Has anyone tried fasting? How did it go, and did you keep running during that time?

Fasting is unhealthy. You should eat a few meals a day.

Fasting is worthless.

A 24 hour fast is perfect. Consider donating the money that would be spent on food to a local charity. This won't help your running, but it will help your compassion. I fast most Sundays (the day I don't run). I advise the practice, but I think it is more of a religion thing than running thing.

I don't run when I fast

I also don't run fast

As soon as your body adjusts to a fast you will feel fine, maybe even better than you do when eating.

Rather than a pure fast it helps to eat a tiny amount of nutrient dense food to start the engine for the day (small handful of almonds etc. with black coffee) and then just water for the rest of the day.

Did you do this while running?

Yesterday (when I fasted all day) I went for an easy run of a few miles and felt fine, but I had also eaten a lot the day before.

I actually don't feel hungry right now (almost at 36 hours) and am planning to go for an easy run.

So I went for my run (easy 5 miles).. still not hungry

Keep fasting and let us know your progress next week.

bump... have been fasting 48 hours now, still don't really feel hungry, also don't really notice lack of energy (have been going about day to day things like normal).

Going to see how long I can do this - at first sign of intense hunger or lots of fatigue I will stop. Going to try another easy 5 miler tomorrow and then see how I feel.

It feels really nice to not be preoccupied with food.

Hate to tell you but I dont think anyone cares.

I do. Fasting is a good way to make your body function in emergency situations.

Try to keep it up for about five days. You will l lose a lot of weight and feel much lighter on your feet. . V02 will skyrocket and we all know how important that is.

I ran a lot while fasting. Your body has way more energy storage capacity than the gels very 10 minutes crowd believes.

I've tried a form of intermittent fasting in which each day consisted of a 6-8 hour feeding window and 16-18 hours of fasting. I really liked the results but it was difficult to maintain because I like to drink beer and eat whenever on the weekends.

Went on a 5 mile run this morning (fasting 60 hours now).

Best run I had in a while in terms of speed actually, felt much lighter on my feet! Yesterday my legs had felt heavy and lethargic. But I could tell I was running on empty and could feel it around 3-4 miles in. I toughed it out for another mile (it was also a hot day so that may have played a role) but definitely had that depleted feeling.

I still don't feel hungry now though. Debating if I should break the fast today or break it tomorrow... also thinking about doing an easy 3 mile run in the evening (outside of this run I have been fine on energy) and I think 3 miles is fine, it's just past that mark that I feel the depletion harder.

question....... wrote:

I've been curious about the health benefits of fasting.. I've done some 24 hour fasts before and have currently been fasting around 36 hours. I feel like it also makes me more mindful and conscious of food. I have a bit of weight to lose but that isn't the first goal with fasting, but it does make me more conscious of food.

Has anyone tried extended day fasts? I will probably break my fast today as I plan on going for a run as well and I know running + fasting can be a bad idea (but these runs are short and easy).

why are you not eating? is there some reason you are doing this? Are you fat and trying to lose weight?

Yousa gonna bonk!

modified fast wrote:

I do. Fasting is a good way to make your body function in emergency situations.

Try to keep it up for about five days. You will l lose a lot of weight and feel much lighter on your feet. . V02 will skyrocket and we all know how important that is.

I ran a lot while fasting. Your body has way more energy storage capacity than the gels very 10 minutes crowd believes.

You never ran very fast though.

Ed Moses uses to fast while training, apparently.

A little bit is losing weight, but also to get more conscious about food... and it is also nice how resilient the human body is.

fasting = slowing