All in a Day’s Eating: Nutrition for the Endurance Athlete
I can eat some food. Upon seeing my plate of food after a long day of working and training, some have remarked that I have the appetite of a football player. Or a triathlete. Either way. I carry a cooler of snacks with me almost everywhere I go. At work, my colleagues have yelled “SNACKS!” just to get my attention. Suffice to say, endurance athletes burn a lot of calories, so we need to eat a lot of calories. If I didn’t do any training or exercise, a woman my size (5’3″, 125 lbs) and age (39) would need a base of …