Week 3: Eating Well during Early Training | Feed Your Runner

It's race weekend for us! Read about this week's delicious picks + grocery list and Jackie's nutrition tip.

Jan 17, 2025

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It’s race weekend for us! Houston half marathon, here we come. The weather is looking really perfect for racing and very chilly for spectating!

Something fun about Clayton: when he has an upcoming race, he will find the previous year’s race on YouTube and watch it. For example, leading into the Olympic Trials marathon last February, he re-watched the Olympic trials from 1992, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.

So one night after the girls were in bed, he and I watched footage (that was very grainy and bumpy) from the 2008 Houston half marathon when Ryan Hall broke the American Record. I was surprised by how much excitement we felt even when we couldn’t make out Ryan’s facial expressions! What a thrill to see him charging toward the finish line.

If you’d like to watch on Sunday morning, you can find watch info here.

This week we had fun celebrating the girls, eating cupcakes and ice cream, and playing many rounds of Slap Jack—a new favorite of our new resident 6-year-old.

We’ve got some tasty picks lined up for you this week!!

Take care,

Ashley

Breakfast

I like to batch prep a few breakfast options, and then mix and match them throughout the week with eggs (usually scrambled with bell peppers) and cereal (I can’t keep Clayton from his rice krispies + bananas or his honey bunches of oats; he’s also a big fan of granola). He usually eats both a savory and a sweet option each morning.

Lunch

Clayton usually eats big breakfasts (post morning run) and big dinners (post afternoon run), so we keep lunch time pretty simple. His typical go-to is turkey sandwiches with pretzels or chips.