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Welcome to Episode 95 of The Eat for Endurance Podcast! I have an Athlete Nutrition Profile for you today, featuring ultrarunner and coach Jes Woods.

You may already be familiar with Jes, especially if you live in NYC. She coaches thousands of athletes through Nike Run Club, Brooklyn Track Club, and Brooklyn Trail Club, and has also worked with boutique fitness studios including Mile High Run Club and Flywheel.

Jes also is a fierce athlete herself. She competed as a triple jumper for nearly a decade, and then discovered distance running after college while working in broadcasting at NBC. She ultimately embraced the ultra running community, started coaching, and turned fitness into a full-time career.

We had a great discussion about her nutrition and how that has changed over time as she transitioned into distance running. We explore how she fuels herself, from the marathon to the 200 mile distance, as well as what she observes and teaches her own athletes. Jes also shares that she hates to cook, and tells us how she keeps herself well-nourished to support her health and very active lifestyle.

I hope you enjoy this episode! And if you do, please remember to share it with your friends, give it a 5-star rating and write a review wherever you listen to your podcasts. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Links & Announcements:

• Follow Jes on Instagram
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Purchase my NEW Peak Performance course
• Check out my other free and for-purchase offerings
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• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

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In Episode 94 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, sports dietitian Holley Samuel (MS RD CSSD) joins me to talk about body image among athletes.

Holley and I explore how you can improve or at least neutralize your mindset when experiencing negative body image so that you can embrace fueling yourself adequately and withstand the physical demands of training and of life. We also discuss specific strategies we use when we’ve helped an athlete eat, feel and perform better, but they still struggle with poor body image.

Prioritizing health over physical appearance is crucial, especially if you hope to have longevity in your sport and other life activities. Please know that I understand how hard this can be. Body image struggles are very common, and I certainly am not immune to this!

Our bodies are meant to change dramatically throughout our life, but this does not mean it's easy to accept these changes. Improving mindset is a skill that takes ongoing work to develop, and there are no quick fixes. I hope this episode helps you get started!

One last thing - Holley and I are not therapists. We frequently work on body image and mindset with our clients, but respect our scope of expertise. Please consider seeking mental health support if you are really struggling.

Links & Announcements:

• Holley’s website and Instagram
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Check out my free and for-purchase offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE fueling before exercise guide
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

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I’m sure many of you are still taking in all the Western States and Olympic Trials content, but in case you want a little break, I finally got last week’s podcast episode published! Episode 93 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast features runner and jewelry designer, Erica Sara Reese, who is the talent behind Erica Sara Designs.

Erica grew up dancing ballet, dabbled in crew while in college, and eventually discovered her love of running while going through some major life and career changes. She actually completed the same nutrition program at NYU that I did, but then decided to pursue her jewelry business instead.

Erica has spoken openly about her recent struggles with burnout, breast cancer, and perimenopause, and continues this discussion and where she’s at now in today’s episode. Here are some of the other things we explore:

• How her nutrition and overall self-care routine has evolved, especially in recent years
• What survival looks like - not in the context of cancer, but relating to the juggling act of everyday life (parenthood, running our own business, preparing food for the family, taking care of yourself, relationships, etc.)
• The individual nature of nutrition decisions, and how the most important thing is what feels good to you in your unique body

While I asked many of the same questions I often include in my Athlete Nutrition Profiles, this was a far more conversational episode than usual. Some of you don't like it when I talk that much, but I think many of you will relate to what we are both experiencing in our own lives, and I hope you enjoy our discussion!

Links & Announcements:

• Follow Erica on Instagram and check out her website
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Check out my other free and for-purchase offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE fueling before exercise guide
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

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Welcome to Episode 92 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Canadian marathon icon Krista DuChene.

Krista wears many different hats - she’s a Registered Dietitian, a coach, a recently retired professional distance runner, and a mom of 3. She has competed in 22 marathons over more than two decades, including the Olympic marathon in 2016 and the Boston marathon in 2018, where she placed third. After retiring from professional marathoning last year in Tokyo, she joined the trail and ultra community and recently finished her first 100k.

We cover SO much in this episode, including:

• Krista’s experience and ongoing work as a dietitian
• Her nutrition and relationship to food while growing up on a farm, and while running and playing hockey from a young age
• How her focus on “lighter = faster” led to major injury
• Her experience with low energy availability / REDS
• How she recovered to make the Olympic marathon team
• Her experience placing third in the Boston Marathon
• How she fueled more than two decades of competitive marathons
• What her transition into ultra running has been like
• How she feeds her family of 5
• Racing plans for the future

This was a really fun chat, and I hope you all enjoy it!

Today’s episode is sponsored by CurraNZ, a capsule-based supplement made from New Zealand blackcurrants. It’s Informed Sport certified and backed by over 50 published research studies, supporting potential benefits to recovery, gut health, performance, and more. CurraNZ is offering podcast listeners 20% off with code EforEndurance if you’d like to try out their product!

Links:

• Krista’s website and Instagram
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Check out my free and for-purchase digital offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE fueling before exercise guide
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks for just $6/month
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations

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Welcome to Episode 91 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Callie Roseland, MS RD CSSD. Callie is a tactical Performance Dietitian and athlete, and today we’re chatting about nutrition for injury recovery.

