Thank you for this post! It’s definitely not talked about enough. I’m training for my second marathon, and after consulting with a nutritionist, I’ve come to realize that my fatigue wasn’t caused by low iron levels, as I had suspected; I simply wasn’t eating enough. The available information usually guides us on what to eat, but there’s still a gap when it comes to specifying the amount we should be consuming during training.
Especially with marathon training. It's so easy to under-eat. I wish that we'd focus more on that basic need—eat enough—versus all the bells and whistles of different diets and ways to eat, if that makes sense.
EYES WIDE OPEN!! thank you!
I also want to say that "race day weight"; "training weight" was ingrained in my IM training. SO damaging ; probably more damaging than I know.
Right?! So much damage in that language and so much more.
Thank you for this post! It’s definitely not talked about enough. I’m training for my second marathon, and after consulting with a nutritionist, I’ve come to realize that my fatigue wasn’t caused by low iron levels, as I had suspected; I simply wasn’t eating enough. The available information usually guides us on what to eat, but there’s still a gap when it comes to specifying the amount we should be consuming during training.
Especially with marathon training. It's so easy to under-eat. I wish that we'd focus more on that basic need—eat enough—versus all the bells and whistles of different diets and ways to eat, if that makes sense.
Absolutely!