515. Lottie Bildirici, Author of Running on Veggies

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Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

"It was the fear of the unknown — but that was what I loved also. I don’t want to do something I know I could finish or know I could do. I want to do this thing that’s going to be really hard… and there was no stopping me."

At 14 years old, Lottie Bildirici — a lifelong New Yorker — went from being a happy-go-lucky high schooler to a cancer patient. A lump on her neck turned out to be Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and Lottie immediately began chemotherapy treatments. She was the sick kid. But as she recovered physically (and was given a cancer-free diagnosis!), Lottie realized she had lost her identity. Who was she without cancer? And it was running that helped her redefine herself. Lottie completed a half-marathon at Disney World, and a passion for the sport was immediately ignited. She started learning more about health and nutrition — but soon lost her way. In this conversation, Lottie talks about growing up in the kitchen, and about how a love for food led her down a scary path with orthorexia and recurring stress fractures. She talks about creating her blog and Instagram account, Running on Veggies, and about working with professional athletes including Kara Goucher and Stephanie Bruce. Today, Lottie is a nutrition coach for adidas, she's an Ironman triathlete (she completed her first Ironman on the 10-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis), and she's a published author. Her first cookbook, Running on Veggies, came out earlier this year.

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What you’ll get on this episode:

What Lottie had for breakfast today, and how she’s celebrating life right now (6:10)
Lottie’s love for cooking (8:00)
On writing a cookbook (10:30)
What life was like for Lottie in high school, when she received a life-changing diagnosis (12:00)
How Lottie started running, and her experience with orthorexia and recurring stress fractures (23:15)
How Lottie started working with professional athletes including Kara Goucher and Stephanie Bruce (35:25)
What it’s like when Lottie works one-on-one with clients (39:50)
Lottie’s food philosophy (43:00)
Lottie’s job with adidas, and what a day in the life of Lottie Bildirici looks like (45:00)
Lottie’s decision to complete an Ironman on the 10-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis (48:15)
The role running plays in Lottie’s life right now (55:00)

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0:00.0	This episode of The Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by the Weinstein Half-Marathon.
0:05.2	Hurry up and register for the inaugural event taking place July 16th.
0:11.0	Go to WeinShineHalfMarathon.org and use code on the run to get $25 off your registration.
0:19.5	Hope to see you this summer.
0:21.1	In Napa! Yay!
0:23.1	Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Feller and I am here with a bonus
0:32.6	episode for you today. Today, Lottie Builderichi is here. You probably know Lottie by her
0:39.2	Instagram moniker running on veggies. Lottie is an Iron Man triathlete. She's the North
0:45.3	America nutrition coach for Adidas. She's a lifelong New Yorker. She has worked with
0:50.4	Kara Goucher, Steph Bruce and so many other professional athletes. And now, she's a cookbook
0:56.8	author. Lottie's cookbook, the appropriately titled Running on Veggies, came out earlier
1:03.1	this year and this thing is beautiful. In this conversation, we get to hear all about
1:08.6	Lottie's love for cooking, which basically started as soon as she was born and got her name.
1:13.4	You'll hear more about that. She talks about her passion for being in the kitchen and for
1:17.4	making people feel good through food. And she talks about her own running story, which
1:22.2	started when she was a senior in high school. Lottie had just gotten through a pretty traumatic
1:27.2	time in her life. She was 14 years old when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
1:33.0	And running helped her find a new identity. It helped her find her strength. And it helped
1:38.5	her move into a new phase of life where she wasn't defined as the sick kid. This was a beautiful
1:44.0	conversation and it's one that was a long time coming. You'll hear more about that right
1:48.2	off the bat. So let's do it. Please join me in welcoming cookbook author Lottie
1:53.0	Builder E.G. to the Alley on the Run Show.
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