PMID- 30747558 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190531 LR - 20190531 IS - 1543-2742 (Electronic) IS - 1526-484X (Linking) VI - 29 IP - 2 DP - 2019 Mar 1 TI - Contemporary Nutrition Strategies to Optimize Performance in Distance Runners and Race Walkers. PG - 117-129 LID - 10.1123/ijsnem.2019-0004 [doi] AB - Distance events in Athletics include cross country, 10,000-m track race, half-marathon and marathon road races, and 20- and 50-km race walking events over different terrain and environmental conditions. Race times for elite performers span approximately 26 min to >4 hr, with key factors for success being a high aerobic power, the ability to exercise at a large fraction of this power, and high running/walking economy. Nutrition-related contributors include body mass and anthropometry, capacity to use fuels, particularly carbohydrate (CHO) to produce adenosine triphosphate economically over the duration of the event, and maintenance of reasonable hydration status in the face of sweat losses induced by exercise intensity and the environment. Race nutrition strategies include CHO-rich eating in the hours per days prior to the event to store glycogen in amounts sufficient for event fuel needs, and in some cases, in-race consumption of CHO and fluid to offset event losses. Beneficial CHO intakes range from small amounts, including mouth rinsing, in the case of shorter events to high rates of intake (75-90 g/hr) in the longest races. A personalized and practiced race nutrition plan should balance the benefits of fluid and CHO consumed within practical opportunities, against the time, cost, and risk of gut discomfort. In hot environments, prerace hyperhydration or cooling strategies may provide a small but useful offset to the accrued thermal challenge and fluid deficit. Sports foods (drinks, gels, etc.) may assist in meeting training/race nutrition plans, with caffeine, and, perhaps nitrate being used as evidence-based performance supplements. FAU - Burke, Louise M AU - Burke LM AD - 1 Australian Institute of Sport. AD - 2 Australian Catholic University. FAU - Jeukendrup, Asker E AU - Jeukendrup AE AD - 3 Loughborough University. FAU - Jones, Andrew M AU - Jones AM AD - 4 University of Exeter. FAU - Mooses, Martin AU - Mooses M AD - 5 University of Tartu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20190404 PL - United States TA - Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab JT - International journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism JID - 100939812 RN - 0 (Dietary Carbohydrates) RN - 0 (Performance-Enhancing Substances) SB - IM MH - Adaptation, Physiological MH - Athletes MH - Athletic Performance/*physiology MH - Dietary Carbohydrates MH - Humans MH - *Nutritional Requirements MH - Performance-Enhancing Substances/administration & dosage MH - Running/*physiology MH - *Sports Nutritional Physiological Phenomena MH - Walking/*physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - African runners OT - CHO loading OT - CHO periodization OT - marathon OT - track and field EDAT- 2019/02/13 06:00 MHDA- 2019/06/01 06:00 CRDT- 2019/02/13 06:00 PHST- 2019/02/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/06/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/02/13 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1123/ijsnem.2019-0004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2019 Mar 1;29(2):117-129. doi: 10.1123/ijsnem.2019-0004. Epub 2019 Apr 4.