What food do you recommend for Event Day?

Event Day nutrition is a very personal thing, and our best recommendation is to bring food you love to eat while walking, and have tested on your training hikes beforehand. Event Day food is not ‘normal’ food, particularly for the 50km event, and is not the time to get adventurous with something new. You want carbs that give you quick boosts of energy, rather than slow-burning fuel that sits in your stomach. Our favourites include fruit, nuts, veggie wraps, banana and honey sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, vegemite sandwiches, bliss bars, muesli bars, scroggin, ice cream, chocolate, coffee and sushi. 

The food you will want will depend on your tastes, the weather, how far you are walking, how fit you are and how much fun you want to have. We also recommend experimenting with different foods and nutrition on your training walks so you’ll know what works best for you. 

Ideally, it’s good to have a light breakfast before you hike then eat small portions often throughout the event (for example, cut a sandwich into four and eat a quarter every half hour, rather than all at once).  

For more detail on Event Day food, with specific guidelines around what and when to eat to get the most out of the event, please check out the Plan and Prep section of your dashboard for the appropriate ebook.