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What breakfast for parkrun please?

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 17:38

Apologies if this has been done in the parkrun threads.

I need to leave the house at 8.45 ideally to get to our local parkrun
and invariably I end up having breakfast a bit too late. This morning DH kindly cooked me my favourite of poached egg on toast with smoked salmon, but as I wolfed it down at about 8.40, I ended up feeling a bit sick on the run. I'm wondering if I should cut back to a banana if I don't wake up early enough to have brekkie at 8.

So parkrunners and general 5kers - what's your breakfast of choice and what time do you eat beforehand?

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rookiemere · 04/11/2015 16:19

Good point meglet. I drive there - 10 miles away - so not much chance to burn off breakfast.
DS seems less affected, but then he usually has bran flakes.

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megletthesecond · 04/11/2015 10:15

I suspect it may also make a difference whether you walk or drive to parkrun. We walk so by 9am our 7:30 breakfast has gone down and been partly walked off.

TriJo · 04/11/2015 10:10

Just enough breakfast to perform! A banana and a coffee is usually fine for me for an early morning 5-10km run/race and I'll have a decent meal afterwards.

chutneypig · 04/11/2015 06:46

I feel your pain with DS rookie. My eight year old is also sub 25 but fortunately usually runs with his dad. Last time he ran with me he spent the entire time looking at his watch. Very off putting Grin.

I'm quite happy to do parkrun on coffee alone and can do up to 10k early. The DC quite often only have a glass of milk before. DS learnt his lesson on stitch when he insisted a crumpet was ideal pre run food.

I have got a recipe for an oat based smoothie that works well at any point before we leave, it's subtantial but doesn't sit too heavily. Or yogurt and honey. Otherwise most of us aim for toast and peanut butter about seven and maybe a banana just as we leave, 8.25 ish.

steppemum · 02/11/2015 23:14

Oh I hadn't realised a stitch could be due to breakfast!

I have a banana, maybe toast, at about 8 am for a 9am run.
Don't usually get a stitch.

Oh and tea!

cheapandcheerful · 02/11/2015 23:07

Anything more than a coffee and one bite of a banana gives me a stitch.

Pippioddstocking · 02/11/2015 23:04

Coffee only unless it's more than a 2 hr run, then I'll have a yoghurt also.
Anything other than coffee on a park run and I would puke it all up ! ( I do make it my fastest run of the week though )

clary · 31/10/2015 18:59

Impressive by yr DS rookie! My DS is 12 thank goodness so he can run on his own, which is just as well as he is about 5 mins faster than me.

He really wants to win Hmm so funny watching him (he is small for his age) chasing down all these big young men Grin

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 18:53

Ideally I need to shave off about 8 mins so I can match DS's sub 25 mins.

He's only 9 so he's not allowed to run on his own, but I'm too slow so he can only do it when we can borrow other parents or friends to run with him.

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lastqueenofscotland · 31/10/2015 18:53

I don't eat breakfast before running. If I'm running 16 miles plus or racing half marathons I'll have a flapjack and take a sports drink and a handful if jelly babies with me to keep me going. If I eat more than a mouthful id be sick. I need to leave about 5 hours between eating and running.

cashewnutty · 31/10/2015 18:51

I am only reporting what DH just told me. Grin

cashewnutty · 31/10/2015 18:50

rookie I get that. Running is so not my thing!

Redcrayons · 31/10/2015 18:50

Cashew nutty - so all round to yours for breakie next Saturday then?

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 18:47

If only breakfast was the only determining factor cashewnutty Grin

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 31/10/2015 18:47

A banana - an hour earlier

Altbough I was disappointly slow today - no pb, boo. A

cashewnutty · 31/10/2015 18:46

DH's breakfast must be good. He was 12th out of 185 runners - and he is 52!

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 18:45

This website www.parkrun.org.uk/ may change your life ImperialBlether.
Sadly not my waistline or my weight - but makes Saturday just that little bit more special and DS has done a few as well - but he's too fast for me now so we need someone else to run with him as under 11.

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ImperialBlether · 31/10/2015 18:42

What is parkrun?

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 18:40

We have good loos at our parkrun clary, which does help if I've made a less than ideal breakfast choice or rushed out too quickly from the house Blush.

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clary · 31/10/2015 18:36

I don't usually eat breakfast at all, but if I am running then I do.

If it's (say) a 10k starting at 10am, I'll get up early and eat scrambled eggs and a big cup of herbal tea at about 7am.

For parkrun at 9am, I'll usually force down a banana and a drink about 7.30 if poss. I need to make sure I don't need the loo on the run IYKWIM.

Doing a muddy cross country tomorrow and need to leave about 9am so it's early up and protein + carbs :)

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 18:33

Actually thinking about it funnily enough I do metafit on Friday at 9.00 and have my poached egg, smoked salmon ( it's only a wee bit) combo at 7.40 and usually feel ok at that.

I do work a lot harder at parkrun though.

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MrsMook · 31/10/2015 18:29

A banana and a bit of water. Possibly a sugary drink instead. I'm not great on empty, but have a very fussy digestive system.

I'm normally at a circuits class rather than Parkrun at that time slot, and too much water gets me rushing to the loo repeatedly from all the jolting around.

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rookiemere · 31/10/2015 18:26

It wasn't 20 mins before the run softkitty - it starts at 9.30 so it was 50 mins before, but still probably too close.

Megle - DH and DS once scoffed huge burgers 15 mins before a 2.5k children's run, then blamed their stiches on me forcing them to drink too much water because it was an extremely hot day Hmm.

Ok so porridge if I manage to eat it before 8.30 or banana if I don't sounds like the way to go, as I really don't fancy getting up for 7.30 at the weekend.

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thenightsky · 31/10/2015 18:21

I rarely eat breakfast before Parkrun. Cup of tea at 8am and out of the house at 8.25.

It's only 5k. Take a banana for after the run if you really can't last til you get home.

I only eat breakfast if it's a 10k or more and even then it has to be 2 hours before the run starts or it's coming up in my throat as I run.

cashewnutty · 31/10/2015 18:18

DH gets up early and eats 2 hours before Parkrun. He has muesli and fruit. His times are great!

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