Is this a good preworkout meal?

[WouldLoveTo]

Originally Posted by Chas863

When I mentioned a marathon, I was thinking of something like the Boston Marathon which is about 26 miles and takes about 2 1/2 hours for the winner, and a bit longer for everyone else. It sounds like your friends use a marathon as a good excuse for an all day party... or perhaps several days.

Well no, it sounds like hunter's friends do ultras, which are anything above 26.2 miles and the longer the better Food requirements are way different for those. I do endurance cycling which is the same mindset. We train ourselves to eat on the move because you absolutely need nourishment when you're doing long distance.

I've done a few half marathons and may have a gel or two during them. That's only 100-300 calories total though.

OP - when I ride in the morning, I go out on an empty stomach. I bring a gel flask with me, and fluids of course. Sometimes a stroopwaffle. Often times I will finish my ride and may have only had a swig of gu. Sometimes I am halfway home and suddenly starving. If usually start to get hungry around the 3 hour mark.

Personally I would not be able to eat fruit before a workout, and usually not during either. I do like a fruit smoothie afterwards in the heat of the summer though.

When I am training for an event, I may do some workouts with a bit of food prior, to get my stomach used to it, but I find eating 2-3 hours before is usually good enough.

[blueherons]

Originally Posted by FrankAce

Plain Fayge yogurt and fruit salad:







I'm wondering if this is too much sugar?


I'm trying to shred/lead up. So I'm watching my calories as well.

If you want to shred, you should be doing fasting cardio. Cardio on an empty stomach.

You need to be living on eggs, tuna, and green beans.

Weight lifting in the evening, cardio first thing in the AM.

NO SUGAR!

Your meal is something out of a 1980s diet book.

[blueherons]

Originally Posted by Chas863

I get it from stored energy. How do you think people do marathons that last for hours? Do you think they stop every 30-40 minutes to have a meal?

I've run 23 marathons and we do gel packs along the way. One about every hour and I run a 5 hour marathon.

Originally Posted by hunterseat

My ultra marathon friends stop all the time! And they eat while they run. They're all crazy and many of them are in their 70s.

Yes, everyone stops and walks. When Frank Shorter set the world marathon record, he stopped and walked.

Marathoners for the most part have crap eating habits, drink a lot of beer, and party like hell.

I set my own personal marathon record after a night of partying in New Orleans.