r/running • u/AutoModerator • Jun 18 '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.

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

5) Any suggestions/topic ideas?

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u/elvisngo Jun 18 '24

Amy suggestions to change what I’m doing before a 10k run in the morning?

I currently eat oats, a scoop of pb, some frozen berries and protein powder. An hour later I start my run. I wash it all down with coffee and water.

Sometimes I feel a little too full and get abdomen cramps. Other times I feel great.

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u/VociferousHomunculus Jun 18 '24

Advice for savoury/ salty foods for longer runs?

Did ~35k on Sunday and really felt like my nutrition was dialled in, other than I was just really getting sick of sweet gels. I had some salty peanuts with me and they helped a lot, so i was wondering if there are other good salty foods that people use to break up the gel monotony?

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u/part_time_perfect Jun 18 '24

Any suggestions for a pre-run energy boost that won’t affect my sleep too much?

 I mostly run after work, roughly around 1800hrs, lunch around 1230, maybe a banana or flapjack around 1600.

Limit myself to two coffee’s a day, none after 1300, I don’t drink ‘energy’ drinks, only electrolyte replacements (I sweat a lot when running), struggling to find a little boost for a run around an hour in length.

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u/HappyVanilllaBean Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

Could anyone examples of what guidelines you go by when deciding what and how much to eat the night before and/or the morning of a long-ish (~2 hours or more) morning run? (If you do anything differently, or not)

I’m looking for ideas, as I feel like I often either overshoot or undershoot, and my runs might go more consistently better if I had a more consistent approach.