The No Meat Athlete On How He Runs on Plants

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2013

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

All hail the running carrot! Today on the show I'm joined by my pal Matt Frazier, the guy behind the wildly successful NoMeatAthlete.com– website, podcast and roadmap series of downloadable tools — an absolute go to resource chock-a-block with information for runners and triathletes of all abilities looking to take their athletic & nutrition game to the next level. Matt founded NoMeatAthlete in 2009, about the same time he went vegetarian. Six months later, Matt qualified for the Boston Marathon with a time of 3:09:59 at the Wineglass Marathon, over 100 minutes faster than his first marathon time seven years prior. In June 2010, Matt ran his first 50-mile ultramarathon, recently completed his first 100-mile race and has run several more ultras and marathons each year since. What's great about Matt is his sincerity, authenticity, transparency and relatability. He's not a world-class athlete, just a friendly, smart and resourceful guy who started experimenting with running and diet and wanted to share what he was learning. A site that started out as little more than a personal document of his experiment in food and fitness, NoMeatAthlete has morphed over the last few years into one of the web's leading resources when it comes to information relating to the intersection of running and plant-based lifestyle. The best part? Matt is genuinely a really nice guy. A guy you just want to see win. Like Rudy — a comparison that will put a smile of irony on your face when you hear our parting words at the end of the interview. Now Matt has taken all he has learned, and synthesized it into a new Book: No Meat Athlete: Run on Plants and Discover Your Fittest, Fastest, Happiest Self* — do yourself a favor and check it out. Let's support this guy! Finally – a note of thanks. Just a few days ago we surpassed ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS of the podcast. That's right. A cool million. That just blows my mind wide open. Does not compute. Surreal. It's all because of you. So thank you – for everything. There have been ups. There have been downs. And more recently, controversy (see comments on Episode 53 with Durianrider- holy smokes). I appreciate you for sticking around. I am truly humbled and more energized than ever to continue the mission. So much great stuff to come. I hope you enjoy the show! Rich

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 54 of the Rich Roll Podcast with no meat athlete, Matt Frazier.
0:17.0	The Rich Roll Podcast.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, I'm Rich Roll and this is the Rich Roll Podcast.
0:24.0	Welcome to the show. What do we do here?
0:26.0	Each week I bring to you the best and the brightest, the most forward-thinking paradigm
0:30.9	busting minds and health and fitness and wellness.
0:34.0	I've had doctors, nutritionists, entrepreneurs, world-class athletes, writers, bloggers,
0:42.0	health professionals, all different kinds of people.
0:45.0	My goal is simple to bring to you the best information so that you can sift through it,
0:52.0	find what resonates with you, incorporate it into your life so that you can unlock
0:57.0	and unleash your best most authentic self.
1:00.0	Today on the show I'm very excited to have my buddy Matt Frazier.
1:04.0	You might know him as the no meat athlete from nomeathlete.com.
1:10.0	He's the runs on plants guy.
1:12.0	And I've known Matt for a couple of years and I've been following him online for longer than that.
1:20.0	If you're not familiar with nomeathlete.com, it is an amazing online resource for people
1:25.0	that are interested in learning more about how to eat a healthy plant-based diet.
1:30.0	And to also be fit Matt's marathon runner.
1:35.0	He's run the Boston Marathon.
1:37.0	He's got a couple 50-mile races under his belt and also has run 100-mile.
1:42.0	And what's great about his website is he's very authentic and transparent in his journey.
1:48.0	This is a site that started off just as a place for him to blog about his new experiment
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