Quote Originally Posted by christopher leigh View Post
Diet is secondary. If you aren't training hard enough to stimulate growth and resting long enough so growth can take place, then no diet in the world is going to make any difference. Anyway if you were building a brick wall it would take energy to move the bricks into place. Some of that energy comes from sugar. Likewise inside the body the building blocks of greater muscular size require energy to move them into place.
This may have come up before, but due to my ITB problems i only run once a week. Whether it be a race or a training run, either way i run hard enough to feel DOMS for a few days so i like to take the opportunity to help maximise muscle build in view of this. I seem to have tuned my legs to go very fast for anything up to about 5 miles. When i did Skiddaw, 8.5 miles, i was on my arse at around the 6.5 mile mark and i was reduced to a walk up the very gentle slope into the park!