Five months ago, my wife Katie gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Let’s call her Eliza (that is her name, after all). For months leading up to Eliza’s birth, Katie and I attended birthing classes, read books on having a healthy pregnancy, and wrote birthing plans, all with the focus on getting that baby […]
When it hits you, it hits you. That moment when everything you’ve worked toward… or dreamed about… or projected onto yourself… comes crashing down. And you realize, this just isn’t for you. Take my first 100 mile ultramarathon, when sometime around mile 80—at 5:00 in the morning—my race turned sour. I was bitter cold, wet, […]
Many plant-based athletes face a rather tough dilemma during endurance efforts: Do we center our workout nutrition around clean, whole plant-based foods, which we can rely on to go down easy and sound appealing? Or should we utilize the processed, artificially flavored, lab crafted goos and gummies engineered specifically for performance? And more importantly, are we […]
Each new year, just after the clock strikes midnight, we’re given a golden opportunity to turn the page on one year, and start writing the story of the next. To set resolutions, and tackle the health, nutrition, and fitness goals that plagued us for the last 12 months. It’s beautiful, if you ask me. The […]
It wasn’t all that many years ago that I didn’t know what an ultramarathon was. I have a distinct memory of chatting with a friend of a friend at a party, and the exact moment he mentioned that he was training for a fifty. Fifty… miles? I stood there, a few months off my first […]
If you aren’t a yogi already, you’ve probably at least considered attending a class. These days yoga studios are everywhere — from small towns to big cities — and that popularity has grown at least in part because of how accessible yoga is for not just the super fit, but for anyone willing to give it […]
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