The Runner's Cookbook: More than 100 delicious recipes to fuel your running
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More than 100 tempting recipes to fuel your running.
Whether you’re training for a marathon, a half-marathon, an ultra-distance event or just looking to improve your parkrun time, what you eat makes all the difference.
This is the ultimate nutrition guide and cookbook for runners, packed with easy, delicious recipes and practical eating advice on how to prepare for 5k, 10k, half-marathons, marathons and ultra-races. Find out what to eat before, during and after your running sessions to get the most out of your training, with additional guidance on hydration, supplements and how to optimise recovery from injury.
Enjoy more than 100 easy-to-prepare recipes – including breakfasts, salads, main meals, vegetarian main meals, desserts and snacks – all nutritionally balanced to help you go the extra mile and achieve your running goals.
More than 100 tempting recipes to fuel your running.
Packed with over 100 recipes specifically designed to support runners
Delicious, easy to prepare meal ideas
Bestselling nutritionist and author Anita Bean brings her practical, accessible style to this must-have recipe book for anyone who takes their running seriously
Stunning food photography brings the recipes to life - a mouthwatering book
Foreword
Introduction
Part one: How to eat like a runner
Calculate your Calorie Needs
Carbohydrate
Protein
Fat
Eat a Rainbow of Colours
Hydration
Running and Weight Loss
Recovery from Injury
Sports Nutrition Products and Supplements
Part two: Fuelling your run
Before a Run
During a Run
After a Run
Fuelling for Different Distances
Fuelling for a 5K
Fuelling for a 10K
Fuelling for a half-marathon
Fuelling for a marathon
Fuelling for an ultra race
Part 3: Recipes
Breakfasts
Salads
Soups
Main Meals
Vegetarian Main Meals
Desserts
Snacks
Smoothies and Recovery Drinks
Recipe Index
References
Index
This book delivers brilliant, easy-to-digest advice. Anita’s tips and recipes are spot on – whether you’re running one mile or 26.2!
Anita’s latest running book is set to motivate and help runners of all levels improve their nutritional knowledge as well as their cooking skills… Anita guides you through optimal recovery, hydration, nutritional health through injury, as well as information on supplements and more.
Bean is a first-class nutritionist and the recipes are peppered with nutritional and hydration tips, supplements and the kind of foods you need to eat to enhance recovery or speed up return following injury
An essential purchase…nutritionally bulletproof advice. Easy, delicious and not just for runners.
excellent
Book of the month
Part nutrition guide, part cookbook, the recipes are simple, come with extensive nutritional information, and are tailored to a typical runner’s lifestyle, meaning they’re genuinely quick to whip up and will keep you going and going.
The recipes are simple, come with extensive nutritional information, and are tailored to a typical runner’s lifestyle.
Anita’s book will show you how to get the energy and nutrients you need to train harder, increase your stamina and strength, perform better and recover more efficiently.
covers everything from before, during and after training- with in-depth looks at how different foods will benefit you in different ways, giving you the tools to design your own diet.
- Title: The Runner's Cookbook: More than 100 delicious recipes to fuel your running
- Author: Anita Bean
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472946782, 9781472946775, 1472946774, 1472946782
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472946782
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:04:26Z
Anita Bean is an award-winning registered nutritionist, health writer, internationally published author and
champion athlete. She specialises in sport and exercise nutrition and is passionate about helping runners improve their performance in training and competition through her writing and talks. She is the author of The Vegan Athlete' Cookbook, The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition, The Vegetarian Athlete's Cookbook, Food for Fitness and Sports Nutrition for Young Athletes, among other titles.