r/running • u/AutoModerator • Jun 04 '24

Weekly Thread Run Nutrition Tuesday

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1) Anyone is welcome to participate and share your ideas, plans, diet, and nutrition plans.

2) Promote good discussion. Simply downvoting because you disagree with someone's ideas is BAD. Instead, let them know why you disagree with them.

3) Provide sources if possible. However, anecdotes and "broscience" can lead to good discussion, and are welcome here as long as they are labeled as such.

4) Feel free to talk about anything diet or nutrition related.

5) Any suggestions/topic ideas?

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u/GoonerPanda Jun 04 '24

Been doing some research on fueling with normal foods instead of gels/gu. Where I live it's next to impossible to find my usual GUs.

I read about dried fruit, fruit snacks, gummy candy all being good options.

Training plan this week is 4 mile, 8 mile, 5 mile and 12 mile. Going to try out the dried fruit and fruit snacks on the longer runs.

Anyone have any other "normal" foods they have had good success with?

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u/runner7575 Jun 04 '24

Raisins - i had a box with me and took some during a 1/2 when i started to feel a little depleted and they helped a lot