), as well as six ultra-marathons. Clearly having caught the running bug, what is it that Ramsay likes about it so much? "For me, running is one of the best ways to unwind. It’s a cliché but it really does clear your head. Sunday mornings are usually the best
by Metformin/exercise) and have that old dilemma about the dietary requirements of a distance runner (I’m doing the D33 Ultra in Aberdeen tomorrow) and balancing those needs with my diabetes, which often results in conflicting advice.My problem is that I find
sandwich.When eaten as a meal, your sandwich should provide a quarter of your calorie and nutritional needs. As a snack, your sandwich should provide a sixth of your needs. You may need two sandwiches (for a main meal) to make up your nutritional quota
Boosting your energy on the run has never been easier. With countless gels, drinks, chewy sweets and even an energy soup on the market, you'll have no trouble finding something to keep you fuelled to the end of even the longest ultra. For many of us
'.But despite all the hours of putting left after right, if you're not prepared to provide your body with the fuel it needs along the way to the finish line, you won't get there half as quickly as you'd planned. A race nutrition strategy is as important to your
ultra-marathon runner who completed the 54-mile Comrades Marathon seven times. At the time, he wrote three articles encouraging runners to drink more. Then a strange thing happened in the early 1980s. He started to receive calls from athletes and A
that recommend drinking as much as 800ml of fluid per hour to maintain your dehydration level at lower than two per cent when you're exercising, you're almost certainly drinking too much. Ultra-distance runner, Professor Tim Noakes, author of The Lore of Running
