RunningAHEAD - Topic: coffee and running

jdoyle24

posted: 5/11/2008 at 10:49 AM

I was wondering if coffee actually affects how well you run. Some of my friends try to stay away from drinking coffee, but I love it. Will coffee make me a better runner or not? Undecided

ChknWingy

Oh Mighty Wing

posted: 5/11/2008 at 10:55 AM

I don't believe it's that simple. after 2 days of eating crap (chicken cheese steaks and french fries and cheeseburgers) I feel sluggish but I don't necessarily consider that worse running... Be careful of other people's running superstitions, many times I think they are just that... superstitions!

Dave23

posted: 5/11/2008 at 2:43 PM

Quote from jdoyle24 on 5/11/2008 at 10:49 AM:

Will coffee make me a better runner or not?

Yes.

JakeKnight

posted: 5/11/2008 at 3:18 PM

Quote from Dave23 on 5/11/2008 at 2:43 PM:

Yes.

Weisenheimer. OP: try the search function. Lot's of discussion on coffee and running. Unfortunately, most of them involve poop.

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Run To Win

#2867

posted: 5/11/2008 at 3:51 PM

I avoid coffee (and caffeine) like the plague, since I consider it worse than alcohol or tobacco. I also suffer from severe migraines on occasion and went blind for 2 weeks once a decade ago or so, so I have a good reason to avoid caffeine. Basically, caffeine is a semi-legal performance enhancing drug. If you are used to running with it in training, then you can use it before a race, but if you don't normally run after a cup of coffee it's a bad idea to try racing with it in your system. See Jake's response for just one of the reasons why.

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Bonkin

posted: 5/11/2008 at 4:59 PM

Quote from Dave23 on 5/11/2008 at 2:43 PM:

Yes.

I agree.

When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?

britnfld

posted: 5/11/2008 at 7:29 PM

I have a coffee each day and find that I run worse when I don't drink it, but that's probably because I'm addicted already :P

Marcus L S

The Greatest of All Time

posted: 5/11/2008 at 8:37 PM

Quote from Bonkin on 5/11/2008 at 4:59 PM:

I agree.

I also agree.

all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be

Obesity is a disease. Yes, a disease where nothing tastes bad...except salads.

beef

Ostrich runner

posted: 5/12/2008 at 2:30 AM

There are some really good reasons why not to ingest caffeine, but worse than tobacco, that's just silly.

http://www.runningahead.com/groups/Indy/forum

JakeKnight

posted: 5/12/2008 at 7:39 AM

Quote from beef on 5/12/2008 at 2:30 AM:

There are some really good reasons why not to ingest caffeine, but worse than tobacco, that's just silly.

Totally. I love my coffee, but its not as good as a fine cigar. That is just silly.

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Maplefly

Hoping to Run Again :-(

posted: 5/12/2008 at 10:23 AM
modified: 5/12/2008 at 10:23 AM

I certainly find I have a bit more pep if I run after my morning coffee rather than before. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wasn't already a coffee drinker though. I went decaf for years and once I started dabbling in it again - a cup of coffee became my recreational drug of choice Big grin

Unfortunately, it didn't take long before the supercharge faded.

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Only as much as I dream can I be.
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