#227: Run Fast. Eat Slow: A Chat with Cookbook Co-Author Elyse Kopecky
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 16 September 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and co-host Ellison Weist chew the (healthy) fat with Elyse Kopecky, co-author of the just-released cookbook entitled RUN FAST. EAT SLOW. Nourishing Recipes for Athletes. (Alas, Elyse’s co-author, three-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan, was unable to be on program.) Learn how the seed for the book was first planted at a home-cooked meal at Shalane’s house. Elyse talks about the importance of listening to your body when making food choices, then explains how the underlying premise of all the recipes in the book is “indulgent nourishment.” Hear the definition of “hangry” and how runners can combat this all-consuming sensation. A discussion about the importance of eating healthy fats quickly veers into TMI territory, with Elyse admitting why she didn’t have a natural period until almost her third decade. Finally, delight in the health benefits (health benefits!) of microbrew beers. Cheers!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Boen Shay. I am delighted to be joined today by my good friend |
| 0:15.8 | Ellison Weist. Good morning Sarah. Hello. So what have you been reading there, Allison? |
| 0:22.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:23.0 | I am thrilled to talk about two new books that I read this month, |
| 0:27.0 | including Ann Patchett's upcoming book, Commonwealth. |
| 0:31.0 | Look at you haven't already read that, aren't you just ahead of the curve? |
| 0:35.0 | You are. |
| 0:36.0 | It comes out on Tuesday and I think her legions of fans will be satisfied with the tale of two marriages that collide forcing six children into years of upheaval. |
| 0:46.3 | Now I'll admit I wasn't really charmed at the beginning. I worried that this book might be another one of those |
| 0:52.1 | humdrum divorce family sagas |
| 0:55.4 | but I tell you patch it is a sneaky trickster she's such a gifted writer such a lyrical |
| 1:01.4 | beautiful writer she is you. Suddenly out came the deepening of personalities and the |
| 1:07.2 | layering of one character's story over another. I hated to see this book end. |
| 1:12.2 | Oh yeah I was reading I'm not sure where. I hated to see this book and. |
| 1:12.5 | Oh yeah, I was reading, I'm not sure where, oh, maybe the reviews on Entertainment Weekly, |
| 1:16.9 | I don't know, some low browplace like that, although that's what I love Entertainment Weekly, |
| 1:21.6 | that they were saying, you know, |
| 1:23.4 | even though it didn't have the, you know, |
| 1:25.7 | it wasn't set in South America like State of Wonder |
| 1:29.1 | or Belkanto, but it still really was as deep and rich of an environment, so to speak. |
| 1:36.3 | It was, and she really, I think it really gets into the characters without, I say she's tricky |
| 1:40.8 | because it sort of comes in underneath. |
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