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Originally Posted by pgardn
I used to milkshake before 5K's that I was trying to set a PR for. It never worked.
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Because the body is an amazing machine, that corrects whatever nonsense we do to it
Human marathoners can carbohydrate-load, however (if done correctly), Iditarod sled dogs can't (but the dogs can become metabolically adapted to preferentially use fat rather than carbohydrate aerobically).
I have a great interest in looking at feeding sprinters differently than route horses. Few try this in the TB world (although in other horse sports it's done very successfully)