The NYTimes.com has a good analysis of whether or not caffeine can help your performance when you run. It turns out that it is very likely it does help, although not everyone is keen on its benefits, as the article explains.
If you are thinking about using caffeine during a race, try it out on training runs before you do. You may find that you don’t like the results. If you don’t, you want to discover this before your big race, not during.
Read the article: it does a good job of providing the details on the benefits of caffeine and running.
(photo by Flip Kwaitkowski for The New York Times)
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