Transcript

Mick Curry

The diet is very, very important. It’s no good doing what some people do and eating junk food, because your levels drop you tend to binge a bit, which is very difficult. If you’ve got it in the house you tend to eat it. Its good to get three meals a day, though, never eat within three hours of a run, apart from chewing a banana or cereal bar. The weekend runner, he would study more on what he eats normally during the week, with a bit of a favourite during the week, he may eat pasta, rices, it just depends what they favour. Not too much alcohol and get plenty of water down, at least two litres a day. Fluid is more important than anything actually, you can hang on without food for a while.

About 2 to 2-and-a-half hours before we race we have cereals, usually porridge or cornflakes, but that’s not like a full meal on your stomach. The porridge or cereals we usually eat on the morning of a race one because they are very easy to digest, easy to prepare. Also helps your bowels, helps the system. One of the most difficult things actually running is if you suffer constipation or whatever, wind.

On the day of competition I can get down a lot of bananas, cereal bars different types, because you get fed up of the same thing. The reason I eat bananas and cereal bars is that they digest very easily; you eat them actually while you’re running. I have to pushing Philip because I’m probably doing double the running, double the fitness, using up double the nutrition, carbohydrate levels dropping, getting thirstier quicker not like an ordinary runner who can hang on for two or three miles, I have to eat and drink when I need to eat and drink. And I have to make sure in the bag on the back of the wheelchair there are bananas, cereal bars and drinks. I also have to feed Philip en route, very often still running doing it. You can probably say what I do is doubling what the other runners are doing.