Why Cold Pizza Is (and Isn’t) the Perfect Ski Snack

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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If you’ve ever seen a skier pull a hot dog out of a jacket pocket while on a chairlift or devour a towering plate of nachos back at the lodge, you know that few athletes chase calories harder than skiers. And with good reason. Charging down a mountain in the cold empties your body’s glycogen stores—fail to refuel, and you’re going to get sore and sad very quickly. And when it comes to favorite power-up snacks, every skier has an opinion, from endless gummy worms to peanut butter straight from the jar. But you can also fill your tank on scrumptious meals prepared by chefs with a real passion for stoking winter sports athletes. In this episode, we explore the wild world of skier nutrition to get you hungry for your next powder day

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0:41.5	So my happiest moment on the best ski trip I've taken in many years is not what you might
0:46.6	think.
0:47.6	It wasn't an epic powder day.
0:50.1	Well, wait, actually, it wasn't an epic powder day.
0:53.6	But this moment didn't happen in the snow.
0:56.2	It was after that when I was back in the house that my family had rented.
0:59.8	I was still in my long underwear and I just got in a fire going and one of my kids headed
1:05.2	me a piece of peppermint bark.
1:07.6	It was amazing.
1:10.4	This is Michael Roberts, host of the outside podcast.
1:13.6	Happy New Year, everybody.
1:15.6	We're kicking off 2023 with an episode that investigates the powerful, complex and often
1:22.2	delicious relationship between food and sport.
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