AMR Trains #40: Taper Nutrition with Ellie Kempton, MSN, RDN
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Fall is in the air—which means half marathons and marathons are too!
In this episode, Dimity talks to Ellie Kempton about Taper Nutrition: how to properly fill up your personal fuel tank so you're raring to go on race day.
The two talk about:
—Why taper nutrition should start two weeks—not 24 hours–out from race day;
—The "quick tease" that alcohol and sugar provide (and how to find better substitutes);
—What types of protein are best to eat during race week;
—And the fats that will compliment the taper process by bringing inflammation down even further.
Get Ellie's Timely Taper Tips + Taper Recipes right here.
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| 0:00.0 | We're pleased to partner again with Curex, the number one insol in the run specialty retail market, |
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| 0:17.3 | Welcome to AMR Trains, a podcast about training and racing and endurance sports. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Dimitri McDowell, co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 0:37.2 | Temperatures are falling, pumpkin spice lattes are back on the menu, |
| 0:41.5 | and the school supply isles at Target are empty, which means just one thing. |
| 0:46.3 | Race season is here. While starting lines are still not looking like they did pre-pandemic, |
| 0:52.5 | half marathons and marathons are definitely going strong and we're here today to get your |
| 0:57.2 | tapered nutrition dialed. You may know Denver-based dietician Ellie Kempton as the force behind |
| 1:03.6 | simply nourish like a mother and metabolic renewal. She brings an accessible and easy perspective |
| 1:08.9 | to nutrition and ought to all of her advice, which you are going to hear in spades on this podcast |
| 1:14.0 | so get ready. You'll never look at a big plate of pasta the same way again. |
| 1:19.9 | So welcome, Ellie. How are you? Oh, I'm so good. That was, oh, I love that intro. Thank |
| 1:25.3 | you, Dimitri. It's so good to be here. Oh, good. Good. Well, so people are definitely |
| 1:29.4 | familiar with you around these parts, but remind us, what are you up to these days? I mean, |
| 1:34.1 | how have you spent your summer and kind of, you know, the last 18 months of the pandemic? |
| 1:38.8 | Okay, got up. You know, that's a really good question. And I think one of the biggest takeaways |
| 1:46.6 | and something that I'm really trying to capitalize on is I've just started to play a little bit more. |
| 1:52.2 | I've done a lot of playing outside, which has been really refreshing and recalibrating, |
| 1:58.3 | but I've just given myself a little bit more time to play. And so I'm coming out of this summer, |
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