A lot of factors go into running a successful marathon, and chief among them is doing a whole lot of training so your body is prepared to run the distance. Once you’ve done that, the next most important thing is getting your fueling right.Even if you’ve trained perfectly and bought the best running shoes available, if you fail to give your body the fuel it needs to run 26.2 miles, you’re in for a bad time.I’ve run 15 marathons, and I’ve fine-tuned my fueling strategy over the years after making plenty of mistakes in my early efforts. The best advice I got was to sort out a strategy well before race day, and then practice it on all my long training runs in the build-up to a race.That’s number one on my list of marathon fueling dos and don’ts — hopefully these can steer you in the right direction for race day.
