If you’re like most runners, you spend the final days before your marathon feasting on high-carbohydrate foods. But a good nutrition plan doesn’t end with that last plate of pasta the night before your race. Your pre-race breakfast is just

, before she’d eaten any breakfast. The star of the show, though, was Idrissa Kargbo. Idrissa’s passport has him as 22, but he isn’t completely sure about that, guessing his age at the end of the war as between 10 and 14. During the conflict, his family

marathon competitors should be doing runs of 12 miles plus.Personally I don’t take too much with me for long slow runs of less than 15 miles, I just make sure I have some fuel inside me from a sensible breakfast (cereals/toast) and am well hydrated