Any need to eat before a 1 p.m. 10k?

If you don't eat anything you will totally blow up. I would recommend atleast some sort of a breakfast

Dude, you'll need to eat something or you will feel terrible on the starting line.

Eat something fairly substantial (but not problematic) for breakfast around 9am and then have something like bananas to munch on as the day progresses.

If I were racing, I would eat a few eggs and maybe a bagel in the morning, lots of water, and then probably a light lunch around 11:30 (banana and bar).

I start shaking by noon if I skip breakfast. I get so damn hungry.

I often, with success, eat little to nothing on race day. I've done this for races as late as 5pm. I just drink coffee and chill out.

tadpole wrote:

I often, with success, eat little to nothing on race day. I've done this for races as late as 5pm. I just drink coffee and chill out.

I could not do that.

Practice eating something light in the morning and then run a workout / at goal pace at 1pm. This is the same thing we all should do in preparation for other important races to us, so why not this one?

Does this happen if you eat even something very small?

Certainly, there's no chance that you'll run out of fuel in a 10k, but I wonder if in your somewhat fasted state your blood glucose levels will be too low, and if that in turn could hurt your performance.

Not a Political Guy wrote:

Dude, you'll need to eat something or you will feel terrible on the starting line.

Eat something fairly substantial (but not problematic) for breakfast around 9am and then have something like bananas to munch on as the day progresses.

If I were racing, I would eat a few eggs and maybe a bagel in the morning, lots of water, and then probably a light lunch around 11:30 (banana and bar).

I start shaking by noon if I skip breakfast. I get so damn hungry.

If he's worried about stitches then eggs are the worst thing you can eat.

Just don't get up until noon. You'll be fine.