The Eat for Endurance Podcast

Welcome to Episode 46 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! It has taken me WAY longer than planned to get this show back into action, so thank you for your patience. I'm very pleased to finally be recording again and to bring you today's Athlete Nutrition Profile, featuring elite ultrarunner Coree Woltering. You may be familiar with Coree from World's Toughest Race - Eco Challenge Fiji...

Welcome to Episode 45 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring ultrarunner, mother, and former private nutrition client of mine, Veronica Leeds. I first met Veronica when she reached out to me back in 2018 when she was relatively new to the sport of ultra running and was seeking help with her everyday and performance nutrition. She had a young son and had started running as a way to literally e...

Welcome to Episode 44 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, highlighting my 40th birthday trail running adventure down in Southern California with my husband, Eric. With all the major marathons happening so close together, I figured it was a perfect time to post our recent experience running 26.2 (well, technically 27+ miles, but hey, that’s a trail marathon for you!). I don’t know how you guys like t...

In episode 43 of The Eat for Endurance Podcast, I’m joined by Sports Dietitian Lauren Antonucci, RDN, CSSD, CDE, CDN, to dive into Nutrition for Masters Athletes .  Lauren was first on the show back in 2019 to discuss fueling young athletes, and now, with the release of her book High Performance Nutrition for Masters Athletes , we’re shifting the focus to athletes aged 35 and up (also known as “Ma...

Welcome to Episode 42 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast , featuring recreational triathlete, Kenny Brighton. This is my first Recreational Athlete Nutrition Profile since Episode 16 (!!), and I’m excited to bring you more episodes like this one in the months to come. Kenny and I first connected when he got in touch with me back in the Fall of 2019. He was training heavily at the time for an event c...

Welcome to Episode 41 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring elite skyrunner, Hillary Allen. Hillary is such a fascinating, multi-dimensional person and athlete. In addition to establishing herself as one of the best mountain ultra runners in the world (hence her trail nickname of "Hillygoat"), she is a scientist and teacher, with a masters degree in neuroscience, physiology and str...

Welcome to Episode 40 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring elite ultra-runner and coach, Lisa Smith-Batchen. I have been trying to get this episode recorded for AGES, and am so excited that our schedules finally aligned for this interview and I am able to share it with you all. Lisa is beyond inspiring - not just because of the incredible things she has accomplished athletically across many...

Welcome to Episode 39 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, during which Kristin Duyn, MScN joins me to tackle the very important topic of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) . Please note that Kristin is  a Certified Sports Nutritionist, NOT a Registered Dietitian. I usually only feature fellow dietitians, but she had a really valuable story to share and we had a great discussion, so I hope y...

Hey guys! I’m excited to bring to you my third (and very overdue) Ask Me Anything episode! I just realized that the last time I did one of these was when Isla was 7 weeks old…and she’s now 17 months old. Yikes! Better late than never though, and I thank you for all the great questions you submitted.  As usual with these Ask Me Anything episodes, it’s completely unedited, recorded in one-go and off...

“Healthy, happy and balanced athletes are the ones that make it across the finish line again and again throughout a long career and leave a legacy” - Jessie Diggins In Episode 37 of The Eat for Endurance Podcast , I’m honored to be joined by cross-country skier and Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins . She is not only dominating her sport, but also using her platform to promote healthy fueling, b...

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Sports Dietitian and research extraordinaire, Kelly Pritchett, PhD, RDN CSSD. Kelly holds a PhD in Exercise Physiology, in addition to an undergraduate degree in Nutrition from The University of Alabama. She has been a practicing dietitian since 2005, and currently is a Professor of Nutrition and Exercise Science at Central Washingt...

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Sports Dietitian Kelly Jones MS, RD, CSSD, LDN. I invited Kelly on the show to talk all about supplements, and I am confident you will learn SO much from her! This episode is a MUST listen for anyone who is currently taking or thinking about taking supplements, especially as we approach the New Year and all the health-related crazin...

