Running Nutrition & Fuelling: An Evening with Dr Nicky Keay

Join us for an evening with Dr Nicky Keay on everything fuelling, nutrition, recovery, and energy availability for runners and endurance athletes. Nicky will explore the differences between nutrition needs for men and women, at different ages.  She will share her expertise on relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs) and talk about how understanding our hormones can optimise health and performance.

This is a public event, not just for Dashers, so please feel free to spread the word and invite friends and family.

Timings

18:30 Doors open (bar open)

19:00 Dr Nicky Keay talk

19:40 Q&A

20:00 Prizedraw, with thanks to kind donations from our event sponsors

Sponsors

We are very grateful to our event sponsor, ecoswash, the eco-friendly laundry detergent made specifically to clean your activewear! 🌿 ecoswash will be giving away a subscription of ecoswash and other cool prizes at the event. ecoswash are passionate about caring for your performance wear while protecting our planet. Their innovative plant-based laundry sheets are tailor-made for cleaning activewear, offering a sustainable solution that's gentle on the environment. With ecoswash, you can say goodbye to single-use plastics and animal cruelty concerns. Plus, ecoswash's convenient delivery system ensures your eco-friendly solution arrives directly at your doorstep. As part of their commitment to our oceans, they've partnered with Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) to support ocean pollution reduction initiatives.

Everyone who buys a ticket will be in a chance of winning the following prizes in our draw:

• An ecoswash subscription
• A voucher for a sports massage with the wonderful Ruth Evered, based at TVAC
• A signed copy of Dr Nicky Keay’s book, “Health Hormones and Human Potential: A guide to understanding your hormones to optimise your health and performance”
• A Torq bundle of energy gels
• A race entry to the Phantom Brewery 10km on Sunday 15 September, from Barnes Fitness. 

About Dr Nicky Keay

Dr Nicky Keay studied medicine at Cambridge University and went on to focus on the endocrine interactions with exercise and nutrition. She is the author of “Health Hormones and Human Potential: A guide to understanding your hormones to optimise your health and performance”. (Signed copies will be available to buy at the event.)

Her clinical endocrine work is mainly with exercisers, dancers and athletes, with a focus on relative energy deficiency in sport (REDs) and athletes navigating perimenopause/menopause. Nicky works to provide a more personalised approach for female hormone health.

Nicky authored the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine Health4performance.co.uk online resource. Nicky is medical advisor to Scottish Ballet and a keen athlete herself. She has a background in competitive swimming, gymnastics and tennis.

You can read Nicky’s full bio here.

Accessibility 

With regret, this venue is only accessible via stairs. 

Please let us know in advance if you require any additional  support or adjustments  that we can provide during this event. 

Questions?

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Emily Gow at ladiescaptain@datchetdashers.com