We cover a lot in this episode, including

• Injury prevention (briefly)
• Nutrition strategies to recover from a variety of injuries (soft tissue, bone, concussions, surgical vs non-surgical, etc)
• When supplementation may be appropriate, and which ones may be recommended
• The emotional stress of injury and how this affects nutrition
• Pain management
• Nutrition when returning to sport

I hope you enjoy this episode and find it helpful! If you want to learn even more about nutrition for injuries, I covered this topic from a slightly different angle with another Sports RD in Episode 65.

I would be so grateful if you would take a minute to subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen. I appreciate your support!

Today’s episode is sponsored by CurraNZ, a capsule-based supplement made from New Zealand blackcurrants. It’s Informed Sport certified and backed by over 50 published research studies, supporting potential benefits to recovery, gut health, performance, and more. CurraNZ is offering podcast listeners 20% off with code EforEndurance if you’d like to try out their product!

Links:

• Callie’s website and Instagram
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Check out my free and for-purchase offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE fueling before exercise guide
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations

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Welcome to Episode 90 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring sports dietitian and ultra runner Julie Shobe, MS RDN.

Julie is a second-time guest on the show, and I brought her back to tell me all about her recent Zion 100 mile finish. In case you missed it, we did an in-depth episode (number 69) all about how to fuel an ultra marathon. So think of today's episode as a sequel, where instead of general ultra nutrition advice we talk specifically about how Julie created her own fueling plan, what that looked like during training, and how everything played out for her on race day. And as we all know when it comes to these longer endurance events, things rarely go according to plan!

A large reason why Julie wanted to do a 100 miler was to have that personal experience for her client work, since she had never run one before. She shares all the lessons she learned, including things about her nutrition that surprised her, what didn’t go as well as she had hoped, plus some funny stories. We also go off on a few tangents, and even touch on the recent drama about Spring Energy’s Awesome Sauce.

I hope you enjoy this episode and find it useful, especially for those of you training for ultras!

I want to give a quick shout out to this episode's sponsor, CurraNZ, a capsule-based supplement made from New Zealand blackcurrants. It’s Informed Sport certified and backed by over 50 published research studies, supporting potential benefits to recovery, gut health, performance, and more. If you'd like to try their product, get 20% off your first pack of capsules with code EforEndurance!

Links & Announcements:

• Follow Julie on Instagram (@ultra.running.nutrition)
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Purchase my NEW Peak Performance course
• Check out my other free and for-purchase offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE fueling before exercise guide
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations

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Welcome to Episode 89 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring Alyssa Leib, MS RD of Peak to Peak Nutrition.

Today, we’re chatting about sports nutrition for mountain athletes, with a spotlight on climbers. Alyssa is herself a trail runner and climber, and I had a ton of questions about climbing as it’s most definitely not my sport, plus I’m always eager to learn from other sports RDs who specialize in different niches than mine. I thought it would be fun to chat about how nutrition for climbing compares to nutrition for other mountain sports including trail running and mountaineering because as you can imagine, the nutrition concepts are the same, but the logistics and practical considerations are VERY different.

I also find it really fascinating to learn about how sporting cultures compare and contrast, especially when it comes to fueling. We discuss this in detail, and it should come as no surprise that one of the main issues we see among endurance athletes - chronic underfueling - is a major problem in the climbing world too.

Even though we spend a good chunk of the episode chatting about nutrition strategies for climbing specifically, most of our discussion is relevant to all mountain athletes. Alyssa also answers one of my burning questions that I’m SURE you all want to know too - what do climbers do if they have to go to the bathroom?!

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy the episode!

Links & Announcements:

• Follow Alyssa on Instagram
• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Purchase my NEW Peak Performance course
• Check out my other free and for-purchase offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE Fueling Before Exercise Guide and to receive my monthly newsletter
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade

Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations

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Welcome to Episode 88 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring recreational distance runner Trey Duncan.

Trey is a former nutrition client of mine, and he recently ran 2:57 and placed second in his age group at the LA marathon. What a different place he is in now compared to just two years ago, when he was suffering from years of alcohol abuse and was about to enter rehab.

Trey originally contacted me for nutrition coaching in August 2022, right after he got sober. He had started distance running again and needed a major overhaul of his everyday diet (he was underweight and underfueled), a lot of education surrounding performance nutrition especially for his longer runs, and tons of work on other things like sleep and stress management. I also recommended him to a coach so that he could train smarter, as he was prone to overtraining.

Trey would occasionally get in touch after we stopped working together to share some wins with his running, and most recently he texted me about his LA marathon results. After we caught up for a bit, he sent me a photo of him passed out on the streets of LA from just two years ago along with a photo from his recent marathon finish. That’s what prompted me to ask him to come on the show to share his powerful story.

If you are struggling or have ever struggled with any form of addiction, I hope his story resonates and helps to show just how dramatically life can change over a relatively short period of time.

Announcements:

• Watch this episode on my YouTube page
• Purchase my NEW Peak Performance course
• Check out my other free and for-purchase offerings
• Sign up for my email list to download my FREE winter fueling guide and receive my monthly newsletter filled with nutrition tips, recipes and special discounts
• Fill out a new client inquiry form if you’re interested in 1:1 nutrition coaching
• Join my Patreon community to support the pod while getting free merch, special discounts, and other perks
• Please subscribe or follow the show and rate/review it wherever you listen
• Get in touch at claire@eatforendurance.com.
• Music Credit: Joseph McDade
• Disclaimer – all information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to replace individual medical and nutrition recommendations

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