Fridays Are For One Question

Tomorrow morning, I’m going to join about 50,000 other folks to run in the Country Music Half Marathon and Marathon through the streets of Nashville. Just to be clear, I’ll be in the “half” section.

There seems to be some question in scholarly circles right now about the appropriate way to eat before such a race. In years past, it was thought that the night before you go out and pound some lasagna or spaghetti, but now I’m hearing more and more that you should eat light the night before; your heavy meal should actually be the night before the night before.

Whatever.

But I’m curious. Let’s think hard about today’s question, because it’s not so much about what you should eat, but what you shouldn’t:

“What would be the worst possible meal for you to eat the night before running a marathon?”