When I was swimming competitively, we'd always eat enormous amounts of spaghetti the evening before and then eat virtually nothing except maybe a fruit or few p

When I was swimming competitively, we'd always eat enormous amounts of spaghetti the evening before and then eat virtually nothing except maybe a fruit or few pieces of candy the morning of the meet. (As far as I know it's a total nonsense myth that eating food before swimming is dangerous. We frequently at large meals before practice and nobody ever cramped up and drowned. But from a performance standpoint in a race, having an empty stomach seemed beneficial.)