Re: RC: Reply from an educated derelict

[David LeBlanc <dleblanc@mindspring.com>]

At 03:34 PM 12/27/99 EST, Tivers@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/27/99 11:43:55 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
>dleblanc@mindspring.com writes:

><< >invented glycogen loading techniques (by 
> >accident) that have won millions of dollars in purses for others
 
> I was also doing this racing bikes in the mid-70's.  Bicycling has events
> that typically last 5-6 hours (with no regulated rest stops).  It was a
> well-known and common technique in cycling as far back as the early 70's.
> When was it first applied to horses? >>

>About 4 years ago, on a horse named Acey Mack. What was your human glycoen 
>loading protocol, by the way?

You got up about 4AM and ate a good breakfast with little to no meat, and
then you'd have most of your digestion done by the time the race started
around 8AM.  During the race, you'd try to eat things that were extremely
easily digestible.  Someone else just posted that current practice is a
little different, and they're eating fats.

Could be also be a function of race length, since a bicyclist will do a 100
in about 5 hours, and a 25 mile criterion in about an hour.  In a 100,
you're burning just about all fats after around 30 miles out.  A criterion
isn't long enough to make fat utilization a real issue.


David LeBlanc
dleblanc@mindspring.com


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