Pre-Race Nervousness and Stomach Issues
13 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Joanne Smith explains why pre-race nerves trigger digestive problems in runners. Repeated racing reduces anxiety over time, and careful food choices before a run can calm your stomach.

Joanne Smith explains why pre-race nerves trigger digestive problems in runners. Repeated racing reduces anxiety over time, and careful food choices before a run can calm your stomach.
At the beginning, even though you've only just got there, all the toilets seem to be all stained because a lot of runners suffer with that nerves, the nerves and the anxiety, the pre-race anxiety. And anxiety can seriously cause changes in your, in your digestion, in your stomach and, and your bowel movements massively. That's why they say nervous diarrhoea. But we'll go through some strategies to what might be able to do to calm it. In all honesty, experience, experience. The more you do something The more you get familiar, get familiar, get familiar, eventually that then it just becomes something that you're not nervous about and the anxiety will just naturally fall away. But if we're thinking about the strategies to make little adjustments, then it's things like thinking about what you're going to have before you do the run,