Just a teaspoon of sugar....

I recently wrote a short article for the Atlanta Track Club's Runner's Blog regarding recent carbohydrate research and how it may relate to runners participating in the upcoming 42nd annual Peachtree Road Race, the largest 10K in the world.  You can read it below....

Can just a teaspoon of sugar help your Peachtree time go down?

A 10K isn’t typically thought of as a distance that requires too much of a race nutrition plan. Strategies involving carbohydrate ingestion are usually the focus of runners competing in half marathon distances and above, but recent research over the past few years has revealed that ingesting just a sip of a sports drink during short term intense exercise (like a 10K race) may also lead to improved performance.^1-6 Here’s the real kicker…you don’t even have to swallow the drink to realize the benefit—simply swishing a carbohydrate solution around in your mouth and then spitting it out is sufficient. Read more.....