The Eat for Endurance Podcast

Welcome to Episode 71 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast ! This week, I’m joined by Sage Canaday , a pro-runner, coach, and plant-based athlete with over 20 years of running experience.  Sage is known for his “any surface, any distance” motto, and his impressive career has seen him excel both on the roads and in the mountains. He’s a 2-time US Olympic Trials qualifier in the marathon and has secured...

Welcome to Episode 70 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast ! In this episode, I’m joined by Corrine Malcolm , a professional ultrarunner, coach, co-host of the Trail Society Podcast , and Editor-in-Chief at Freetrail . Corrine’s story is packed with incredible experiences, and even with 90 minutes of conversation, we barely scratched the surface! We dive deep into her background as a high school and c...

Welcome to episode 69 of the Eat for Endurance podcast! Today’s topic is Performance Nutrition for Ultrarunners, and features fellow Registered Dietitian and ultrarunner, Julie Shobe MS RD.  Julie and I cover all the building blocks to creating a successful race day nutrition plan, such as: Hourly carb and protein goals during long training runs and ultra races Popular sports nutrition products an...

Welcome to Episode 68 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Dylan Bowman, a professional trail runner, co-founder of Freetrail, and host of the Freetrail Podcast. Dylan has had a long and impressive career as a trail and ultra runner, with too many wins and podiums from the past 14 years to mention here. These days, he’s at least as well known for his company Freetrail as he is for his succe...

Welcome to Episode 67 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Performance Dietitian Kirsten Screen, MPH RD LD. Today's topic is  functional nutrition for endurance athletes, and let me tell you - it is a jam-packed 90 minutes that you do not want to miss!    Kirsten specializes in Integrative Performance Nutrition and has been in the nutrition world for over 20 years. I took a couple of c...

Welcome to Episode 66 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Ellie Pell, aka Gazzellie, a semi-professional distance runner and Manager of the Skratch Labs Cafe in Boulder, Colorado. Ellie is probably best known as a trail and ultra runner, with several wins and podiums under her belt, but she also is a fierce road marathoner! She qualified for the Olympic marathon trials in 2019, ran the tri...

Welcome to episode 65 of the Eat for Endurance podcast, featuring sports dietitian Kelsey Pontius, RD LDN CSSD. Kelsey is the founder of her private practice, Meteor Nutrition, and is a talented distance runner as well, qualifying for both the 2020 and 2024 US Marathon Olympic Trials.  Today, Kelsey and I chat in depth about two topics that we frequently address with our athletes - iron status and...

Welcome to Episode 64 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! As many of you know, I was at the Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB on April 29th to run the 50k. Canyons is a large international event, as it is a qualifier for both the UTMB World Series Finale in Chamonix, France as well as of the Western States 100, so Auburn was buzzing ALL weekend long with amazing athletes.  Not long after I finished my...

Welcome to Episode 63 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring professional distance runner Stephanie Bruce.  I’ve been a big fan of Steph’s for many years. I deeply admire how candid and open she is about her professional and personal experiences, whether it’s about race performances, her postpartum body, losing her mother to cancer, daily life with her husband and two young boys, navigating l...

Welcome to Episode 62 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring recreational ultrarunner, Elise Mordos.  Elise is a New Yorker, born and raised, who works in finance and moved to Boulder, CO during the pandemic for a change of lifestyle. She started running in 2013, and has since run dozens of road marathons and ultras, including the Western States 100. Trail ultras are her main focus these days...

Welcome to Episode 61 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! My guest today is Sarah Currie (MS RD CDN), a Registered Dietitian, personal trainer, triathlon coach, and co-partner of Physical Equilibrium, a boutique gym based in Midtown Manhattan. She is passionate about helping clients get strong and lean through proper strength training and nutrition strategies, and that is our topic for this episode....

Welcome to Episode 60 of the Eat for Endurance podcast! Today, I’m joined by John Kelly, an elite ultrarunner, engineer, and father of four, who somehow finds time to push the limits of human endurance while balancing work and family life. John is perhaps best known as one of the few finishers of the infamous Barkley Marathons . In 2017, he became only the 15th person in history to complete all fi...

