How to make carb loading easier
I’ve written before about the importance of a good carb load before a marathon, including a few tips to help you consume higher than normal amounts of food. In this blog, we’ll cover this area in a little more detail….
Taper nutrition before carb loading
If you’re about to head into your marathon taper, you’ve essentially done everything that hard work can achieve before race day. Now it’s time to reduce the amount of training you do and prepare from a tactical and logistical perspective….
What should you eat and drink the morning of a marathon
After all the hard work in training and a well-executed taper, the final thing to do before you run across the starting line of your marathon is to eat and drink appropriately, but what can you do about these things…
The top 3 mistakes I see marathon runners make
Nobody’s perfect, myself included, and for all running is a “simple” sport, our performance is hugely influenced by a myriad of factors. Over the distance of a marathon, and with our self-imposed targets to achieve, these factors can cause enormous…
Desperate measures to get your marathon PB
As we all know, training doesn’t always go 100% to plan, it rarely does in fact, but if you were right on the cusp of marathon PB fitness before something cropped up to distract you, what can you do in…