Originally Posted by
dooner90
I gotta ask. So I've got a triathalon in August that I'm presently training for. My girlfriend and I are cutting sugar. You say that you became super responsive to sugar after cutting it out in regular diet. What would happen if I took sugar during the race/before the race?
For me, in a race, it's a performance enhancing drug. I did my best to race clean except I would carry a small bar of 50% sugar, 50% maple syrup. (I already knew maple syrup was at least part sucrose just by its effect on me. 30 years later I learned, yes, the pure stuff is 50% sucrose, 50% fructose. So my bar was 75% sucrose.) I'd eat that bar in the late miles of the race, say the last 10.
How long is your race? I'd worry about crashing before finishing. And if I were doing it and planning on starting the sugar early and eating it throughout to stay high that I would revert back to the life of sugar every day. As much as I realized with my test that sugar was a performance enhancing drug, I realized also that it is for me, addictive; both building tolerance and craving when it is removed. I've chosen not to go that route.
Ben