Okay, quick question for those of you who run in the afternoon/evening.
I am definitely a morning person and much prefer morning runs. For short runs I go on an empty stomach, for longer runs a plain bagel or bowl of oatmeal about an hour before sits perfectly and sustains me for most of the run.
I'm trying to do some doubles as I add the miles in, and evening runs have been really hit or miss food-wise. I almost always spend the first mile or two with a cramping stomach that eventually resolves but it just sucks for those first few miles. The other thing is timing the meals. I don't like eating right after a run, and when I get done with my run late, it then gets too late to really eat. What do you guys do?
I'm also working around kid schedules so I can't change the time of the evening run that much. Like right now, 6:30pm to 8:00 is my window for running.