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Originally Posted by coachjeff

Also..."Ultramarathon Man," Dean Karnasas lives on a paleo diet during training. He eats no grains. His training diet is moderately low carb.

But for him, a "training run" is most folk's idea of a marathon. It's only when he's running one of 100 mile or more races that he eats lots of carbs, during the actual run itself.

Have you ever read the "Paleo Diet for Athletes"? I thought it would be all about ketoadaption and eating organ meats. No, the whole first chapters recommend all the ways you can get carbs via sports beans, gels, Gatorade, etc. I don't eat grains, but I eat a relatively high amount of carbs compared to what I used to for my runs - my performance suffers alot if I don't. I tried adapting but I was getting injured...