What To Eat and When Before You Run | A Guide To Pre-Run Fuelling

I wake up around 5:30 am and have breakfast. usually I have oatmeal with fruit and honey, or I have toast with peanut butter and a banana. And wait 30 minutes to an hour before running.

Train mostly fasted. Black Coffee. Periodically train fully topped up for higher intensity sessions when training for a race. I love this vid. I wish I saw this years ago, however been doing most of this, but as a cyclist since last year.lost 60 lbs doing fasted workouts in 5 months.

Something about her saying the word porridge really made me smile. Idk if it was the accent or because I haven’t heard the word since reading children’s books haha

For me its overnight oatmeal with few raisins and a little butter in, a teaspoon of raw honey and black coffee. Wait 30 minutes to one hour then run. The coffee really helps, you really need to do number 2 before a run.

Lunch run is simple: run easy, eat after, have a nice rest of the day.

Finally, a video that makes sense to ME. Highly educational! Thanks for making this video. Keeping running, y’all!

I like your videos, before watching them! Thanks for giving us good content!

I work from 3am-10am and get home by 10:30 or so. I usually eat a 1000 calorie breakfast consisting of eggs, bagel, peanut butter, olive oil, avocado and some samosas or muffin with coffee. Wait one hour, and i can run no problem. In fact, ill still feel starving an hour later :)

Morning, just run! Evening, 1,5 to 2 hours after dinner. Sometimes right after to get the stomach just to the food and running (but sometimes not fun at all)

I’m a first thing in the morning kind of workout person. But that does make eating before hand difficult. So I usually workout in a fasted state. But for long or intense workouts I’ve been trying to do: fruit leather or 1/2 a banana or a smoothie pouch. I’m still figuring it out though and hoping to find the right pre-race fuel in the process.

Great video. Super informative and well thought out. Cheers:-)

I actually grind the dry oatmeal in a blender into a ground oatmeal (powder) and have it in a whey protein shake with natural almond milk. 50g-100g, then can run within 30 mins, if it were overnight oats I'd wait an hour. Hot oatmeal would probably take 2 hours as it's like stodgy glue. If it's a 30 min jog though I'll happily go fasted. Just have to eat low GI the night before.

"you're not drunk enough" 😂7:20

Coffee for me with a slice of bread with strawberry jam - works for me like a charm!

Generally speaking I am not a morning person eater. Even on normal days I usually don't develop an appetite till 11 - 12 o'clock. My usual morning routine only involves a cup of strong tea. As for early morning race days with added stress: I dissolve all my gels in water + a Snickers bar.

Thanks for this :)

A fork-mashed banana with a spoonfull of honey on a slice of bread, an hour before my morning long runs is what i eat usually. Through the runs, I drink adequately , take care of my sodium and potassium through electrolyte drinks instead of water as i sweat a lot and finally eat or drink around 200kcals every 1,5 hours. Usually I start with an energy drink such as "4Move" and later on i eat bars. I prefer "Nature Valley Oats & Honey" witch digest easily and have plenty of sodium. No stomach problems, no side-stitches, no dehydration. If the run is less than 60-90 minutes i run fasted with just a 0 Calorie electrolyte drink and plenty of water throughout the run but i do carry a gel, just in case I overestimated myself.. For interval training sometimes I drink an energy drink before if I did not have a good breakfast. Sometimes if i'm in a harry and i'm fasted, or feel that need some energy, i just eat a full spoon of honey before leaving home. That's all my wisdom. Bear in mind that I run at mornings and i do not drink coffee. After the runs I go to the gym twice per week and after gym is lunchtime so i don't eat anything in between activities, except sometimes a small piece of dark choc or a banana, plus plenty of water or more electrolytes if it was hot and sweaty. I really enjoy your videos, well made and to the point. Keep up the good work! Thanks. P.S. Wow! i really wanted to share...

Nice vid and content but for me it's really down to what works best for you. I usually train in the morning and just have black coffee and hour before I head out, that's for runs 1hr and below. Anything over, I usually have a banana about 30 mins after the coffee

I usually do a 16h fasting from 10 pm to 2 pm and then i have a complete lunch (carbs proteins veggies fruit) and then at 7:30/8pm i go for my run and then i have dinner at 9:30pm. But i was trying to change the run time to around 9/10 am.. trying to figure out how to do that..

Very informative.Thank you. I usually drink 1 cup of drip coffee. It mobilizes the fat to be used in zone 3. After, 3 expresso as a reward.