Hi, this is Jolie Rainsford from Bad Boy Running. You're listening to Part 2 of episode 11 on race preparation.

If you're not listening to Part 1 of the episode, go and listen to that now, otherwise this is going to make much sense.

Here, we're kicking off the discussion with David talking about what he does before a race.

Have you got a routine that you've stuck with for a long time that you've made small changes in?

And how long ago did you come up with this routine?

So before I, before I got my marathon PB, I did pretty much every type of research I could

into all nutrition, into all clothing, into all training plans.

And just tried to look at, because as you said before,

you often get conflicting advice.

But I've tried to take on board and then test it.

But for me, I mean, some of the big ones, because I mean, I've written an article about

how to run the perfect marathon, which has got probably about 40 points. I think the big ones, though. Don't start cross-pollinating here. Don't start from a motion. It's on one of your other websites or something. Absolutely. Is it beer-billy running? Is it on beer-milly running? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm really proud of that article as well. the um i think the main ones are carb loading

i'll yeah yeah i'm really proud of that article as well the um i think the main ones are carb loading

i'll carb load like a sumer wrestler i have i think the the minimum i have is seven grams of carbs

per kilogram and weighing at the time right and. And it's a huge amount.

It doesn't sound that much

when you hear it like that.

But actually,

if you think of people

who have a big bowl of pasta,

a big bowl of pasta

is maybe 100 grams of dry pasta,

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