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Grouse are you my plane wreck hunting friend JD under a different name
What im intersted in is-what distance do you need to eat food or take calories of any kind?
Is it marathon distance?
Has anyone on this forum ever run a marathon and taken nothing but water?
Would this be considered normal practice?
If it is normal practise than would 30 miles be too far?
Or is it a time thing?
Is say 3 hours the magic time time limit?
Or if i run for 3 hours at avery slow pace-surely i wont need anything? On the other hand if i were to run at my limit for 3 hours would i need the energy boost?
Do you see where im trying to go with this?
Can anybody definately say at what stage,time or mileage wise you must definately take some energy onboard?
Confused.
I think it was Roadrunner who may have said. (dont kill me if Im wrong). That after an hours running he takes a isotonic drink on board to cover him for the next half hour.
I sometimes tend to munch my whole way around a long race. Dont know whether that helps or not.
Im interested in what Calf has said on the todays training thread, about running himself into a decent bonk. Just to get his body used to burning fat as fuel.
I think i may be a bit dependent on lucozades and food. I'm a right gutsy bas**rd on long runs.
Jamie
I certainly am after reading that .
My longest regular training runs are between 2 and 2 1/2 hours with the occasional 3 hour outing and I never take anything to eat or drink. Those runs are usually done first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I've never been able to eat while running as it just makes me feel sick. 90 minutes is about my racing limit without some water or weak isotonic drink.
I run up to two hours once a week, and up to three if planning a long race.
I never eat while training (unless I am particularly hungover).
But, if a race is going to be more than two hours, then I start eating jelly babies from half an hour onwards.
I suggest you consider this advice at the same time as looking at my spectacularly poor race results. This will inevitably lead you to eating chips on training runs, and slaughtering small animals while racing.
I hope this helps, but somehow I doubt it.