Jun 24, 2026 · 50 min · 14 segments
Coach is walking you through his complete race weekend blueprint which starts 48 hours out and going all the way through post-race recovery. Diet, pacing discipline, the danger zone at miles 13–17…
Jeff CunninghamHost
Let's look at the 48 hours prior to the race, right? And sort of what we need to be thinking about, things that we need to be doing.
Very importantly, what about the things that we don't need to be doing? One, no new diets.
I know that this seems almost a well, duh, this is almost a given, but I feel the need to reiterate this only because I believe that we try to over-control.
that we actually don't have enough faith in what we've been doing that worked so well six weeks out, four weeks out, two weeks out before our big long-run workouts, for example.
What worked eight weeks out, three weeks out, even two weeks out, perhaps, before big mid-week workouts.
I tend to believe in identifiable trends where we can track performance based on preparation and thought process.
If you were eating rice, sweet potato, regular potatoes, and having maybe a pork chop, maybe a salad, and it worked, Why change it, right? Don't go for, you know, I'm going to drink three buckets of reindeer milk, right? And go and stand on my head for three hours, you know, while I, you know, eat Jell-O because somebody did it and it worked.
We're going to eat our boring pork chop, okay? And we're going to watch some bad Netflix.
If that's what worked before your big workouts, if that's what has worked before your big long run specifically, then gosh darn it, it's going to work on race day, right? No new diets.
Stick to the to the genres and the patterns and the types of things that work food-wise, right? You know, if you've never eaten fried taters, then don't eat fried taters.
Let's look at the 48 hours prior to the race, right? And sort of what we need to be thinking about, things that we need to be doing.
Very importantly, what about the things that we don't need to be doing? One, no new diets.
I know that this seems almost a well, duh, this is almost a given, but I feel the need to reiterate this only because I believe that we try to over-control.
that we actually don't have enough faith in what we've been doing that worked so well six weeks out, four weeks out, two weeks out before our big long-run workouts, for example.
What worked eight weeks out, three weeks out, even two weeks out, perhaps, before big mid-week workouts.
I tend to believe in identifiable trends where we can track performance based on preparation and thought process.
If you were eating rice, sweet potato, regular potatoes, and having maybe a pork chop, maybe a salad, and it worked, Why change it, right? Don't go for, you know, I'm going to drink three buckets of reindeer milk, right? And go and stand on my head for three hours, you know, while I, you know, eat Jell-O because somebody did it and it worked.
We're going to eat our boring pork chop, okay? And we're going to watch some bad Netflix.
If that's what worked before your big workouts, if that's what has worked before your big long run specifically, then gosh darn it, it's going to work on race day, right? No new diets.
Stick to the to the genres and the patterns and the types of things that work food-wise, right? You know, if you've never eaten fried taters, then don't eat fried taters.
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