{"id":207396,"date":"2025-09-17T06:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fuel-better-run-better-what-to-consume-before-during-and-after-your-run\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:45:32","slug":"zimbabwe-fuel-better-run-better-what-to-consume-before-during-and-after-your-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-fuel-better-run-better-what-to-consume-before-during-and-after-your-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Fuel Better, Run Better &#8211; What to Consume Before, During and After Your Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">People are running. Running to exercise. Running to socialize. Running to achieve personal goals with every mile completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">When all one needs is a good pair of shoes, running seems like an easy activity to start. However, running requires preparation and training, both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">An avid runner herself, Camille Worthington, Ph.D., assistant professor and registered dietitian in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uab.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">University of Alabama at Birmingham<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uab.edu\/medicine\/gimaps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Division of General Internal Medicine and Population Science,<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509160237.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are running. Running to exercise. Running to socialize. Running to achieve personal goals with every mile completed. When all one needs is a good pair of shoes, running seems like an easy activity to start. However, running requires preparation and training, both physically and mentally. An avid runner herself, Camille Worthington, Ph.D., assistant professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,27268,7570,257,7228,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-207396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-consume","tag-fuel","tag-news","tag-run","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}