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[cleo]

After a good run, I like to do a protein smoothie. I use GNC's Lean Shake as a meal replacement for dinner. I do the vanilla powder with unsweetened almond milk as a base, and I usually use frozen organic strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries (while I prefer fresh, let's face it that frozen keeps longer and is always in season!). Sometimes, I add a strawberry or peach yoghurt into the mix.

Someone suggested adding peanutbutter when not using fruit, and it was like a revelation. I love peanutbutter like nobody's business, so I'm going to try that next week.

If not a shake right after I get home, I'll have a Cliff Builder's bar, and I usually have a thinkThin bar sometime in the middle of the day. I'm...kinda a big fan of protein bars in general because there's a texture thing there that I like, but these two are my favorites.

But I definitely feel a difference in my performance when running and my recovery afterwards when I'm not doing the bars and shakes. About the time I started running again, I also stopped eating meat (and while I eat fish, I do not actively eat a lot of it).

So...shakes, bars, cereal, giant steaks...what do you eat or drink to fuel up, refuel, recharge, or just fill yourself up?

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[blnchflr]

So far I haven't run distances long enough (10K is my longest distance)/taken running seriously enough to think about fuelling/refuelling - I'm mainly concerned with remembering to drink enough water afterwards that I don't get a headache later in the day.

It's very possible that if I ever do go for the fabled ½-marathon I'll be shocked I can't run(/walk) a whole race without drinking something, including energy drinks O_o

[cleo]

There's nothing like a good, long drink of cold water after a run. It's something that I actually really look forward to!