Runner’s Food Journal No. 5
Athletes sometimes ask for nutritional guidance or just want to know what I eat during a regular day. Below is a food journal from a busy Sunday:
MORNING
Two mugs of black, french press coffee
Nature’s Path flax plus oatmeal with sliced banana and crunchy peanut butter
Activity #1 - Track workout (hard 500m repeats @5K goal race pace)
Activity #2 - Coaching session (ladder workout on the track)
Larabar
Activity #3 - Coaching session (drills, 200s, 300, at 1 mile G.R.P.)
Bowl of Shredded Wheat cereal with fresh blueberries and 2% milk
AFTERNOON
Toast (Dave’s killer bread) with 1/2 avocado
Handfuls of trail mix (almonds, roasted edamame, pumpkin seeds, golden raisins)
Multivitamin
Beet juice (RW Knudsen no sugar added)
Chia quinoa tortilla chips with fresh salsa
Espresso
EVENING
Vegetable samosa
Aloo paratha
Lamb vindaloo
