Improve Your Marathon Nutrition with Jackie Dikos, RDN, CSSD, CLT
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jackie Dikos teaches us how to fuel and hydrate during training, taper and race day while explaining the importance of macronutrients and how to combine them for optimal energy.
She also talks about why she focuses on a 'colorful pate", how and why to calculate sweat-rate and what to do with that information to more effectively leverage aid stations during marathons.
Jackie's firsthand knowledge and experience provide a host of great information, so don't be surprised if you listen to this several times to fully absorb these nutrients of fueling wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | What do you think about when you sit down to a meal? |
| 0:08.0 | What do you aim for on your plate? |
| 0:09.0 | And for some people it might be, they want their mouth to feel good or they want to feel extra full in their stomach. |
| 0:15.6 | I like to have them look at their plate and think, okay, do I have a source of quality |
| 0:18.9 | carbohydrates, a source of lain protein and a source of healthy fat. |
| 0:22.8 | So that should be the starting point. |
| 0:25.8 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast |
| 0:28.0 | from Runners Connect, where it's all about learning |
| 0:30.8 | from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier, coach, and host for the Run to the |
| 0:52.2 | top podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | Who aspires to run a marathon or improve from the last one you ran? |
| 0:59.3 | Who doesn't, right? |
| 1:01.1 | Today's interview is with Jackie Dykes, nutritionist and champion marathoner. |
| 1:06.2 | Today, Jackie and I will be discussing her own marathon training techniques when she participated in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Marathon Trials, |
| 1:16.0 | and she also won the 2010 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon, |
| 1:20.5 | along with her suggestions for us, Mir Mortals mortals who would love some additional advice on how to eat during training, taper and race day. |
| 1:30.0 | A brief intro bio before actually speaking with Jackie will give you the basics. |
| 1:35.0 | Jackie Dykes, RD, CSSD, CSD CLT, we'll learn about those later, is an accomplished marathoner and nutritionist. |
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