La Chute Road Runners Krispy Kremes
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Jim Cunningham
had this box of Ginger Snaps in the kitchen cabinet. When I was hungry, I grabbed a handful. Ginger is good for you; is it not? I even tipped the box over for easier access. The box got periodically emptied but thin walled cardboard is so recyclable! Again, as I walked my pups and listened to iPod casts, I heard this statement: “Carb loading is so 80’s!” Curious, I started downloading podcasts on nutrition. I listened to Dr. Stacy Sims Phd, who researches sports nutrition. She
March, 2016
started a war on carbs. http://www. A thorough discussion of this problem outsideonline.com/1920031/stacy- is can be found in this podcast, hopesimss-war-sports-drinks fully you have an hour to listen: http://www.enduranceplanet.com/ War on carbs? Why? stacy-sims-phd-the-science-of-hydration/ It has to do with osmolality. Osmolality refers to the amounts of solutes in What is her solution? She advocates a solution. The more solutes the higher less than 4 percent solution of carbothe osmolality. Maltodextrin, fructose, hydrates. Gatorade has 8 percent. As and sucrose are some other solutes an aside, she is co-owner of a sports in sports drinks. If the osmolality of drink company: Osmo. Interestingly, the sport drink one ingests is higher she does “dis” her own company saythan the osmolality of the blood, fluid ing that is not necessary to buy a comand electrolytes are drawn out of the mercial product, and recommends body and muscles and transferred eating food while working out like a into the intestines to balance the solu- peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She tion in the intestine, with the net effect notes that, however, sports drinks are of dehydration and loss of electrolites. for convenience. http://www.theissnscoop.com/sniinterviews-stacy-sims-phd-all-things- There is a second problem of carbohydration/ hydrate ingestion. On to the Krispy Kremes! It doesn’t take too many KKs
to fuel a race. It takes 1.8 for a 5K. If one was running much longer and wanted to fuel on KKs, this is what could happen. The brain detects a rise in blood sugar and messages the pancreas. The pancreas produces insulin and begins to store the sugar as fat. If many KKs are consumed there is a drop in the blood sugar level, then the brain messages again that the body is starving.
in Alabama. I don’t, however, keep the bag, like the box of Ginger Snaps tipped over.
provised costume depicting a fictional Chickasaw chief named Slacabamorinico.
Next time: fat as fuel. (What?) Also introducing coffee with coconut oil and heavy cream as a super fuel; (I don’t think so!) and…ketone salts. (Whatever!)
The Sunday before Fat Tuesday, Joe Cain Day is celebrated as part of the scheduled Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, with its center being the Joe Cain Procession (never called a parade).
Joe Cain 5K
This has been called “The People’s Parade” because it is performed by citizens without being run by a specific Mardi Gras krewe. Originally, anybody who showed up at the parade start on Sunday morning could join in with whatever makeshift float they could cobble together.
If one has a 4% solution or less of a sports drink and does a long warmave Rutkowski and Jim Cunningup, say with Matt, there is no problem; the sugar never gets to be stored as ham ran in the Joe Cain 5K a race held in fat, but used right away as fuel. Fur- Mobile, Alabama. It is credited with havthermore, if one is doing a triathlon ing the ugliest course and the best postrace party in the and waiting in a corral for the swim to country! start, it is best to drink water up until 10 minutes before the start, then a Joe Cain was sports drink can be had. If the sports credited with redrink is ingested while idle, it may restarting the Marsult in s drop in energy. http://ldsmag. di Gras in Mobile com/how-your-body-talks-sugar-andat the conclusion insulin/ of the Civil War. I did get a dozen KKs awarded at a Joe Cain paradrace; all gone a while ago. Fortunateed through the ly, for snacks now, I grab a hand full of streets of Mobile, pecans, after all I am, at the moment, dressed in an im-
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