Most marathons and large triathlons have pre-race pasta dinners. Even athletes who don't attend the dinner make reservations weeks in advance at the closest Italian restaurant. Many athletes walking around the race expo are carrying large bottles of Gatorade, refilling them often. Is the pasta just a cheap race meal for the directors to put on or is there something to the practice of ingesting large amounts of carbohydrates before a big race?


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