05/02/2025
If you really want to nail your race, you have to have a strategy for how you’re going to feed yourself for max performance. This is especially true if you’ll be running for longer periods of time (2+ hours).
It’s not just carb-loading (although that is important), it’s also the content of the food, the timing of eating it, and knowing how your body will respond to it.
Check out these do’s and don’ts for specific advice on eating before race day.
To everyone running the Flying Pig races this weekend: good luck!
12/03/2024
Successful training is not just about how hard you can train, but it’s about how well you can recover from that training. It’s important to keep this in mind as 2024 ends and we naturally begin thinking about goals for 2025.
You want to increase your weekly running mileage so you can shave a couple more minutes off of your half marathon personal best. Or maybe you want to start strength training or cross training to supplement your running. These are great ideas! But what are you going to do on the other side of the coin to recover from this increased amount of stress on your body? Will you aim to get 15-30 minutes more of sleep each night? Or maybe increase your protein intake?
One of my college track coaches would constantly tell us, “train hard, recover hard.” I wish I had taken his advice more seriously when I was running in college. Many people are willing to train harder to achieve increasingly faster race goals. But fewer people consistently commit themselves to what happens outside of the training runs. I didn’t take recovery seriously during my collegiate track career and saw the consequences of it.
Don’t let that be you! Let’s work together to do better in 2025.
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