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 […]

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 […]

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 […]