- I think the longest run ever.
Start the run 55th. Make it super delicious.
The kiwi's a little tight?
(funky music)
Morning gang. It's Saturday.
That means it's long run day,
preceded by a short bike.
Legs are smashed from yesterday.
I think that the long run is gonna be a little tough,
'cause we got a fair bit of snow two nights ago.
So it's gonna be really sugary
all around the running surface.
I can deal with it.
I'm about to finish up the 30 minutes with a 10 minutes
at race pace, down to just a little bit above.
(squeaking sounds)
I train on blocks of two weeks going hard,
and then one rest week.
And today, is the second last day of that two week block.
Towards the end of those two week blocks,
everything starts feeling tired.
Every work out feels tough.
I start throwing hissy fits.
Little glimmers of motivation and then things start hurting.
The things that make it easier to keep going
are things like today, where A, I've got a coach
and I don't want to let him down,
because B, I always train with a training group
and in 18 minutes, they're expecting me to show up
for the long run, so I'm accountable to them.
And then C, having a regular schedule,
where I don't have to think about, waking up
and what do I feel like doing today.
Today's Saturday, so it's just bike and run day.
Also, coffee helps.
So I'll finish up here in 28 seconds,
really quick change, drive over to Coach Pat's
and see if I can make all 13 or 14 miles of long run.
The bike's squeaky today.
Dave, what are you gonna say about today?
- Uh, kiwi's a little tight, but.
- The kiwi's a little tight?
(laughs)
(hard breathing)
That there was I think the longest run ever.
It was 23k and 151, 450 per k pace.
(upbeat music)
So I get a lot of questions about what I eat.
So we're gonna answer what I eat right now.
Breakfast, about 95 percent of the time,
breakfast is either one of two things,
either gluten free cereal, we usually go with rice chex,
'cause it's cheap.
I add almond milk, coconut milk, quinoa milk,
sometimes I mix and match, and then I throw
in a little bit of protein,
just to make sure I get some protein.
Sweetener, Truvia, a stevia sweetener,
to sweeten it up.
And usually four berry blend for the antioxidants.
Make it super delicious.
If I'm in a real big hurry,
we go with gluten free toast, natural peanut butter,
natural honey from my honey guy.
Both of them accomplish getting a fair bit of carbs,
but not making it really really quick release,
like high glycemic index carbs and I get a fair bit
of solid food like slow digesting peanut butter,
slow digesting proteins, slow digesting almond milk,
so that I don't have a really big blood sugar spike,
and then a crash.
One thing I am very conscious of is that honey
gives me a fairly big blood sugar spike.
And if I don't have a workout that is really big
to burn off all the sugar from this honey shortly after,
I do get hungry and I get those hunger pains
when the blood sugar comes down.
That's breakfast.
After a workout, I'm doing one of either two things.
I'm either going with overnight oats or the shake
that I told you about the other day.
In both cases, again, I'm looking at accomplishing
the same things.
After that morning workout, I'm looking at replenishing
all of my glycogen stores.
So I am looking for a little bit more fast release carbs.
Get as many varieties of food and types of food
and liquids and electrolytes into my body,
so that I'm not missing out on anything.
So MCT oil, beetroot powder, macadamia nuts, raisins,
protein powder, psyllium husk fiber, chia seeds, flax,
hemp hearts, almond milk, quinoa milk,
coconut milk, hydrolyzed gelatin.
Like all kinds of stuff, so that after that really hard
morning workout, I'm making sure that I'm topping
up my levels of everything and I'm not going
to become deficient.
And I'm not depriving my body by having such a small meal
that I end up becoming hungry later in the day.
Snacks. My go to snacks are usually one of three things.
I'll usually have an apple and a Larabar.
I'm actually trying to get away from the Larabars,
because there's a fair bit of sugar and I find that
they make me hungry later in the day.
Chick peas, we make a lot of things, well,
Kim makes a lot of things out of chick peas,
because it's gluten free and they provide
a little bit of protein.
Crackers with a base of vegan, what is this,
it's kinda like cream cheese,
but it's not really even that.
And we go through a ton of hummus.
Lemon hummus, roasted red pepper and paprika hummus.
And the idea behind all my snacks is keep it gluten free,
keep it fairly natural, nothing overly processed,
nothing really packaged besides the Larabar, I know.
But make it plant based and nutritious.
I want nutrients, vitamins, antioxidants from every meal
that I take in.
For supper, these are two really good options,
because it talks a lot about the general approach
that we take for how to get protein in your diet
while you're eating plant based while you're at home.
I'm not a vegan, but at home, we try
to eat vegan based meals.
We use a ton of lentils, so this is a lentil soup
and we've got lentils and white rice.
Most meals that we have at home are some variation
of chick peas, white rice, lentils, vegetables,
That's how we get all of our vegetables.
but all of our carbs and all of our protein all in one.
We make dinner and then freeze all the extras
so that I can have the same thing at lunch.
Before bed, every evening, before bed,
I think that I have had the same snack
for probably 15 years.
A, I'm not pregnant, B, I think that I might be
the number one peanut butter eater all time
in the history of the world.
Because before bed, I have pickles, baby dills
and natural peanut butter, together.
Because before bed, I want to settle my stomach,
I want to make sure that I am digesting something,
so that I can get to sleep really easily.
So that's it.
That's what I eat most days.
And one of the biggest questions that I'm sure
you're wondering is Tarin, where do you get your protein?
I don't worry about it that much.
One of the reasons that I don't worry about it is this.
Where does the silverback gorilla that weighs 800 pounds
of raw stinky muscle get their protein?
They don't worry about it that much.
So I didn't worry about it that much either,
when we started eating more vegan.
And you know what? I feel great.
If I do feel like I'm craving a little bit of meat,
I'll have a little bit of meat.
And that'll happen maybe every two or three weeks.
And as far as eating gluten free?
I only do it because I recover a lot quicker,
I'm less sore, I weigh less and my Dad
is full on celiac, so I have a very high likelihood
of developing intolerance to gluten
if I continue to eat it.
All these recommendations aren't what's going
to work for everyone.
It's just what I've found works for me.
Keeps me healthy. Keeps me recovered.
Alright, Kim's shoveling right behind you.
You shovel while I become famous on the internet.
That's a good trade off.
Have a good day.