Race Weekend Nutrition Strategies
Race Day Nutrition Race Day Nutrition Starts The Day Before Good Food Choices During The Day Practice Good Hydration
Race Day Morning Warm-up 7:30 to 8:50 ( M) Food Intake: Carbohydrate dominated early meal(5:30am) oz of fluid with early meal 7-10 oz of sports drink minutes before warm-up(some Carbs and electrolytes) Carbohydrate intake during Warm-up ( min grams ingestion**)
Post Warm-Up Maintain body heat (avoid chilling use of excessive clothing Use of dynamic Warm-Up(bands, muscle activation) Nutrition at this point is dependent on time of athletes events and how the athlete feels Solid vs liquid or gel(Choice will be dictated by time between events)
Race Events 12 & under events: longest event lasting roughly 6 min. 13 & over events: longest event lasting roughly 20 min with a lot of events of 5-10 min duration
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Open Lap swimming for all State meet participants (only). Friday Preliminaries: 7:00 – 7:20 AM General Meeting (In the hospitality room behind the diving boards.) 7:30 – 8:50 AM Warm Up 7:35 AM Scratch Box closes for Friday Prelims and 500 Free 9:00 AM Events Start If you qualify for Finals and don’t want to compete in the event in the evening session you must scratch or declare your intention to scratch within 30 minutes after the qualifiers for finals in the event are announced. See the Meet Referee or his/her designee. Girls Boys Event # Event Name Event # 1 11/ Breast /12 50 Free &U 50 Free / IM &U 100 Back / Back &U 50 Fly /12 50 Fly &U 500 Free / Free 20 Friday Finals No Friday Finals Check In Required Scratch Box closes for Sat Prelims at 6:00 pm Saturday 200 Free Relays must be checked in by Coaches by 6:00 pm Warm-up:4:30 – 5:20 p.m. Events: 5:30 p.m. Event order: 1 thru 20 Fastest seeded heat (Top 8) of Events 17 – 20 (500 Free) swim in Finals
Saturday Prelims 7:30 – 8:50 AM Warm Up 9:00 AM Events Start 10:00 AM Sunday Relays Declared If you qualify for Finals and do not want to compete in the event in the evening session you must scratch or declare your intention to scratch within 30 minutes after the qualifiers for the finals in the event are announced. See the Meet Referee or his/her designee. Girls Boys Event # Event Name Event # 21 11/ Free &U 200 Free / Breast &U 100 Breast / Fly &U 50 Back /12 50 Back &U 100 IM / IM &U 200 Free Rel / Free Rel 42 Saturday Finals No Saturday Finals Check In Required Scratch Box closes for Sun Prelims and 400 IM at 6:00 pm Sunday 200 Medley Relays must be checked in by Coaches by 6:00 pm Warm-up: 4:30 - 5:20 p.m. Events: 5:30 p.m. Event order: 21 thru 42 Fastest seeded heats of relays swim in Finals
Sunday Prelims 7:30 – 8:50 AM Warm Up 9:00 AM Events Start 10:00 AM Sunday Relays Declared If you qualify for Finals and do not want to compete in the event in the evening session you must scratch or declare your intention to scratch within 30 minutes after the qualifiers for the finals in the event are announced. See the Meet Referee or his/her designee. Girls Boys Event # Event Name Event # 43 11/ Free &U 100 Free / Back &U 50 Breast /12 50 Breast &U 100 Fly / Fly &U 200 IM / IM &U 200 Med Rel / Med Rel 64 Sunday Finals: No Finals Check In Required Note that this session starts ½ hour earlier than Fri and Sat Warm-up: 4:00 - 4:50 PM Events: 5:00 PM Event Order: 43 thru 64 Fastest seeded heats of relays swim in Finals Fastest seeded heats (Top 8) of events 59 and 60 (400 IM) swim in Finals