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Hello and welcome to this podcast edition of The Food Program

and the third in our series of programs

all about eating and running,

in which we hear stories about how

what we eat makes us feel

when it comes to running how different foods can help us perform.

Part one and two featured insights from runners around the world, including the beer shandy drinking Olympian Brendan Foster and the vegan ultra-marathan desert runner Scott Durek.

Both programs can be found in our online archive on the Food Program website

and wherever you download your podcasts.

But let's get this edition underway, Eat to Run Part 3, and what better place to start than a road and a bit of light running.

How did this happen? Why am I having to run around again for the food program?

You might be thinking that the two additions we've already made on what to eat to run would have been enough,

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