Meal Ideas for the night BEFORE the Marathon?

[nasmith]

I'm doing my first half-marathon on Saturday and DH is doing his first Marathon on Sunday (WDW Of course) -and I am trying to plan meal ressies for this trip. I'm an experienced WDW trip planner ( oh, maybe about 50 trips under my belt) - but I'm still at a loss as to WHAT to eat on Saturday night that would make both of us happy! I imagine I'll be starving and he shouldn't eat anything heavy.....What do you think?? Any opinions out there??

 

[littlegreydonkey]

Can't help with specific onsite restaurant suggestions, but the general rule is that you need lots of carbs the day before the marathon - and that you shouldn't eat anything different from what you train with. Most runners stick with the pasta option - we generally eat offsite so for the marathon last year I went to TGI Fridays at Crossroads, for the half at DL I went to Red Lobster and had shrimp pasta. At home, I normally race the morning after a big plate of spicy noodles - but I've found trying that elsewhere leads me to run out of energy (must be different noodle type or something).

So if it were me, I'd look at the type of food your husband is training with and try and fit something around that - also, eat early, you need rest the night before (although the most important night for sleep is reputedly the day before that).

As for your post recovery meal, I've eaten everything from a pint of Ben and Jerry's, a full on Mexican banquet to a small burger from Carls Jnr as my post race dinner - it really depends how tired I feel, the only thing I do find is that I have to have sugar about 3pm on race day or everything just goes wrong. Helen

 

[Dina]

We have reservations for Prime Time for 5pm the night before-- I wonder if that was a bad idea (my husband is running the marathon).

 

[solotraveler]

We have reservations for Prime Time for 5pm the night before-- I wonder if that was a bad idea (my husband is running the marathon).

I'm sure you'll be fine. Just make sure he avoids anything "weird" (i.e. anything overtly spicy, curry, etc) and anything overly heavy/fatty (it's a bad night for chicken fried steak). If there is nothing he feels comfortable with, I'm sure the chefs will be able to whip up something for him.