TGIF!! We made it, fam!
What’s on for the weekend? Who’s running, racing, tapering, cycling, hiking, skiing, swimming, kayaking, baking, cat wrangling, staring into the void, …? Tell us all about it!
TGIF!! We made it, fam!
What’s on for the weekend? Who’s running, racing, tapering, cycling, hiking, skiing, swimming, kayaking, baking, cat wrangling, staring into the void, …? Tell us all about it!
I have an 8-mile run scheduled for Saturday. This isn’t the longest run ever heard of, but it’s the longest for me in probably 10-15 years. The bigger part is really this is gonna be the first run much over an hour (have run a couple 7-7.5 mile runs, ended up being slightly over an hour, but not substantially) so I am actually gonna dip my toes in the water as far as water/food during the run. I could probably make it alright without, more wanting to see how my stomach agrees with some food. This is the first time at any distance I have even though about nutrition during a run. We shall see how it goes.
Experimenting with running fuel can be an adventure. What type of fuel are you going to start with? I hope it goes well!
Not a clue lol. Honestly probably gonna grab some small, individual packaged thing of candy (just because we have some left over from Halloween). Probably not “the best” choice, but it’s easy enough shove in my pocket with minimal mess, and it has some simple sugar/not a ton of fat or protein. I will worry about getting something more purposeful after I find out I’m not just gonna puke everything 2 minutes after eating it lol.
Candy is legit! I have a hard time with gels and tend to do candy and bits of real food. For candy, I highly recommend sour gummy worms and Swedish fish :p But really any simple sugar will help!
No Swedish fish lol, but I did have some random Skittles and one last thing of gummy snacks lol.
First point I noticed: I have had a deviated septum for I don’t even know how long, never really cared about it. It became WAY more evident as I was attempting to mouth breath like a champ and eat candy simultaneously lol. Probably good that no one was recording this debacle lol.
Second point: I am sure it would be more evident during significantly longer runs. I didn’t have any sort of stomach issues, but also didn’t notice any real “energy” from eating some sugar. Are the first little pack of Skittles around 40 minutes, the gummy snacks at about 1:00 (purposely slowed down a bit around mile 4-5 so I would even have some time after the second snack). I dunno, I didn’t notice it “helped”, but I think it’s also fairly short/slow to really “need” any sort of food during the run. But happy to find I didn’t have any major stomach/gut issues after eating something. Maybe I will look at more “performance”/grown up options as opposed to random candy next time lol.