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

-Sam Sharp