Posts tagged race nutrition

Knowing how much to eat on race day can be tricky, especially if you race late. Coach Chris Mayhew offers advice on how to fuel your cyclocross race days.

Nutritionist Kristen Arnold joins this week’s Training Tuesday to provide advice on proper nutrition for the demands of racing cyclocross.

Because no one has written much on nutrition for cyclocross racers, we at Cyclocross Magazine decided to ask Fitzgerald for some cyclocross-specific advice. As ’crossers, we have interesting nutritional needs: we race in all types of temperatures and climates, we go hard for 45 minutes two days a week and then recover to do it all again and of course, we do love the beer tent. We’re a nutritional enigma, trying to eat healthy surrounded by waffle carts and chocolate-covered bacon and trying to stay svelte for a long season that often isn’t a racer’s main season is a challenge in and of itself. It gets even harder when racers’ schedules demand a lot of recovery and travel time, and little by way of long hours on the bike. Luckily, Fitzgerald had some tips for us.