Question: Does any one know what the best food to eat be four a athletic event e.g. for people who just wanted to do one marifon.

Ali Hill answered on 11 Jun 2018:

Pasta’s really good for something to eat before. It gives you lost of slow-release energy. And chocolate milk is a great choice for after training – it gives your muscles the energy they need and the protein they need to help recover.

Marathon runners usually do something before they race called carb-loading, which is where they eat about double the amount of carbohydrates they’d normally do – this stocks their muscles up so they have plenty of energy for the race. It’s amazing the amount of food you have to eat – bread, pasta, cake. It’s loads of food!