Carlos Dones joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss running 170 miles through the Grand Canyon NSNG on this Saturday episode of the Angriest Trainer podcast.
WHO IS CARLOS?
- Has run over one million miles, rim to rim of Grand Canyon
- Was at the LA meet up — Vinnie did a bike fitting for him and they became friends
GRAND TO GRAND
- Carlos called Vinnie asking if this race (170 miles across the Grand Canyon) NSNG
- Vinnie had his doubts
- Carlos has to carry everything he is going to eat — difficult due to time and heat
- 7 days, 6 stages, carrying everything you need
- Packaged, low sugar, minimum grain was the plan for Carlos
- Required to carry at least 14,000 calories
- Carlos carried 16,000 calories
- Carlos wanted to minimize sugar because he was becoming fat adapted
- Most of his food had between 2-3 grams of sugar
- Took UCAN bars, low sugar, Epic bars, turkey bars, beef bars
- Coconut oil, all types of nut butters
- 2 pre dehydrated meals per day
- Black beans, rice, vegetables
- ~600 calories per breakfast
- Averaging a marathon per day, mostly uphill
- Ate between 1000-1200 calories per day
- ~120 grams of sugar over the course of 7 days
- Carlos finished 34th place
- He did not crash at all
- Had no swelling, no elephantitis
