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The Outlier Health Podcast

What to Eat Before a Race

The Outlier Health Podcast

Matt Frazier

Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our answer to the common question: "What should I eat before a race or long run?"

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi this is Hope.

0:03.0

This is K

0:07.0

Katie from Washington DC and you're left to no meat radio. Doug, we've got a listener question.

0:15.0

All right, I love listener questions.

0:18.0

This one comes from Amanda.

0:22.0

She says,

0:22.7

Matt, what should I eat pre-race? I met a woman who was vegan the

0:26.0

other day and she says she ran a full marathon off of two scoops of chia seeds.

0:30.3

I found myself eating a granola bar before a race but I want to be more organic and natural what should I try?

0:37.0

Two things stand out to me in this email.

0:40.0

Okay, let's hear them.

0:42.0

I guess three. The first is that it's a good question. It's a question we get a lot. Yes, all the time. All the time. And so thanks Amanda for asking it and allowing us to do a podcast on it. Second thing is that probably she won't have too much trouble finding

0:57.2

a natural organic Whole Foods.

1:00.8

Crenola Bar right? Granola bar, right?

1:04.0

What?

1:05.0

She says she wants to be more organic and natural.

1:07.0

But I mean, I think, first of all, a granola bar is like,

1:10.0

when someone is organic and natural, they call them a granola. A granola.

1:13.4

I mean that's already there.

1:14.9

Just make sure it says organic and natural on the label and you got it.

1:17.8

You're good to go.

1:18.4

And then the third thing is how funny it is to scoop cheese seeds into your mouth.

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