Hoping for some help and advice from any experienced runners.
For starters, i am not a great runner nor a big fan of it either. However, i am doing the Northallerton 10k a week on Sunday.
I have been out training 3 times a week and am getting close to my target of 55 minutes.
What is a sensible meal the evening before and what is a good breakfast/energy boost on the morning of the race? The race starts at 10am.
I don't do running, only for football and some other sports, but having known a fair bit about calories/ expenditure from Cycling, that's probably only going to burn 600-1000 calories, nowhere near the amount required for a break from the "norm". If I was doing an hour at threshold/ quite high intensity I wouldn't even really think about it, and wouldn't bother loading up pre the ride, as the body can store enough glycogen for an hour quite easily. For 1.5 hour rides I'd probably have something very light just before, to give it time to digest, or maybe a gel after 45 mins, and something more calorific for 2 hours plus.
If I was riding at 10am (early for me, for sport), I'd just take it easy the day before, eat 2500-3000 calories worth of food, and rely on my body's glycogen stores.
If you're running less than a hour, you're already pretty fit, even an hour is fit, so don't worry about it.
I'd just eat fairly normal, the night before, nothing likely to upset the stomach. If it was a competition, on the morning before I'd maybe a light breakfast at 6am, as for me it takes me about 4 hours to certainly feel "right" for sport, in most cases, maybe 2-3 hours if it's something lighter, but wouldn't risk <3 for an event, but would for training.
