Last year I tried the no coffee trick before IMFL, week of no coffee and race went fine. This year, this week before Clearwater I am completely miserable. I am falling asleep driving to work in the morning, my head hit the keyboard twice yesterday, promptly I fell asleep at 8.30 last night, skipped my swim this morning, hopefully I can be awake and swim tonight.
Is the coffee high going to be worth it on Saturday morning, or should I cave in and run over to “5Bucks” for a nice cup of Americano with a bit of soy on top?
Dev, how did you manage?
Anyway, good luck to everyone racing this weekend,
As I sit here enjoying my double Tall Caramel Macchiato knowing that my Clearwater taper is going well and i’m gonna take down that dog Flanagan, I can honestly say: life is goooooood.
Maybe it’s the caramel, maybe it’s the caffeine, or maybe it’s the fact that i’m not restricting myself from doing something I love unless it involves the words ‘Sweet Tart,’ ‘Hershey,’ ‘egg-nog,’ or ‘LT-intervals.’
Dude, your problem is this 2 races in 2 weeks thing. Even an overraced guy like me would not do a half the weekend after a full and suffer out the coffee fast over all that! I think it is over to Sbucks for you :-).
how can you drink an entire mug of espresso and still be functioning? They serve it in teeny tiny cups here and a single is still all I need to get going…
I perform so much better when I don’t drink coffee, atleast in races but not at work. Myu stomach handle the long runs so much better if I’m coffee-free, don’t know why… My experience is several disaster long runs due to coffee, so no more for me. I have had no problem when I have stayed cofein-free.
yeah, 5 bucks, although i have a ‘deal’ with a coworker. he pays me sums of money after he eats unhealthy snacks. i use it for coffee or donate it to charity. in this case it went to coffee.
go get a gingerbread latte, whats one more shot. i heard on the radio this morning that they were not yet available, pleasantly surprised they were wrong.
Just when I thought that coffee had no effect on me because I got away on 5hrs of sleep… No coffee I need 7-8 hrs of sleep. I am going to be very well rested this Saturday. Maybe not very fast, but very rested.
I originally thought that you don’t drink coffee all week then by having a cup race morning you get a boost. After reading Devs Xtri article I learned that it is to get that additional sleep to sub for the lack of coffee , in order to recover/taper properly.
just reading your post and savoring every glorious , rich, aromatic sip of my grande americano quatro, I can actually feeeeeel the caffeine soaking into my soul…
Dev says: Dude, your problem is this 2 races in 2 weeks thing. Even an overraced guy like me would not do a half the weekend after a full and suffer out the coffee fast over all that! I think it is over to Sbucks for you :-).
I think this is a challenge for you Dev. To win the ST Over Trained Dude of the Year you gotta give this a try.