What breakfast for parkrun please?

[rookiemere]

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?

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 )

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

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!

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.