what are some of your pre-race rituals? How long do you do them before a race?
pre-race rituals
- Thread starter Big_Papa1080
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I like a nice pre race wizz... I let fly as needed. 
For my breakfast in the morning I have to have a toasted bagel, egg and cheese. It has to be an egg bagel, extra sharp cheddar cheese and the yellow of the egg has to be cooked all the way. If it isn't just right, my race will be shot. I eat this about 4 hours before the race.
I eat this about 4 hours before the race.
pre-race rituals? I just got to get my lazzy a$$ out of bed, and that usualy does the trick
%90 of the race is just being there.
%90 of the race is just being there.
I wish I had some crazy superstition or something but no, I just eat breakfast and warm up. How boring that sounds. 
i dont mean anything superstitious, I just mean how do you prepare for a race. Like do you eat differently starting a few days before or do you go to bed earlier or anything like that.
Ahhh
Yep, I start a carbo load on Wednesday for my Saturday races. If it's an "A" priority race then I will have started a training taper that week too. I get 8 hours a sleep almost ever night anyway so I generally don't mess with my sleep schedule. Let me slip one of my sponsors in here...I take REM caps that are made by e-caps and those help me get enough sleep. They are primarily Valerian Root extract but have a few secondary ingredients as well:
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i get really drunk and irie the night before. i go to bed no more than 5 hours before i have to get up. in the morning i eat copious amounts of greasy food, smoke a few cigarettes, drink some liquid anal crowbar ( coffee), take a crap. get irie. then forget what i was doing a couple of times. finally i ride after being up and moving for a couple of hours.
Yah, thanks for your valuable input.
I have not had a single leg cramp since I started using the Endurolytes... e-caps kicks ass
Eat a good breakfast, warm up, do some practice runs and then I ALWAYS say a quick prayer in the gate!!
after my egg sandwich 3 hours before the race,
i jump up and down in front of the mirror
and yell:
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
;-)
i jump up and down in front of the mirror
and yell:
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
"i wanna be like heidi!!!"
;-)
Careful what you wish for.
To be honest all I do is make sure I'm well rested in terms of my legs. I try to remeber to hydratea couple days before. The night before a race I have big early dinner that way it's fully digested when I wake up so I take a big **** in the morning. Than I eat breakfast 3-4 hours before the start usaully my musli I always have or oatmeal.
I like a good long warm up listening to Ice Cube. Just slip your CD player into one of your back jersey pockets.
In the morning before a DH race I'll have a beer or two to depending on how gnar the course is and eat some Goldfish snacks or leftover pizza. I don't really do much a few days before to prepare my health nutritionally. Its mostly mental to me not health wise so I just ride like any other week beforehand to keep the blood flowin' and the sweat pourin'. Oh and try to watch some mtb vids the night before to get all pumped up for the next morning. For a dual slalom race I'll do the same except drink a beer in between the rounds
I always eat ravioli and meat sauce the night before
then I get up 3 hours piror to the race and compltely go over each part of my bike fine tuning.
then I get up 3 hours piror to the race and compltely go over each part of my bike fine tuning.
This isn't my ritual but my friend eats a stick of butter and drinks a gallon of chocolate milk throughout the day.
i'm about to puke just thinking about that
That is extremely disgusting.