Sit in front of a computer? Hunched over your handlebars this past weekend? This week, our good friend and mobility coach Dee Tidwell gives us some tips to relieve stress in our shoulders, back muscles, and rotator cuffs.
People often ask me “what do you eat before a big mountain race?” My tongue-in-cheek answer is "beer, of course!" Then I follow up with the real answer, which usually is "it depends on the race."
Each package contains two 100-calorie bite-sized squares. We recommend consuming a square every 20 to 30 minutes. Most nutritionists prescribe 200 to 300 calories per hour of exercise.
For starters, the marathon includes 7,815 feet of elevation gain over narrow, rocky trails. Also, the turnaround point is at the oxygen-deprived attitude of 14,050 feet. The temperature on the course can vary by as much as 50 degrees