Nauseous from early AM runs... Advice?

What are you eating or drinking the night before?

Just normal dinner. Could be anything from pork to chicken to beef stew, fish or pasta. My wife cooks most nights, so its all home made and healthy.

Probably from running on an empty stomach. Have a granola bar before you run in the am.

Alan

I would literally need to eat on the run. I'm not going to get up even 10 minutes earlier to eat something. Its already 5:00 AM!

AMRunner wrote:

I'm not going to get up even 10 minutes earlier to eat something. Its already 5:00 AM!

Even if the 10-15 min. will make your run and post run feels much better? 5 is early, so what? As long as you can get 7+ hours of sleep, it doesn't matter how early you get up - you just need to build the routine.

I normally get up at 5:30, eat and drink something then head out of the door. But, on my long run days, I will get up around 4:30 (so I can be back home by 7:30).

It is up to you to decide which is better: Get up 10-15 min. earlier or have a bad run / post run feeling.

Try drinking a bunch of Gatorade...gets some sugars in you.

Will try the Gatorade option and go from there. Thanks guys.

Congratulations, you're pregnant.

AMRunner wrote:

I would literally need to eat on the run. I'm not going to get up even 10 minutes earlier to eat something. Its already 5:00 AM!

How long could it possibly take to eat a granola bar?

"nauseated"

If you're "nauseous," you make other people sick.

three fig newtons= less than one minute = no near hurling

The only reason I can think of to run early in the AM is that your races start that early and you are trying to get your body used to running at that hour. That has some merit. If not, I would run as late in the PM as possible when the body has naturally warmed up.

I read somewhere that morning runners have twice the injury rate as evening runners and that heart attacks in the general population are more likely in the early morning hours than at any other time of day, 2 good reasons to switch to PM running.

I run every morning before breakfast. It really is more of a jog. This is for basic health and lipid management. My faster training runs are always later in the day.

try two tums in the morning, that always helps me

Take your pants off, I works for me.

Alfredo,

Another good reason to run in the morning is because I work from 7:15 AM to 6:00 PM and have a 45 minute commute to work every day. When I get home, I like to spend an hour or so with my 2 kids, one 18 months and the other 2 months, put them to bed at 8:00 or 8:15, and then relax with my wife. We tend to go to bed at 10 or 10:30, so I could go then, but I honestly think I would get a better run in at 5:00 AM then at 10:30 at night (when I then have to get up at 6:00 to get to work by 7:15 and start it all over again). The latter would actually result in about 6 hours of sleep (midnight to 6:00 AM) when the former would result in 7 (10:00-5:00). That extra hour also would probably help me as a runner.

So spend time with kids, wife and get an extra hour of sleep, but get up at 5:00 and sacrafice not feeling great on the run... OR, spend time with kids, wife and go for a very tired run at 10:30 PM and get only 6 hours of sleep.

I think the former wins.

Weekends are obviously not early morning runs... just Mon-Fri.