Welcome back or welcome to the Single Track Podcast. I am your host, Finn Melanson, and this episode is part two of a two-part conversation. The first half, if you haven't tuned in yet, be sure to do so. Check it out at aired last week. This is part two with nutrition coach Vic Johnson, who goes by the handle Mountain Sports Dietitian on social channels.

You might recognize Vic's name.

He has worked with a number of prominent athletes in our sport, including Rod Farvard,

in recent months and years to help them solve the fueling aspect of the ultra-running equation.

In part one of the conversation, which again aired last week,

Vic shared insights on the evolving role of

nutrition and endurance sports, the relative importance of high carb fueling, the significance of gut,

training, and common nutritional issues faced by endurance athletes, among other topics.

In this follow-up conversation, I'm calling it part two.

We discuss strategies for post-run nutritional-based recovery,

the benefits of antioxidants, strategic use of caffeine, and bicarb,

and other tools during races,

and how to act on the results of sweat composition and sweat rate tests,

among a few other topics.

Let's get right into it.

All right, we are back with another

episode with my friend Vic Johnson, who is not only a great athlete in the sport, but also serves as a

nutritionist for some of the more prominent runners in our sport who are pushing bounds in not just a

performance way, but nutrition as well. And if you missed our first conversation,

it was published last week, midweek, where we go over many topics, including just like his

overarching philosophy, state of nutrition in the sport. We have a really long conversation on high

carb fueling. It was such a good conversation and just so information dense that we decided almost

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