on to the next one, plus some nutrition info

I'm 24 hours away from being on my way to idaho for ironman #4. i'm already packed up which is incredible for me, i usually procrastinate terribly. tomorrow i have a pretty big workload so it'll be hard to squeeze in one last training swim but think i can manage. today i put all of my nutrition stuff together. i'm guessing i'll take in 3,000-4,000 calories during the race but i'll be burning anywhere from 12,000-15,000 for the day. thats a big deficit. lots of muscle wasting will be going on. the key will be to put it off as long as i can. as well as dehydration. you can't stop it, you can only hope to delay it as much as possible. i have a mix of gels, drinks, and electolyte tabs, that i will be consuming along the course. my goal is one gel every 45-60 min(100 cal) one bottle of perpetuem every hour or so(270 cal) along with some bananas thrown in there somewhere towards the end. All in all it should be 4440 cal for the day if the plan works. Notice i didn't include any solid food. i will eat nothing but gel and perpetuem for 12 hours. exciting huh? think of me while you enjoy breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and then dinner. 3-2-1-go.