Welcome to episode 59 of the Eat for Endurance podcast! Today, I am welcoming fellow sports dietitian Jill Merkel, MS RD CSSD onto the show. Jill is an anti-diet, weight-inclusive Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and a runner. Jill has worked in a variety of collegiate sport settings, and was the Team Sports Dietitian for the NFL Tennessee Titans for five seasons (2017-2...

Welcome to Episode 58 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! My guest today is Line Thams, a professional middle distance triathlete from Denmark who also holds a PhD in Sports Science.  Line’s athletic journey has been far from straightforward. She is a self-proclaimed “nerd” who had an intense fear of water and little interest in sports throughout much of her young life. She eventually forced herself...

Welcome to Episode 57 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring ultrarunner and world-record holder, Jacky Hunt-Broersma.  If you’re not already familiar with Jacky’s inspiring story, I highly encourage you to check out some of the podcasts she did last Spring surrounding her world record accomplishment of 104 marathons in 104 days. She delves into great detail about her cancer diagnosis and sub...

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to episode 56 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast. Today, we're tackling the topic of Winter Sports Nutrition, featuring Kylee Van Horn, RDN. Kylee is a sports dietitian based in the mountains of Colorado, regularly works with winter athletes in her private practice, FlyNutrition, and is a runner and winter athlete herself.  Although I used to ski when I was y...

Welcome to Episode 55 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast ! Today I have a short recap for you on my Mt Tam 50k trail race this past Saturday, November 12th. It was a gorgeous, challenging course that went through Mt. Tamalpais State Park, Muir Woods National Monument, and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. We had absolutely perfect weather, and although it was a tough run, I had such a joyful...

Welcome to Episode 54 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast , featuring Dr. Kelly Pritchett PhD, RDN, CSSD and Keely Henninger.  Kelly is a Sports Dietitian, Professor in nutrition and exercise science at Central Washington University, and an endurance runner. In Episode 36 , she came on my show to discuss current research on a variety of nutrition topics, and she returns today to speak about two of he...

Welcome to Episode 53 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast ! I am so excited to have Mike Wardian back on the show to chat about his transcon run, which he completed this past July. I did an Athlete Nutrition Profile on Mike in April 2020, right after he won the Quarantine Backyard Ultra with 262 miles in 63 hours. If you would like to learn more about Mike’s nutrition story as a plant-based athlete (...

Welcome to Episode 52 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! I am really excited about my guest today - sports scientist Andy Blow. In his younger days, Andy was an elite-level triathlete, finishing in the top-10 of Ironman and 70.3 races, as well as winning an Xterra World title. He also previously worked as the Team Sports Scientist for the Benetton and Renault Formula 1 teams, and remains an adviser...

Welcome to Episode 51 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast ! Today I have a short recap for you  on my recent Rodeo Valley 50k race, a beautiful and challenging course in the Marin Headlands that I ran on August 6th. It was my first ultra in over 7 years, as well as my first ultra running all by myself (instead of with my husband). It felt so good to run my own race and prove to myself that I can stil...

Welcome to Episode 50 of the  Eat for Endurance Podcast ! Today we have a real legend in the endurance world - Dr. David Horton. You may already know of “Horty” if you are well versed in your ultra running history, or if you happen to have run one of the many many races he has directed. Or maybe you’ve heard of something called “Horton miles,” one his signature quotes, like “It never always gets w...

Welcome to Episode 49 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, and my fourth Ask Me Anything episode! It’s been well over a year since I’ve done one of these (yikes!) so this was long overdue.  Thank you to everyone who submitted questions. We covered a variety of topics, including: Counting macros vs eating intuitively for athletes Fueling workouts for a Type 2 Diabetic runner The risks/consequences of...

Welcome to Episode 48 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast , featuring…yours truly! Somewhat spontaneously, I decided to do something different in this episode - spend some solo time with my mic and ask myself all the usual questions I throw at my guests! I’m obviously not an elite athlete, so if you’re here for the big names and the RD interviews, feel free to skip this one. But if you’re curious to...

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast , featuring one of the greatest ultra-endurance cyclists of all time, Lael Wilcox ! Lael has been redefining what's possible on two wheels since she started racing in 2014. After years of bike touring around the world, she quickly became a dominant force in ultra-distance cycling. Her achievements are nothing short of jaw-dropping: 2015 –...