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What Not To Eat Pre-Rally
[ October 7th, 2008 ] By: Charles Smith Posted in » Tips and Tricks

Having encountered food poisoning this weekend, you cannot be too careful about the food you eat before a rally. Why let something you eat end your race weekend?

Things to watch out for:

• Uncooked Eggs - They are more prevalent than you think. Some examples include Caesar Salad and Hollandaise sauce. Uncooked eggs can get quite dangerous.
• Room Temperature Meat - Meat is delicious and bacteria also think it is delicious. Room temperature meats go bad much faster than refridgerated meat (unless they’re cured…beef jerky for example). 
• Unwashed Fruit - Certain pesticides can cause some major intenstinal drama. There is a simple solution to this one though: wash the fruit!
• Names You Cannot Pronounce - Exotic foods, especially ones you’ve never had, have a much better chance of not being prepared correctly and causing some pain to you. 

 By the time you’re of age to race you should know what sits well with you in general, so you may not want to stray far from the list of foods you know. But there are some good rules to follow: eat only hot foods and wash fruit yourself… maybe then you won’t end up sick on race day.