Good nutrition can make the difference between surviving a race and performing at your best. Explore advice on fuelling your training, race-day nutrition, hydration, carbohydrate loading, recovery meals and practical strategies to help you stay energised throughout your half marathon journey.
Training determines much of what you are capable of on half marathon race day. But even the best training programme can be undermined by a nutrition strategy that has never been practised. Your half marathon nutrition plan should not begin at breakfast on race morning. It should begin weeks beforehand, during your training. You need…
You can have the fitness. You can have the perfect pacing strategy. You can arrive at the start line rested, confident and ready to run your best half marathon. But if your stomach doesn’t tolerate the fuel you’re putting into it, your race can unravel surprisingly quickly. Nausea, bloating, stomach cramps or an urgent search…