Carbohydrate mouth rinse to improve performance has been established for awhile but most of the research was done in a fasted state. Make sure you have had plenty of Carbs in the 24-48 hours before a race. I do all the research so you don’t have to. (thanks to Anne Guzman for posting this on her page, my time to do my daily digging into research has been limited lately.)

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