Prerun snacks

Eating Equals Energy and Oatmeal Cookies for Breakfast

When I first decided to run longer distances, 10 miles or more back in 2009, the thought of eating something before these early morning runs never occurred to me. After all, I had been going to the gym for years and running 5 miles a couple of hours before having any kind of food. I remember my first attempt at 12 miles on a stomach full of NOTHING.  An epic failure.  I was very careful working myself up to running that distance without getting injured although paid no attention to an equally important aspect of endurance which is nutrition.  Now, [...]

By |2015-04-08T15:17:59-04:00April 8, 2015|Health and Nutrition|2 Comments

Running Mistake and Picnic Pasta with Pine Nuts

My running speed sessions typically fall on a Tuesday and early in the morning as all my training runs typically do.  If you keep up with good training habits, you know that eating just a little something about 30 to 60 minutes before heading out is a healthy habit.  This is especially important if running for over an hour, in hot weather, AND doing a hard workout. Tuesday morning’s tempo run was ASTRONOMICALLY tough. Why? I ran for 65 minutes on 1/2 a cup of water and it was hot with high humidity. Bad, bad, bad. Talking more about Pre [...]

By |2013-07-03T14:31:46-04:00July 2, 2013|Quick Meals|4 Comments
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