[going hot]

My money would be on the guy who ate carbs over the guy who ate nothing or the guy who ate sugar

You could go one step further...

Suppose one contestant ate pasta for a month, and the other ate mostly meat and a small salad for a month, then both loaded up with pasta the night before a marathon?

Different from the requirements of a hundred yard dash.

[allmendream]

Well I didn't want to confuse the issue any more than it already is.

My point is that many athletes “carbo load” - I know a pasta dinner before a Crew match was a regular occurrence during my college athletic days. Weather efficacious or not according to the latest study - it had a sound biochemical basis that “sugar loading” would not.

Thus I attempted to illustrate a fundamental difference between dietary intake of carbs and dietary intake of sugars.