Category Archives: Miscellaneous

3 Fitness Experiments I'm Dying to Try

First, thank you for all the congratulations and kind words about my 50-miler!  I sincerely hope you all got the message that it's something I really believe you could do, if that's what you decided you wanted. I'm no great runner.  I absolutely hated running until I got to college, and even when I ...

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The Performance-Enhancing Drug Called Laughter

Note: This post was written by Susan Lacke. First off, lovely NMAs…goodness, you are fabulous people. I can’t even begin to express how awesome your responses were to my last post. So many of you shared great stories about how you’re helping newbies overcome adversity and join the ranks of runners across ...

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My First 30-Mile Training Run

I generally don't write about my runs here, since my goal is for you to stay awake when you read No Meat Athlete.  After all, if training were exciting, there wouldn't be a need for so many amazing inventions to help us get six-pack abs while we sit at a desk, sleep, eat, and/or take ...

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15 Sneaky Sodium Foods that Sabotage Your Healthy Diet

Hello again!  This is Christine here with a different kind of Sweet-Tooth Friday post; in fact, it's down-right salty!  Sodium made some controversial headlines recently, and as a healthy-eater I was shocked by how much my pantry was affected by the news. No Deli-Meat, No Cheeto's, No Problem?

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New Vegetarian Running Community Site, and a Free Ad Giveaway on No Meat Athlete

Two new things I'm excited about today.  One is a brand new community website I just started, and the other is a chance for businesses or blogs to advertise (for free) on No Meat Athlete for a whole month. Running on Plants I wrote a post last week urging other vegetarian athletes to do something ...

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Jamie from 'I Like Granola' on Being a No-Meat Athlete

Well, things with little Holden are starting to settle down as we adjust to life with a new baby and the resultant joy and lack of sleep.  I'll be back with a new post tomorrow; in the meantime, enjoy this final guest post, from my friend Jamie. In addition to being the biggest granola-lover I know, ...

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Beer's Dirty Little Vegan Secret

Billy is a beer blogger at BillyBrew.com where he's saving the world from bland, tasteless beer by teaching about flavorful craft beer. Like me, he is a homebrewer. Billy manages to avoid a beer gut by staying active in snowboarding, barefoot running, and kettlebell training.

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The Irony of Commitment (Is That It Doesn't Totally Suck)

If, during any part of the last few years, you were the coffee junkie that I'm now trying hard to no longer be, then surely you've seen the quote on a Starbucks cup: "The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating..." There were lots of other quotes like it, but this one seemed to impact people ...

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Warm and fuzzies

Saturdays have been my "personal post" days recently, as opposed to the more useful, entertaining info that isn't about me that I try to post during the week.  That's been working well, so I'm sticking with it.  Let's get personal! Helping people An email I got from a reader named Bridget this week: I just wanted to let ...

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Quitting coffee attracts some attention!

Week 1 coffee report Image by Refracted Moments™ via Flickr This past Tuesday marked one week on my new, randomized plan to quit coffee.  In case you missed ...

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