Happy Wednesday!
This has been a loooong week for me, even though it’s only Wednesday! I arrived in Chicago at 7:30am Monday morning and headed straight to work, then my small group met that evening and I didn’t get to bed until about 10:30pm (which is very late for me…). I finally made it to the grocery store last night to grab a few essentials, but I didn’t get too much since I’m heading out of town again straight from work Friday night! I’m already exhausted just thinking about it, but I’m going to Kansas City and always love a good trip home.
For today’s What I Ate Wednesday, I wanted to share a lot of the food we ate during the Palmetto 200 Relay. How do you pack and figure out meals when you’re up and running for 32 hours? Well here’s what we did!
I did hope to show everything I ate during the race, but I kept forgetting to take pictures, and that rain put a damper on photography, but I did my best! If you’re new to WIAW, head on over to Peas and Crayons to find out what it’s all about and see the other participating bloggers.
First, breakfast! I already mentioned Le Peep yesterday… But I got their Colorado omelet, which had turkey, avocado, mozzarella cheese, and tomatoes, with potatoes on the side. It was pretty good, but I will never again eat an omelet on race day, no matter how many hours later my run is.
My next two “meals” were half an Udi’s bagel, the first with almond butter and a banana, the second with almond butter and some jelly we “secured” from Le Peep.
For dinner I had a baked potato from Wendy’s and some chili. I don’t know what little town that Wendy’s was in but I don’t recommend it… They were not the most well-functioning fast food place. I also don’t recommend gas station coffee at 11:30pm. That was an experience.
For breakfast, we stopped at Starbucks in Mt Pleasant where I had blueberry oatmeal. Snacks included trail mix, snack bars, cuties, starburst jelly beans and some Healthy Bites sent to us from Lindsay!
Earth Fare and Attune Foods were kind enough to donate food to our whole team to keep us fueled, which we very much appreciated!
Can you only eat certain foods before a race or big workout?
What are your favorite travel snacks?
oh so you got the paleo ones! the bacon ones were vegan, probably why the other van had them. haha
Haha they stole the bacon ones! Mine were good too though – I had a birthday cake one and I LOVED the sprinkles!
OOH I WANNA TRY THAT MACRO BAR!!!!!
SO good!
my pre-race meal is always oatmeal with peanut butter, cinnamon, banana, and honey!
Yuuuuum!
eating healthy on the go is such a challenge sometimes! I always have a Kind bar floating around on the bottom of my purse somewhere haha
Yes – my desk drawer has several KIND bars in there!
The night before a race I always have spaghetti for dinner and then I HAVE to eat a bagel the morning of. It is my pre-race ritual and my whole race feels off if it doesn’t happen!
Spaghetti sounds good to me!
Eating well on the go is always a challenge! I totally ate a bunch of protein bars on the day of Mega Madness (which was good b/c I needed the fuel fast), but I missed the fresh stuff. Hence why lunch was so tasty!
Can’t even imagine gas station coffee at 1130….. :/
Omg never have gas station coffee in the middle of the night if you can help it…
I’m not a race girl, but my go-to travel snack is my homemade lara bars. Super-easy (and inexpensive) to make and take along in your bag. If you’re interested, I have a few different varieties on my recipe page. http://www.bumpsweat.com/recipes/
Ooo homemade lara bars sound good!
wohoooo healthy bites 🙂
Haha so good!
it’s been forever since we’ve raced, but when we did we liked coconut oil stuffed dates. so good
I have a friend who does that for fuel, sounds good!
Pre-race morning is always toast with nut butter and banana slices. My stomach is so finicky!
That was always my pre-race meal, especially during marathon training!