Charles-Barclay said it took about a year for her small intestine to heal after making the necessary changes to her diet.<\/p>\n
She is now fuelled by entirely gluten-free options.<\/p>\n
“Three days out from racing I will start to carb-load with multiple bowls of rice, chicken and boiled eggs a day,” she said.<\/p>\n
“During the race, I use gluten-free gels. I aim to consume up to 120 grams of carbohydrates per hour during an Ironman.<\/p>\n
“I add additional electrolytes from salt tablets to my water bottles and I get my extra energy during racing and training from Red Bull.”<\/p>\n
She is in contention to win the T100 Triathlon World Championship at the final race of the season in Qatar on Friday, 12 December.<\/p>\n
Going into that race, Charles-Barclay, Canada’s Julie Derron and fellow Briton Katie Waugh sit within nine points of each other on the leaderboard. Charles-Barclay is third in the standings, seeking a big final performance.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be hot, it’s going to be tough, but it’s going to be a really exciting race,” she said.<\/p>\n
But at least now she knows she how she needs to fuel, even if she has to take a mind-over-matter approach to some aspects.<\/p>\n
“I have to eat rice multiple times a day for like three or four days going into the race,” she said.<\/p>\n
“By the time I get there, I don’t want to see rice again for a while!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles-Barclay said it took about a year for her small intestine to heal after making the necessary changes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-184570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}