I am going to start increasing my eats before long runs. I usually only have one piece of toast with PB, but as I am increasing my mileage I need to increase my before run eats. Today I stuck with the toast and PB&J, and then added another hunk of bread with PB. I am increasing my before run eats slowly so I don’t upset my stomach 🙂 Each week I may add a little more. 
Marathon Training: I did 15 miles today in 2:20:17. I felt really good through the majority of the run! Maybe ice cream is a good carb loading technique. I also think the pasta with salt helped!
This is what I took on my run – a water bottle filled with Camel elixir and chomps. I used to only drink water on my long runs, but have realized the benefits of chews and Gus on runs – do it, if you don’t yet!
On my run I thought about breakfast – hey, if I am running 15 miles I expect a good meal (or two) out of it! It always comes down to the age old question: “Smoothie or Pancakes?” I went with both and made a small smoothie to enjoy while making the pancakes.
I basically make my pancake recipe up as I go along. It is ww flour, oats, egg, cottage cheese, soy milk, baking powder, salt and cinnamon blended up. 
When I poured the batter into the pan I added sliced banana. It was amazing! I also topped it with maple syrup and some PB post pic 🙂
Ben and I were going to do the sightseeing thing again today, but it’s raining. Actually, it started to rain on me at mile 13 and it was just drizzly enough that I loved it! We may postpone that to tomorrrow.
I just realized that we ate breakfast at 11:30am – this is why my weekend eats get so thrown off!
Make it a great Saturday!
I’ve started eating Chomps on my long runs too. I love how you can just pop one or two every few miles or as needed instead of opening a packet of GU and having to eat the whole thing at once. I also use an electrolyte replacement in my water called NUUN. It doesn’t have any sugar or any of that crap in it, you should try it. 🙂
Pancakes after a long run is one of the most fabbo things. My long runs are on Sun mornings and it just happens to coincide with Sunday breakfast right after! 😀
I totally support your ice cream carb loading theory… because if it doesn’t work at least it tasted amazing going down, right?
Nice job! You are speedy! You absolutely earned a hearty breakfast!
ahhh. i didn’t get the memo apparently that you were doing something to your blog so google reader didn’t tell me that youve been posting!
awesome job on the 15 miler! and good call on both smoothie + pancakes 🙂
Wow, good for you man. I can’t even imagine running for that long let alone that fast.
That pancake looks glorious. I always want to make them but I feel like they wouldn’t fill me up.
Goodness!! You are fast….. that’s pretty much my 1/2 marathon time haha. Great run!!
You inspire me each day! I can’t wait until I can run that far.
Congratulations and enjoy your weekend!
I would never deny the power of ice cream carbs
omg girl you are fast! i cant run that far and have a sub 9:50 min mile pace at all! congrats on that! and the pancake looks awesome! Its gonna rain in Chicago too, so that may suck (or not) for the runners tomorrow in the marathon! i am cheering them on!
xoxo
Lo