The aim of this study was to determine and assess nutritional intake practices of senior Ethiopian runners of division one club athletes and a cross sectional descriptive survey design were employed. A total of 825 athlete’s took in division one and among these 300 samples were selected by using simple random sampling techniques, from this 165 were male and 135 were female athletes. Further standardised questionnaires, 24 hours recall methods, food frequency questionnaires (FFQ), and BMI were employed to collect the data. The collected data were analysed through SPSS version 20.1 and ESHA version 8.1 software. The results showed that their intakes were below RDA in energy, CHO, fat, fibre, phosphorus, calcium, and iron and independent t test showed their difference is significant (2-tailed) at 95% confidence intervals. FFQ results showed that the majority were very poor diversification intakes and also their BMI showed that majority (74.1%) of female athletes were in underweight categories. this shows that Ethiopian senior runners are very poor in their nutritional intake practices. Therefore, nutritional support is required by professionals in order to improve their intakes.