I have decided to abstain from caffeine in the build up to the Seattle Marathon on the 26th of November. Anybody know of any objective data showing how many days I need to abstain from coffee (my primary source of caffeine) to get the performance boost? I saw a couple of articles that I googled that talked about 3-4 days, but these were not primary research articles.
I don't consider myself a hardcore junkie, but I do have 2-3 cups of coffee every morning and an occasional cup in the afternoon. On rare occasions I will have a coke. I'm definitely feeling deprived without my java this morning, but I honestly think that is mostly psychological and not physiological. I have inadvertantly gone a couple of days without before and never thought twice about it. But out here on the ship, coffee is the cup of life and everybody around me is enjoying morning brew and I'm jonesing.
Will I make the next 3 weeks coffee-free, only time will tell.
Dan Hollingsworth
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur
I don't consider myself a hardcore junkie, but I do have 2-3 cups of coffee every morning and an occasional cup in the afternoon. On rare occasions I will have a coke. I'm definitely feeling deprived without my java this morning, but I honestly think that is mostly psychological and not physiological. I have inadvertantly gone a couple of days without before and never thought twice about it. But out here on the ship, coffee is the cup of life and everybody around me is enjoying morning brew and I'm jonesing.
Will I make the next 3 weeks coffee-free, only time will tell.
Dan Hollingsworth
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." - Douglas MacArthur