Welcome to Episode 34 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring elite vegan ultra-runner and coach, Yassine Diboun. Yassine has a really inspirational story, and I’m so grateful that we were able to have such a long and in-depth discussion, including how he was able to overcome years of substance abuse and overhaul his entire life to become the amazing athlete and role model that he is today. He...

Welcome to Episode 33 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Nathan Fa’avae , elite adventure racer and longtime captain of Team New Zealand , one of the most dominant teams in the sport’s history. Nathan is a true legend in the world of adventure racing , with an athletic career spanning nearly two decades. He has led Team New Zealand to six World Championship victo...

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Senior Peloton Instructor and Masters World Champion track cyclist , Christine D’Ercole . Whether you're a Peloton rider already familiar with Christine or new to her story, I’m beyond excited to share her powerful nutrition journey today. Christine refers to herself as a storyteller, and she truly lives up to that. Over the co...

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast! Today we welcome elite ultrarunner and low-carb high-fat athlete, Mike McKnight, back to the show to chat about two epic things that he recently achieved. In May, he ran 100 miles on ZERO CALORIES in 18 hours and 40 minutes. Then, in late September, he set the men’s supported FKT on the Colorado Trail, which is 485 miles, in 7 days and 13 hou...

Season 3 is finally here!! Or at least this short episode with yours truly is, giving you a little update on what I've been up to these past couple of months, and a preview of my plans for this season of the show.  After a two-month break from recording to head back to NYC and settle back into the working / watching the kids / crazy Covid life, I’m finally starting to record episodes again an...

I’m particularly excited to share Episode 29 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast with you all, as it’s a more personal episode in which I share my own recent running and nutrition experiences, and I also introduce you to my fellow adventure-seeker and running buddy for life - my husband Eric. My goal for this episode is to demonstrate that running (or whatever sport you enjoy engaging in) is not canc...

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Anne Mauney, MPH RD. Anne is a DC area based Registered Dietitian as well as a mother, a runner, and a lover of travel, adventure, the great outdoors, and healthy recipe creation. She has a blog called fAnnetastic food and she has her own nutrition counseling private practice to help clients improve their relationships with food via...

Welcome to Episode 27 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast , featuring Ali Feller , host of the Ali on the Run Show. I’m embarrassed to say that it’s taken me over two months to edit and publish this episode! The joys of working and parenting in these crazy times, that’s all I can say. Podcasting has had to take a bit of a backseat to everything else unfortunately, but I’m still recording episodes whe...

Welcome to Episode 26 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring elite ultrarunner and (mostly) vegan athlete, Mike Wardian. If you haven’t heard of Mike, he’s a beast of an athlete and also one of the nicest, down-to-earth guys you’ll meet in the running world (and elsewhere). The number of back-to-back races, Fastest Known Times (FKTs), and other events that he participates in - and conquers -...

Welcome to Episode 25 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Pediatric Dietitian, Pegah Jalali , MS RD.  Yep, I’m taking a little break from my usual sports nutrition programing to focus on infant and toddler nutrition! It may seem unrelated to talk about general nutrition for kids on this podcast but really, it’s not. Many of my listeners and clients are parents, and as parents, we of course...

Welcome to Episode 24 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Elite ultrarunner, Courtney Dauwalter.  Welcome to Episode 24 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring legendary ultrarunner, Courtney Dauwalter.  Courtney is one of the best ultrarunners competing right now. She’s not just coming in as first female and setting course records at races like UTMB, Western States, and Hardrock; she...

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring elite runner, Running for Real podcast host, and soon to be Mom of two, Tina Muir. Tina famously took a break from professional running in 2017, at the peak of her career and just a few months after setting a PR of 2:36 in the marathon, when she decided to prioritize her health and well-being after not having her period for nine yea...

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl Welcome to Episode 22 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Ashley Selkirk, Ph. D. Given the rapid unraveling of life as we know it in this post-Covid-19 world, I wanted to interview a mental health professional to discuss coping mechanisms and other strategies...