If you’ve ever been at Mile 9 or 10 of a half-marathon and felt like someone suddenly poured concrete into your leggings, you’ve met “The Wall.” In the running world, we’re told the wall is a marathon problem. We’re told it’s something that happens at Mile 20. But I’m here to tell you the honest […]

There is a common misconception in the running world that I used to believe myself: You don’t need to fuel for a half-marathon. I used to think that fuelling was a “marathon-only” problem and that for 13.1 miles, you could just tough it out. Due to that thinking, I entered my half-marathon without a fuelling […]

When to take gels while running is one of the most common questions I get as a nutritionist for runners. There is so much confusion around fuelling your runs. When to take gels, if you should take gels, when you actually need them—there are just so many questions. Generally, you will have heard the “rules”: […]

There is so much anxiety and confusion that runners face when it comes to carb loading before a marathon. With a lot of misinformation out there, I hear a lot of concerns from runners. Concerns like: All of these are valid concerns. This blog post will address all of them. Carb loading for a marathon […]

Knowing what to eat and how to fuel your body during marathon training can be so difficult. There is so much information out there, eat carbs, don’t eat carbs, you need x amount of protein, you can fuel with just fat balls. And let’s not forget the conflicting messages around weight and body composition, with […]

Ever experienced that moment when you’ve done your run earlier in the day, you’re back home relaxing and then bam, suddenly you are starving and want to eat everything in sight? Then you wake up the following morning, and that feeling is still there? This is actually a really common thing for runners to experience. […]

How to fuel a long run is a question I get asked all the time as a runner’s nutrition coach, or a variation of it at least. But before we jump in let’s address why fuelling a run is essential. Assuming our muscles are fully stocked with carbohydrates, in the form of glycogen, we have […]

You’ve heard that you need to fuel your runs but when? How much? What do you fuel with? These questions plus more are going to be what we answer today. Our body only has a finite amount of carbohydrates stored within the body in the form of glycogen. Although the body has enough fat to […]

One of the questions I see or get asked all the time as a nutrition coach is what you should eat before a run. When we go for a run our body relies on the stored glycogen within our muscles and liver to provide the energy we need. Without this stored energy our bodies would […]

So you’ve been running and eating all the ‘right’ foods but still aren’t losing weight? I understand—you’re frustrated, annoyed, and thinking about giving up. There will be a reason you aren’t losing weight, lets run through some things to try and figure out why. We’re going to explore 10 of the top reasons I see […]