What to eat in the days before the 2025 London Marathon

Porridge with berries and apples is a carb-heavy but also contains plenty of fibre. Add nuts and seeds too - (Pixabay)

Anyone taking part in this year’s London Marathon will need no reminding that the 26.2 mile run is only a couple of days away.

A record 56,000 are set to line up in Greenwich on Sunday for the start of the 35th edition of the event, in which celebrities such as Chris Evans and Kelly Brook rub shoulders with the likes of Eliud Kipchoge and Sifan Hassan (or, more likely, trail hours behind them).