Fuel Your Race

Foundations for Marathon Nutrition

An intimate evening with Sports Dietitian and 7-time marathon runner Grace Liebelt. Designed for Sydney runners at every stage of their journey.

Plus Grace will be joined by a lineup of running experts to give their advice on race day and beyond.

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Built for runners who want to know more and fuel better.

Whether you're preparing for your first half marathon or chasing a personal best over the full distance, what you eat during your training block - and on race day - is doing more work than you might think.

This is an evidence-based, practical evening. Grace will be sharing real nutrition strategies that she uses with her own clients and in her own racing that have worked time and time again.

What You’ll Learn

Marathon nutrition building blocks:

Carbs, protein and hydration - the foundations of a strong training block.

Injury prevention

The nutrition strategies that keep the niggles away through a long training block.

Nutrient timing

What to eat, and when it actually matters most around training and on race day.

Supplementation

What’s actually worth it - evidence vs. marketing.

Training your gut

Why practising your race day fuelling is as important as your long runs.

Q and A

Bring your questions - Grace and the full Grams of Health team will be on hand.

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Your Host

Nikki Lancaster

As the founder of Grams of Health Nutrition School, Nikki is hosting a series of in-person and online seminars to bring you the most up-to-date and evidence-based nutrition education. With a focus on the practical side of nutrition, and a passion for community-based events, the takeaways from these seminars will be relevant, implementable and built to stay with you long after the night is over.

Founder and Host

Grace Liebelt

Featured Speaker and Co-host

Grace brings both the clinical expertise and the lived experience of running 7 marathons herself. She understands firsthand what it takes to fuel a long training block, get race-day nutrition right, and keep the body strong through it all. Grace has worked with athletes all over Sydney to help them fuel to their full potential and is ready to hand out all the tips on this one night!

Your Panelists

Matty Abel

Matty Abel is the founder of Matty Abel Running Academy and a former Nike Head Coach. A 2:48 marathoner who ran back to back sub 3 marathons in a single week at Paris and Boston, he has coached more than 5,000 athletes since 2012, from first time half marathoners to transcontinental record breakers. Men's Health calls him "the coach ultra runners call when taking on the impossible."

Running Coach

Harriet Iles is a registered psychologist with experience across private practice, corporate, and hospital settings. She provides individual psychological support and facilitates team workshops that deliver evidence-based psychoeducation and practical skills in managing stress, anxiety, and mood, as well as habit formation and burnout prevention.

Psychologist

Harriet Iles

Holly is a former professional heptathlete, having competed in World and European Championships and Commonwealth Games, representing Great Britain. After a 15 year track and field career, Holly moved from London to Sydney and decided to embark on a new athletic adventure, diving into the world of endurance.
Since then, she has run 3 marathons, several Hyrox’s and a T100 triathlon and is currently training for her first full ironman later this year.

Athlete

Holly Mills

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Never Run Alone is a podcast exploring the definitions of the word ‘run’, through the eyes, minds, and souls of humans refusing to stand still. It’s hosted by Rien MacDonald, Cam Merrick, Kris Farrenkothen, and Sissi Bergman and features a rotating group of runners, athletes and guests, with a mix of running, training, racing, lifestyle and plenty of tangents.