I ran cross country in high school(10 years ago). I stopped running when I went to college. Now, I am looking to start training for a marathon.
When I ran in high school, I never ate properly. I ate lots of carbs and I am amazed at how successful I was regardless of my poor diet. I usually ran a 5K in about 16:40-17:00. During season my team would average around 8 or 9 miles everyday at a minimum of 7 minute mile pace.
Now onto my questions. Now that I am getting back into training, what does everyone do for their diet. I imagine that protein certainly couldn't hurt. How about things like creatine and other supplements? My everyday diet is already much better than it was in high school.
My goal is to eventually run the boston marathon. I am a long ways off, my first day of training was yesterday where I ran 2 miles at a slow 8 minute mile pace and that was pretty rough but my legs are even sore today so I am happy about that.
When I ran in high school, I never ate properly. I ate lots of carbs and I am amazed at how successful I was regardless of my poor diet. I usually ran a 5K in about 16:40-17:00. During season my team would average around 8 or 9 miles everyday at a minimum of 7 minute mile pace.
Now onto my questions. Now that I am getting back into training, what does everyone do for their diet. I imagine that protein certainly couldn't hurt. How about things like creatine and other supplements? My everyday diet is already much better than it was in high school.
My goal is to eventually run the boston marathon. I am a long ways off, my first day of training was yesterday where I ran 2 miles at a slow 8 minute mile pace and that was pretty rough but my legs are even sore today so I am happy about that.