Alcohol & Running

[stumpy]

Personally I think a couple of pints of proper beer is ESSENTIAL nutrtion for fell runners the night before and after a race!

I was reading about Bradley Wiggins a few weeks ago. What shocked me more than the fact he was doing 6 hours a day training on just 1500 calories was that he said he was a beer lover, but was not touching a drop until after the Tour - how gutted will he be if he comes second after that sacrifice!!!!

Longest I've gone without beer since I was 17 was for a week whilst in hospital after shattering my collar bone into six pieces, breaking 2 ribs and puncturing a lung - my running was crap for some time after that and that must have been down to the lack of beer

[Brotherton Lad]

LOL. In 2003 I was hospitalised in Birmingham for a month with a spinal injury and infection. First thing I did when they unhooked the morphine and said I could start remedial walking was walk 2 miles to a pub and back. Felt like I'd run a half marathon. However, can't recommend mixing bitter with intravenous morphine. Went a bit light-headed.

[ZootHornRollo]

Personally I think a couple of pints of proper beer is ESSENTIAL nutrtion for fell runners the night before and after a race!

obviously it's a personal thing this, but I actually like the self-denial bit, of not having a pint for a few days before a race - it puts me in a positive, 'hard' frame of mind, and then I really enjoy my pint afterwards, like it's a massive reward - deferred pleasure and all that.

Don't do it every race - but I know when I've succumbed to a couple the night before, or gone out on a session a couple days before, I never quite start off in such a positive frame of mind as I do when I've been all Taliban about it.

[Fnstein]

I usually don't have more than a pint the day before a race, but the only race I've ever won was the day after a 6 pints of Golden Pippin. However I wouldn't advocate it as a foolproof strategy.

[Al Fowler]

Nice pint and a half after Causey Pike today.

[Derby Tup]

I ran Holme Moss a couple years ago after about eight or nine cans of Carling the night before. I won't do it again

[stevefoster]

I ran Holme Moss a couple years ago after about eight or nine cans of Carling the night before. I won't do it again

Holme Moss or the 8 or 9 cans

[Derby Tup]

Holme Moss or the 8 or 9 cans

Holme possibly, Carling never

[goldsim1963]

Sorry guys, just thought this was a good one to mention....

The Cressbrook crawl
http://www.highpeaktri.org/

I understand that, included in the entry charge, is a pint of locally brewed real ale.

Thoughts?

[ZootHornRollo]

isn't it the Old Crown Round where they serve a different ale on each top? I always confuse it with the Old County Tops - but it would be foolish probably to drink beer during that.