Thursday bump in day breakfaaaaaast. I am a girl who loves to eat, what can I say 🤷🏼‍♀️🙈 but in all seriousness, my race weekend breakfasts hold a lot of nutrient value. I’ll explain ⬇️

This isn’t how I eat every day, this is very much race weekend specific.

I’m about to go into a few days where I’m burning a lot of calories in a short space of time, heart rate is high, focus needs to be sharp, and there’s no room to feel flat or underfuelled.

So this breakfast is built with a purpose.

➡️ GF Oats, banana, almond milk & protein powder and a bit of honey to get carbs in early and start topping up glycogen
➡️ 3 x egg whites (and some cooked cherry tomato’s) for protein so I’ve got something more sustained there as well

I know it looks like a lot of food, but it’s not in the scheme of things. It’s very intentional, and it works.

I’m not trying to be “full”, I’m trying to be fuelled — and that’s a big difference.

Where a lot of people come unstuck is not eating enough, or eating the wrong foods at the wrong time, on a race weekend. You might feel fine at the time, but it catches up with you quickly… lower energy, slower reactions, slow digestion; what you eat really can be the make or break of your results.

For me, this meal sets the tone for the rest of the day, and it gives me a solid base so I can keep topping up my carbs and protein around my sessions, staying consistent with what I do, and actually perform the way I need to across the whole day!

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