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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
No fruit. Today it was an omelette and then a bowl of breakfast cereal. I always leave an hour after eating before running, and I always make sure I go to the toilet before setting off. I like to have something to eat about an hour or two before a run so I've got some energy to run with.
I've never actually been caught short while out running, but I usually need to go when I've got in. More important to me is that I often get stomach pains, like trapped wind, and these pains can seriously harm my performance. It's been a long time since I hit my limit in terms of cardiovascular fitness. These days a run always ends because I'm in too much pain, usually abdominal. |
I'm 90% sure it's the milk that's the problem. It took me a while to figure this out for myself. If I have anything more than about 50mL of milk within 3-4 hours of exercise, it's an instant stitch. While I'm not lactose intolerant in any sort of way (and I'm sure you're not either), I think it's quite a hard thing to digest.
I think that if you experiment, you'll also find that the amount you eat is quite important. When I used to run competitively, I'd eat precisely one and a half pieces of toast before races, because anything either side didn't work for me.
Just now, I took two weeks off running because I was going out too much and got sick. I've now lost what small fitness I'd gained. I'm entered in a half marathon in six weeks, and I can barely do ten kilometres comfortably. 
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