Posted on 02/18/2019 8:20:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ultrarunner Michael Wardian goes from one running challenge to the next. His most recent? Breaking the record for the fastest time completing 10 marathons in 10 days.
He crushed the world record, which included seven races across the seven continents in seven days during the World Marathon Challenge, and three more back on his home soil near Washington, D.C., Wardian averaged a speedy pace of 2:55:17 per marathon.
Then, he finished up that stretch with a 5K with his dog, Rosie, the day after the 10 races.
Here at Runner’s World, we were left wondering how the ultrarunning star is able to compete at such a high level with such scarce recovery time between races.
Sure, he has logged countless miles over the years as a professional runner, so his legs are used to the mileage, but we wanted to see what secrets of the trade he could offer the everyday runner who is simply looking to recover a little better after their race. Here’s what he had to say.
Eat enough
Wardian is a vegetarian, but he always makes sure that he’s eating a balanced diet. That means enough protein. Some of his favorite sources? Eggs, hummus, and almond butter, as he told Runner’s World previously when talking about how he fuels his ultras.
“I usually have pretty good nutrition. This time involved a lot of airplane food, but I packed some bars and love Big Spoon Roasters,” he said. “That, and some GU recovery things really helped. If you’re not taking care of yourself, you’re going to suffer.”
Use Some Tools
There are tons of specialized recovery products out there—don’t be afraid to give them a try.
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Re: Pre-diabetic
You might want to read some of the very recent medical research about “fasting” one day a week as a simple, cost free, treatment for high blood sugar.
Apparently, a 24 hour fast completely resets your blood sugar to a lower level for about one week.
I read science web sites every day, and I’ve seen this subject written about maybe five times in the last year, so it’s not some kind of new diet fad.
Of course, every person has a unique set of health issues, so it may not be helpful for your condition.
1. I commend him.
2. Eggs are animal. People can call it vegetarian fare if they like; it is not.
That raises an interesting philosophical question.
Most chicken eggs for human consumption are unfertilized ovums that pass naturally out of the chicken, and, in a natural setting, are recycled, eventually, through various animals, bacteria, and plants, right back on to someone’s dinner plate.
Is a vegetable that is partially constructed of molecules that once resided in an animal, a plant, an animal, or both?
Or, he could just cut out processed sugar.
^-—— I’ll have what he’s having.
Fill the tub, get in, pull the plug and fight the current.
LOL!
Was that a reference to zeestephen’s diet, Native Son?
If so, my diet is a nutritional catastrophe.
About 3,000 calories a day - most of it sugar and fat junk food!
I usually go at least 18 hours every day with only water or coffee, sometimes make it to 24 hours.
Weight loss has pretty much stalled, down from 233 to 197. Made it to 194 last week but popped up again.
I did a three day fast a few months ago. That reset it for about a week. I think I got FBS down to 82 once, ketones to 3.2.
Re: “Or, he could just cut out processed sugar.”
That’s what makes the 24 hour fast so interesting.
When you try to restrict your caloric intake by just eating less food or less sugar, your body responds by converting almost everything you eat - including protein - into sugar.
Most likely, that response is a digestive artifact from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Every day tended to be feast or famine, and our digestive system optimally adapted itself to that reality.
And it just occurred to me that I just had olives, cured meats, pita chips and black coffee at 4:30AM.
I'm built like a thumb so a runner, is not something I'm ever mistaken for... even when running the philly marathon - friggin streetsweepers blew past me and sprayed me dirt & garbage...twice.
Wheels were invented for at least one reason.
Hummus can be some really good stuff.
vegetarian - does not eat meat/muscle, can eat egg or dairy type things.
vegan- does not eat anything animal based, gelatin, dairy, egg, muscles, bone broth too i guess.
That’s the 5 foot splash n dash.
lol! I do a 20 ounce Coca cola curl.
I am aware of the bastardization of the word. I spent 30 years working in the dietary supplementation & nutrition industry, and lived as a “vegan” for five of those years.
The term, vegan, would not have been coined if the term, vegetarian, had not been rendered meaningless by people who added animal products to an actually vegetarian diet.
This is not mere semantics. There are some fundamental differences between plant and animal foods, with eggs, milk, cheese, and all the other cheating foods clearly falling on the animal side.
There are specific nutrients and substances in each category of food that are not found in the other.
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