Dilbert wrote:
Rice. Lots of rice. Or derivatives rice noodles, rice pasta, rice flour bagel with nut butter. Oh yah nuts and nut butters. Dark chocolate.
Race morning breakfast: GF bagel with nut butter, coffee, maybe banana, then a power bar at the race site an hour+ before swim.
My first full as well but before long rides this. I'm lucky as in I have a BS in Exercise Phys. 3-5 hours before competition shoot for 3-5 grams of carbs per a kg of body weight. That's gonna be hard... For a fatty like me that's like enough rice to make you burst.
On the coffee note, I usually switch out for Red Bull before a race. As coffee has a tendency to make me drop a steamer a few hours after having it. I guess if you have it out far enough it won't effect the race. But also all the sugar in the Red Bull helps me hit my carb goal. On the way to almost any tri I'll drink a sport drink on the way up, and have a cliff bar, or banana while I'm waiting around.
I still lapped everyone on the couch!