I really, really wish I’d gotten more focused on race-day nutrition earlier in my long-course career. It’s been a long road of trial and error for me, as it is for most people, and I’m still working at it. What most people don’t realize is that nutrition is by far the biggest factor to your race day success. I’m a slow learner and didn’t really understand this fully until about my 4th Ironman. Hopefully I can save you some of that trouble. Ironman racing is a different ballgame than other distances because of two things. First,...