Breakfast cereal, such as Cheerios, Chex, Kix, or any relatively low-sugar, low-fiber option can be one of the best pre-race breakfasts. Add plant-based milk if you are sensitive at all to dairy. Sliced bananas, blueberries, peaches, or other berries make a good topping. You can also sprinkle a few nuts on top.
3 cups white rice: 160 grams carbohydrate. 1 medium sweet potato: 24g. 1 large white potato: 63g. 3 ounces plantain chips: 54g. 1 cup apple juice: 27g. 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup: 17g. In other words, you’re going to have to eat a lot of carb-dense food. It would be a lot of carb-dense food no matter how you were getting it – there
Lager: High in calories, it’s also an appetite stimulant. However, a low alcohol percentage should mean that one or two every now and then won’t do too much harm. High five. After missing a long run due to one too many drinks the night before, The Runner Beans decided to go dry until the Boston Marathon.
My pre-marathon prep is pretty refined now- and I say you can eat breakfast but only if you are awake 3-4 hours before start. The closer to start before you eat: the less you should take in. This is a set of marathon “lessons learned” - like you, my first marathon was about 3:30 but I have consistently been running 2:58 without focused
Downhill can be tricky on your quads, use a midfoot versus a heel strike (meaning, hit the ground with your midfoot) to avoid breaking after every stride. I decided that I could run this half marathon because it was downhill, but my colleague informed me that can be the most difficult part of a race because it can create quad strains.
Here’s a look at the pros and cons of eating breakfast before your run—and how you can fuel up without feeling sick. The Case for Eating Breakfast Let’s quickly recap the benefits of eating
A runner who eats dinner at 5:00 p.m. with no other evening snacking may find his legs a little heavy on the morning run due to depleted glycogen stores from the long fast. He may even wake with
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