Carbo-load party: how many calories?

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tomorrow is my marathon carbo-load party. i’m worried. thankfully, i’ve lost almost 10 lbs with dev paul’s zero weight gain campaign. but tomorrow could be deadly. potluck buffet. delicious trigger foods…

obviously, i’m gonna nibble. but could be dangerous.

how many calories max? 500?

cyclisto

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3500
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I’ve followed Gordo’s carboload plan for IM (no experience w/ a marathon) and the day before I eat about 3,500-4,500 calories or so (lots of high GI stuff). My race weight is about 190lb or so. Not sure if this helps.

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LOAD! 500 calories before a marathon is starving yourself… I take in more than that the night before before a normal long training run.

I try and add some meat to my carbs too… seems to make me feel more energized the next day.

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I’m definitely not an expert, but if you’ve done a pretty good job of replenishing your glycogen stores in the several days before your marathon, I’m not sure that you need to carbo load.

EDIT: Link added — http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=176

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get real, either you are trained or you are not. You training pace isnt going to drastically change over your race pace in a marathon. You dont “carbo-load party” before every training run do you?

Just eat normally, grab a gel before you start and go.

Good luck

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Uh…I think my response kind of agreed with you…sort of…

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Carbo-loading is to top off your glycogen stores. It won’t speed you up, but it will allow you more time until you hit the “wall” in a marathon b/c you’ve stored that many more carbohydrates in the body’s preferred reservoir of energy at marathon intensity.

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500 calories is two clif bars

Carb loading will be 4x that
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