Everything I ate Hiking and Running in the Mountains for 10 hours
Here’s everything I ate on an all-day running and hiking adventure through the White Mountains last week.
I tried to put this on a timeline, quickly, that became too difficult to recall when I ate everything. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich, for example, I ate much earlier than expected. I had half of it on the Franconia Ridge in the morning, around 7:30am, and I know I ate the other half, but I cannot remember when into the run it was. Instead, here’s just a list of everything as it came to me, along with its caloric content, and macronutrient breakdown.
This was my first big mountain day using liquid calories. I’ve supplemented with them before during long efforts, but for this day I had a bottle with two scoops going at all times. It really helped me boost my total calories up and was easy to drink and tasty too.
One last note, the eggs and bagel were in the morning, about 90 minutes before I started.
Egg Bites (eggs, cottage cheese, turkey bacon, cheese): 340 calories, 6g carb, 18g fat, 36g protein
Cinnamon Raisin Bagel: (half) 140 calories, 29g carbs, .5g fat, 5g protein
Momentous Fuel: 7 scoops throughout the day - 770 calories, 196g carbs
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich:
Peanut butter - 4 tablespoons 380 calories,14g carbs, 32g fat, 16g protein
Jelly - 4 tablespoons 100 calories, 34g carbs, 0g fat, 0g protein
Dave’s Killer White Bread: two slices: 220 calories, 42g carbs, 4g fat, 6g protein
Nature’s Bakery Fig Bars: 3 total, 165 calories, 30g carbs, 4g fat, 1.5g protein
Snickers (share size): 420 calories, 60g carbs, 18g fat, 6g protein
Scratch Energy Chews: 2 packets, 380 calories 95g carbs, 0g fat, 0g protein
Dried mango: 1 bag, 510 calories, 125g carbs, 2g fat, 4g protein
Peanut MnM’s: 1oz, 17g carbs, 8g fat, 3g protein
Totals:
3667 calories
641g carbohydrates
90g fat
80g protein
After the run, I ate 3 cheeseburgers, and a lot of salt and vinegar chips, along with some cookies and watermelon.
In years past, I probably would have done this with half the total calories, just because I thought needing food was inconvenient and if you were trained enough you could do it on less. That’s obviously not the case, and on this day I felt strong, had energy and handled digesting all of this without issue. Thanks for reading!
Justin Miner
@justinminergain