/drinking different things can be really helpful. Athletes have very varied and different yet successful eating strategies so the more you experiment until you find one that works well for you, the better!

[GavinDuffy]

Hi All,

The speaker we had lined up for the injury prevention can’t make it this Saturday. If anyone had a suggestion for someone within the club that could do it or anyone that would like to do it, send me a message to sort out the details!

Thanks!

[GavinDuffy]

Wow! It was a photo finish in the end!! Great work everyone!! The top 5 were:

Kevin Beades 641
antje danneberg 639
Anthony Mulholland 573
Steven Moody 540
Siobhan Forman 520

It’ll stand to you when the racing season comes in! I hope it was a little bit of extra motivation to get you out the door (or on the turbo) in freezing February!

[GavinDuffy]

Hey guys and gals,

Let me know any Sports Nutrition questions you’d like answered or anything you’d like covered in this Saturday’s talk. There will be a physio in to cover the injury prevention as well!

Gav

[GavinDuffy]

Great work flying fish!

Towards the end of week 1 the standings are:

Anthony Mulholland 168
Antje Danneberg 136
Declan Cunningham 117
Laura Moynihan 107
Gerard Vowles 103

Great work, at least the weather is starting to cooperate a little as well!

[GavinDuffy]

Thanks Siobhan & Anthony! thought i’d set it correctly oops!

Good numbers signing up so far, great work everyone! Get involved! 🙂

[GavinDuffy]

I’ll see what I can do! We have had up to 42 members in previous years so get signing up! You can see the tabs down the bottom of the page have a previous year’s total to see what people got up to previously!

Starts Sunday!

[GavinDuffy]

Great idea, the Park Runs are so handy and enjoyable, i’ll be there tomorrow!

[GavinDuffy]

Great news Dara!

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[GavinDuffy]

Great news for the club! Delighted they picked us for the National Champs! Looks like loads of choice in the calendar for everyone as well so please keep August 23rd clear in the diary to make DCT another year to remember!

[GavinDuffy]

Great work lads! Very impressive stuff!!

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