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One of the most important ingredients a runner must stay informed about in his training is vitamins. This is even more so with the long-distance runner. A lot of iron is lost in sweat and urine. Vitamins are one thing in your diet a runner can control through proper nutrition.

 

Some of the aspects you can control to make you a faster runner is long runs and repeats at track sessions. Longer runs make you a stronger runner so in turn you can keep building faster tempo runs. Faster tempos allow you to develop faster repeats. Through you’re running formulas you do finally get to the point that you are getting faster. You will be seeing the difference on time clocks at your next race.

 

Allow me put this into perspective of how vitamins can make you faster. I know you just had to read this because vitamins cannot make you faster. No not directly, but by indirect means they can! It took me a long time to really understand this. If you miss very much of your training you’ll see slow times on race day. So by now you get to thinking why would you miss any training days?

 

Well that can be any number of a dozen different things. I use to never have enough time to get my runs in. However, I made the time because I knew it would show on the time clock! Some times I found myself running at lunch. Some times I ran after dark. Then sometimes I ran before work. I could always change my training days around if I needed to. This meant my long run might fall on a Saturday or a Sunday or a Tuesday.

 

Now we are down to why would you miss any of your training days? Of course! Sickness! Yes, that is how you would miss training days if you were sick with a cold or the flu or any number of things. I did forget one other thing that would cause you to miss a training day and that is injuries. But injuries are a whole other ball of wax we won’t talk about them today.

 

See you actually do have many reasons that could actually knock you off your schedule but we are runners and we keep on running! This is what it takes to be a competitive runner at any age group competition. We get to the part here about vitamins and running. There’s no question running will deplete you of vitamins so we will watch our diet and stay in charge of that.

 

Some of my favorite snacks are apricots. They are rich in iron. You can loose a lot of iron in your long runs. Another one is wheat germ. You can sprinkle that on your cereal in the mornings. Cashew nuts and liver those are just a couple more. Runners know it’s easy to loose too much weight too fast. That’s why we must make it a habit to weigh ourselves every morning. If you are down more than three pounds than the previous day then you have lost too many fluids. Drink up!

 

One of the easiest ways to maintain your needed intake of vitamins is to add nutritional supplements into you diet. It’s not very likely you’re able to eat a bushel full of vegetables a day like the USDA requirements say that’s what it takes to keep a strong body healthy and build a runners strong immune system. We don’t want to get sick because we’ll miss training days. Missing training days is going to cost you seconds off the time clock on race days. If your passion is winning races then fast runners you’ll become and I’ll look over your shoulder to cheer you on!