What to Eat During Your Next Race with Louise Kobin / LA RUTA

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What does a 4x La Ruta endurance mountain bike race champion eat during a race? Louise "La Ruta Lou" Kobin shares tips on diet for performance with our Spartan Up La Ruta series host Roy Wallack.

In this episode you’ll learn:

-What Louise eats and drinks during a race

-How often she’s consuming calories while on the bike

-What to eat and drink during that all important 30-minute window after a race

-Louise’s go-to meal during a multi-day race

For those of you who missed the first episode, Louise is a physical therapist, personal trainer, and former pro mountain bike racer. In addition to practicing Physical Therapy for 25 years, she’s trained and coached clients in their homes for almost 20 years. Today, Louise lives near Los Gatos and uses her background as a physical therapist to design safe and challenging exercise programs for a wide variety of clients and have discovered many creative ways to design home or gym based exercise programs-with or without elaborate equipment.

Learn more about Louise here: LouKobin.Com

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Producer: Ryan Warner

Host: Roy Wallack

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm trying to take in about 250 calories an hour, like approximately.
0:04.8	Welcome to the Larrutas series on Spartan Up Podcast with host Roy Wallach.
0:10.8	Hi, my name is Roy Wallach.
0:12.4	I'm the author of Bike for Life, How to Ride to 100. On today's
0:17.0	podcast, we're going to talk with one of the great champions of La Ruta, Louise Cobain will talk about her diet to be particularly
0:27.6	appropriate because she is a physical therapist so she has a lot to say on that issue.
0:33.4	This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Gone Rogue
0:36.1	high protein chips.
0:37.4	Visit Amazon or Gone Rogue Snacks.com
0:40.1	and use the promo code Spartan 25
0:42.2	to get 25% off.
0:45.7	Talk about a diet.
0:48.0	What do you eat on the bike?
0:49.8	It seems like I found that I got to really power that food in even when I don't want to eat because I'm so, you don't realize that you've been, you know, burning up so many calories how do you at your speed get all those calories in?
1:07.0	It's it's hard I actually I have a problem with hypoglycemia so I am very aware of I keep it I keep looking at my
1:18.4	box or my computer to see how much I need to eat and I'm trying to take in about 250 calories an hour,
1:26.2	like approximately, but I'm trying to put something in my system like every 10 to 15 minutes.
1:32.8	So what would that something be?
1:35.2	I used a lot of sustained energy from Hammer because I can all you can put about five to six hundred calories in a bottle and then I
1:46.2	can carry extra powder in a little baggie with me that I could mix up really quick at the aid stations.
1:54.5	Oh, okay.
1:55.3	I spent some time figuring out my diet, actually.
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