Race day gets a lot of attention. What are you eating for breakfast? How are you fueling during the race and when should you start? Have you been hydrating enough? Here’s the thing—race day nutrition doesn’t start when the alarm clock goes off, or even with your “carb loading” pasta dinner two nights before. By that point, dozens of nutrition decisions should already have been made. Your fueling plan should already be familiar In last month’s blog post “Fueling is a Skill”,

When I started running, I couldn’t run for more than 0.1 mile at a time. We had a little lake near our house with a great walking path all the way around it, with markers every 0.1 mile. My dog, Jasmine, and I learned how to run by running a tenth, walking a tenth, and so forth. Before too long, we were running 0.2 mile and walking 0.1 mile. Eventually, we built all the way up to running a whole mile, and I vividly remember jumping up and down, cheering for the two of us when

Picture it: It’s Saturday afternoon. You knocked out your long run that morning, and you're feeling pretty good about yourself… but also ravenously hungry. You’re confused because you did have an energy gel during your run. Yet here you are, opening the pantry every five minutes like you’re hoping the snack fairy has finally shown up at your house. You keep telling yourself to “be good,” and then eventually you cave — grazing from pantry to fridge, beating yourself up with e