: your calorie and carbohydrate intake needs to match your training energy output. However, as your training volume increases and then tapers, so should your food intake. Planning your pre-race diet needn't be a nutritional nightmare: here are 25 handy

to match your training energy output. However, as your training volume increases and then tapers, so should your food intake. Planning your pre-race diet needn't be a nutritional nightmare: here are 25 handy do's and don'ts to help get you started

and leading researcher at the University of Cape Town, is worried that runners are following out-dated hydration plans: "The reason why athletes drink too much is almost certainly due to hysteria attached to the supposed dangers that dehydration poses