I have learned over the years, that fueling adequately before a big weekend of workouts, is very important. My body needs energy to perform and I need to prepare it ahead of time.

Before a big weekend of workouts, I typically up my food intake for a couple of days.  On big weekends, I burn a lot of calories, and it is often not possible to replace those calories, in real time. I need some energy reserves.

As my Friday night meal, I will often make a home-made pizza.  This is a double bonus, because it not only allows me to indulge in some ‘bad’ food, but it also provides a lot of calories.  Tonight was no different; I made pizza.

This weekend I have a long bike ride tomorrow, that includes several high effort intervals. On Sunday, my long run also includes some higher intensity work.  I am scheduled to work out for well over five hours over the two days.  I will likely burn something like 3,500 calories, just from working out.  I need to get those calories from somewhere.

So remember, if you have a heavy training load ahead of you, fueling adequately ahead of time is very important.