Tuesday, April 17, 2007
In this month's Runner's World I learned two interesting things. My favorite comes from "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"'s Peter Sagal: when Lance Armstrong ran the New York Marathon he had an energy gel every mile. I haven't done the math, but it seems to me that he probably ended up with a net gain in calories. It also seems to me that eating 26 packets of Gu would be almost as big an endurance feat as the race. Do you suppose they were all the same flavor, or did he mix it up for variety? (Actually, after a quick Google I now know that Lance is a PowerBar man.)
