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RE: Pasta La Vista, Baby
I'll just say this for now...
Once you adjust to running primarily on fat, you do *not* need any form of carbohydrate loading prior to a run of less than four hours or so. Lately I have completed all my early runs, including the long runs of up to three hours on empty, i.e. before breakfast, with no ill effects at all. The part of the method that remains untested, and which is of primary interest to me this year is to see if Maffetone's promise holds true. That is, that if you maintain low heart-rate training for a sufficiently long enough period (and that period is vey individual, but seems typically seems to be some months), then you will not only match your previous high-carb diet pace, but exceed it.
Well, to be honest I am a little sceptical about breaking shorter distance PBs using this method. I'm far more interested in completing marathons without glycogen depletion (hitting the wall) and without injury risk. This, for me, is where the method seems to have the most promise.
It's definitely worth persisting with, and I will report back in coming weeks and months.
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