In addition to training, marathon runners must also focus on their diet.A healthy diet will significantly influence your marathon training and race-day performance. An adequate diet in terms of quantity and quality, before, during and after, training and competition, will maximize results for marathon runners.The following steps will help marathon runners develop a diet that will maximize their performance.

Step 1:Basic nutrition needs

Ensure the basic diet needs of the marathon runner are met – this is the foundation of any sports nutrition plan.

Step 2: Training

Marathon runners need to plan for increased nutrition requirements during training. The training diet holds the most potential for improving your marathon performance.

Step 3: Competition

Marathon runners need to develop their own diet strategy for competition. This is when you will implement the diet plan that you have practiced in training.

Step 4 – Special Nutrition Issues
Be aware of special diet issues for marathon runners in order to make decisions to maximize performance.

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