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Nutrition for Running

If "You are what you eat", then do you also "Run what you eat?" We don't know, but we do know everything from our general health to not bonking during a race is nutritionally influenced. So we asked three excellent runners with very different backgrounds to share what they do.

Lisa Goldsmith is known for her 10 km to ˝ Marathon racing, Charles Corfield for his ultrarunning, and Matt Carpenter succeeds at all distances.

"Once in a while I throw in some veggies. Pretty simple stuff. Variety to me means perhaps a different shaped pasta …"

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