I’ll never forget the first time I topped a Nuun tab. It was a hot day in July and I had been on a particularly long road ride. My friend pulled out this small tube and dropped a pink circle into my water that started hissing and spitting and finally settled into the most delicious… Read More…
Genuine Health: It Matters
I will never forget my first appointment with a sports dietician last year. I arrived at the appointment feeling confident in my nutrition and health. I watched my nutrients, I drank water, I tried to sleep enough hours to recover properly. She took a look at my diet and began asking a rapid fire round… Read More…
Glycemic Index and SOLO
Let’s talk glycemic index for a moment, shall we? It’s a buzz word that has been thrown around a lot and as it is showing up in the aisles of the grocery story, it is time to take pause and understand it. The Glycemic Index is a ranking of how fast or how much a… Read More…
Mental Health Week and North Coast Naturals
This is a pretty important week for me. So often as athletes, we focus on physical training that we forget that we are made up of more stuff than just bones and muscles. Putting in long hours of training and losing the ability to spend quality time with friends and family. Focusing so much on… Read More…
Eating and Minimalism
I don’t know about you, but I always end up needing more food than I think I do. As a runner, it has been trained into me to be as minimalistic as possible when I go places and you will often find me walking around carrying the bare minimum. I routinely get made fun of… Read More…
Green Tea Sports Drink
It is about a month into the new job and I think I finally have the routine down pat. I wake up in the darkness at what most humans call Stupid O’clock and put on my running shoes. It’s go time. I eat like a teenaged boy, so it is the first thing I do… Read More…
On Defiance: Matcha Shots
Sometimes running can make me feel defiant. This winter, I have been wrought with injuries because I have been training outside and the combination of cold weather and slippery roads have been causing numb feet, cranky achilles and tight calves. I moved my training indoors so lately I have been drifting along on the treadmill… Read More…
Spring Greening
On Wednesday, I often talk about sports nutrition and today I’m going to chat about cleansing and clean eating. I will never be a food blogger because if it has over 5 ingredients, I probably will not take the time to make it. My weekday meals are almost identical with an odd ingredient swap here… Read More…
Carbs and the Endurance Athlete
It is funny to me that something as innocent as carbohydrates have gotten so much heat in the media in the past number of years. Really, when you think about it – fat was the target only a few short years ago and it will probably be protein in 2020. As an athlete, it is… Read More…
Book Review – Health Food Junkies by Steven Bratman
Alright friends, we are finally back to regular blogging schedule! On Wednesday, I try and touch on something nutrition related and this week, we are chatting about my book review for March. For those of you who are new readers, one of my goals for 2014 is to read a book relating to the blog… Read More…
