When exercising, do I eat the extra calories before or after

ianmorrus101

I've been wondering this for a while.

My wife and I are training for a half marathon, so 4 days a week we run. We're only about a month away from the day of the race, so our runs get pretty long now—4 miles on weekdays and 11 miles this Saturday.

That buys a LOT of extra calories. Last week I burned over 1100 when we ran 10 miles Saturday morning. So here's where my question comes in.

If I burn 1100 calories Saturday morning, should I be eating that extra 1100 anytime later that day? Or should I have eaten them the day before? Right now I just increase my caloric intake for the day that I run, and we always run in the morning, so my extra eating is always after the calories have been burned.

It seems like even though I stay within my daily calorie goals most every day, it's the weekends that take me off track, and I worry that it's because my runs are misguiding me by making me think I can eat more *after* when I really should have built up the calorie storage ahead of time.

Any insight into this would be splendid. Thanks!

Laurayinz

I think anytime within the same day would be OK.... but it probably all averages out the same. easier to keep track of daily maybe?

morganadk2_deleted

i used to add the exercise on in the morning and spread the extra calories through out the day.