What are you planning to eat for breakfast on the morning of the 17th? I'm staying at someone else's house the night before (they live 10 mins walk from the start so it seems like the polite thing to do!) so difficult to have my usual wierdy beardy porridge / ground seeds / flax oil combination. As an experiment, I did my longest run (20 miles) on poached egg on toast which seemed to do the trick. How about you?? Beans on toast has also been recommended to me, but bit nervous about running on gas...
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Mrs M, why not take your wierdy beardy porridge / ground seeds / flax oil combination to your friend's house?
As to why I don't take breakfast with me, I guess on one level I'd just find my breakfast ritual a bit embarrassing and awkward to carry (certain oats, certain milk, certain dried fruit etc etc - would use up practically my entire tupperware collection which I'd then have to put on the Flora lorry!) but also if truth be told now the weather's warming up I'm sometimes finding it lies a little too heavy on the (already heavy enough) tum. Trying to find something that is nice and straightforward to prepare on the morning. Will do my 2 hours tomorrow on poached eggs on toast again to see if that really does work!
Good luck everyone!
Nik x
For Porridge & toast
Good luck everyone
I usually have porridge with pumkin linseed& sunflower seeds, rasins, and maple syrup a few hours before a long run.
If it feels like it my lay heavy, or I am running earlier than usual I turn it into a musli, have a little less of everything and ommit the maple syrup.
Don't forget the Imodium Plus! although if you haven't tried them by now it may be a little late.
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Good speed all x
Good luck to all and anyone running London Marathon for the first time enjoy the experience.
jezza
I prefer croissants with a bit of jam myself and a couple of immodiums .
A roadside poo tends to slow me down somewhat and offends the Londoners aparently
Have to say when I did the Amsterdam Half Marathon, I got loads of really nice porridge sachets - still eating them now I got so many.
Now that would be a good freebie in the bag at the end of the race.