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That looks awesome!
Eating and drinking on the go takes practice, but the general advice is 2-300 calories per hour. Try different foods on your training runs to see how you get on eating and digesting them, you don't want anything that is going to upset your digestive system (either end!)
I find that eating something small every hour works on long runs, coupled with tailwind in the water bladder. Over the course of a 40mile run last week I ate Quorn mini eggs, flapjack, a roast potato, milk chocolate, cream cheese wrap. Drank a litre of water with 3 scoops of tailwind, and several swigs of chocolate milk. Basically little and often so you don't feel too full and you keep the energy going in constantly. I find something savoury goes down well when you're getting sick of sweet stuff.
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Any advice/tips on eating during long runs? I am doing RTTS in 2019 and I need to know how to fuel properly. My current runs are not much more than around 20km, so usually just run with an empty stomach...
2018 highlights: running the Fairfield Horseshoe in the Lakes after a long day walking with a heavy pack. It was Type 2 fun the whole way round, but the view was incredible! Other highlight was getting into running in September and clocking up 350km since then.
2019 goals: to continue enjoying running (I’ve always hated it!), to not peak too early this year and tire myself out, to not injure myself, and to not die on RTTS...
Happy new year!
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