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Racing well requires plenty of training and preparation. However, a case of the jitters can jeopardize your run, as can preparing the wrong way. Read on to find out some helpful tips to improve your races and stay safe. Pick Smart Pre-Race Food According to Active.com, "a runner's carbohydrate intake should increase to 70 to 80 percent of his/her total daily caloric intake." Try to avoid eating protein and fat, and eat food with a high-glycemic index that is easy to digest. The reason for this is, eating a meal with high GI allows for carbohydrates to get into your bloodstream faster. You should eat about four hours before the race, so that way your body can store the energy without burning it all before the race. Plan Your Training You'll have to pick a training plan before your race. The plan you pick will vary depending on how much you want to train, the length of the race, and how intense the workouts will be. Unfortunately, it can take casual runners week...

At the end of a tough, long night,Floyd Mayweather Jr.was left staring at a June 1 jail sentence and a boxing landscape that he seems to believe cannot deliver another quality opponent. The unbeaten 35-year-old champion late Saturday said he's leaning "80-20" toward retirement. "If it was my last fight, I gave them a bang," Mayweather (43-0) said after his unanimous-decision (118-110, 117-111, 117-111) triumph over Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto (37-3) at MGM Grand. "There's really no one for me to fight anymore." Well, there's Manny Pacquiao, but with the sides divided over money, ego and whatever else they can think up as leverage, who else is there? The obvious backup to Pacquiao seemed to beMexico's21-year-old Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (40-0-1), who dominated Pomona's Shane Mosley by unanimous decision Saturday. But Alvarez's promoter Richard Schaefer said after the fight he'd just booked the rising star an...