Last time I had taco bell before a run I never ran that fast before… to find a toilet.
Anthony Famigletti.
The guy is a pro and eats ice cream and pizza all the time (at least according to his documentary).
you should definitely put a woman on there! my husband and i have probably eaten 10000 calories between the two of us today and tomorrow we’re gonna swim, ride and run for a total of 6 hours. haha.
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you should definitely put a woman on there! my husband and i have probably eaten 10000 calories between the two of us today and tomorrow we’re gonna swim, ride and run for a total of 6 hours. haha.
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wait, you have a husband too? im not one to judge, but isnt that a bit difficult since you married a **girl **already.
Frank: I’ll ask Dean about the rest of his diet, but I don’t think a thin-styled crust pizza during a long run qualifies as the kind of 24/7 junk/fast food diet that we’ve been hearing about from some of the other posters here.
Also, the simple reason we’re looking for a guy is that the “fast runner/fast food diet” subject is one of four in this story we’re planning. The others are runners who are doing other thngs 'wrong"; and we already have two women subjects for those.
Off to do our last long Boston Marathon training run (three hours +), on a rainy New York morning here. I’m training with my good buddy Bobby, who also happens to be one of the area’s top IM triathletes. Thanks again to all of your who have taken the time to respond. We’ll certainly keep you posted (no pun intended) when the final decisions are made.
Frank: I’ll ask Dean about the rest of his diet, but I don’t think a thin-styled crust pizza during a long run qualifies as the kind of 24/7 junk/fast food diet that we’ve been hearing about from some of the other posters here.
Also, the simple reason we’re looking for a guy is that the “fast runner/fast food diet” subject is one of four in this story we’re planning. The others are runners who are doing other thngs 'wrong"; and we already have two women subjects for those.
Off to do our last long Boston Marathon training run (three hours +), on a rainy New York morning here. I’m training with my good buddy Bobby, who also happens to be one of the area’s top IM triathletes. Thanks again to all of your who have taken the time to respond. We’ll certainly keep you posted (no pun intended) when the final decisions are made.
Seems to me that the thing that the main thing people do “wrong” when they are on a “fast food” diet is they don’t run or exercise enough to burn off the calories they ingest (maybe they are a little low in the “well rounded” veggie department also). In fact, that is the problem most people on a “healthy” diet encounter also. Downing an entire pizza yourself is not particularly good or healthy if all you are doing for exercise is watching the basketball finals. There is hardly much health benefit to being sedentary and having a vegetarian diet either. Whatever one eats hardly offers any health problem if done as fuel for a 50 mile training run. As the mileage goes up it is hard to get in enough calories to even maintain one’s weight such that some of these “unhealthy”, calorie intense, foods almost become a necessity.
Just curious - what is the point of this article? I’m sure (hopefully) that it’s not to promote poor nutrition habits among runners? There is no doubt it is quite possible to be very athletic for awhile on a garbage diet, but it will catch up sooner or later in the long term.
" some of these “unhealthy”, calorie intense, foods almost become a necessity. "
Seriously Frank, how much nutrition did they teach you at med school?
Vegetarians have 45% less heart disease for folks under 65 yrs not to mention less reported cases of cancer and numerous other ailments. I’m only aware of two longevity studies. One gave vegetarians the edge by 3.6 yrs and the other was a study of Seventh Day Adventists who lived on average 7.3 yrs past the norm. One would think that the best combo for longevity would be an active lifestyle with a vegetarian diet and I could even throw in a couple of glasses of red wine a day for good heart health. I’m sure being a hard core runner or endurance athlete on a junk food diet wouldn’t be near as effective.
I’m not a vegetarian by the way (my daughter is) but don’t eat very much red meat and have been McDonald’s free for over a decade. Hopefully this will pay off.
Promote POOR nutrition? Why would we want to do that? As I wrote in the post, the idea is to get somebody who has a really poor diet (and an occassional thin crust pizza does not sound to me like a really poor diet), and match them up with a nutritionist, and take readers along through the process, so they can see how a nutritionist might wean the fast fast food runner “off” of junk food–what substitutes they suggest, etc.
" some of these “unhealthy”, calorie intense, foods almost become a necessity. "
Seriously Frank, how much nutrition did they teach you at med school?
Vegetarians have 45% less heart disease for folks under 65 yrs not to mention less reported cases of cancer and numerous other ailments. I’m only aware of two longevity studies. One gave vegetarians the edge by 3.6 yrs and the other was a study of Seventh Day Adventists who lived on average 7.3 yrs past the norm. One would think that the best combo for longevity would be an active lifestyle with a vegetarian diet and I could even throw in a couple of glasses of red wine a day for good heart health. I’m sure being a hard core runner or endurance athlete on a junk food diet wouldn’t be near as effective.
I’m not a vegetarian by the way (my daughter is) but don’t eat very much red meat and have been McDonald’s free for over a decade. Hopefully this will pay off.
First, read the quote you highlighted. One little story that Dean told in his talk was his having taken in 28,000 calories in one 3 day run (a run in which he probably burned 34,000 calories). I look forward to seeing the “healthy” diet that allows one to take in that kind of intake. I guess it is possible but what I said it is a lot easier to do using what are typically considered to be “unhealthy” foods.
Second, I think what constitutes a healthy or unhealthy diet is not quite so obvious as it seems. People who care to follow “healthy” diets probably also do other things that are also more healthy like not smoking, or exercising more, or a wide host of other things such that the improvements seen in those studies may or may not have much to do with the diet alone. Both the very low fat Pritikin diet and the very high fat Atkins diet claim all sorts of health benefits. My point was that an active life style combined with caloric intake balanced to that activity in order to avoid obesity is probably a much more important “lifestyle” change than simple diet alone.
I had a some eggs this morning for breakfast (a bag of Whoppers Chocolate covered eggs that is, I love easter) before my long run. I haven’t really raced in a couple years b/c of work and life in general (8:52 IM, 4:01 1/2 IM, 2:48 Marathon as a pacer for a group) but I’m getting back into running more again. I’m getting back in shape now b/c I signed up for both the Leadville 100 Run and Bike this summer. On average I eat Mexican food for a couple times a week, Chinese a couple more, Fill in the gaps with with some Wendys dollar menu items, Chips, Pizza, etc… I eat pretty much whatever I can find… junkfood or healthy food, and make my way from office to office all day eating out of all the candy bowls if I can’t find anything else. I used to try to eat healthier but all that happened was I lost weight and got sick more often. If I’m 180+lbs eating garbage I’m indestructible, if I’m 165lbs eating healthy I catch colds, viruses, have injuries, etc… I’d actually like to eat healthier but it seems like it’s always too much of a hassle for my lifestyle. Let me know if that fits the bill for what you are looking for.
Until about 2 weeks ago I ate fast food just about twice a day. I’m 6’6 and 183. I’m also a 27 year old software engineer. I think I can’t get enough calories if I don’t go to McDonalds all the time. My favorite thing is the number 1 (Big Mac) large size with double meat. Yes, double meat, that means four patties :).
I don’t think I’m fast enough for you though. I did a 3:37 marathon at CIM and my fastest 10k is 43 min back in november. Training for IM CdA in June right now and I’m probably a bit faster than that right now. I’ve been running for about a year and a half.
But I basically feel I can’t get enough calories if I don’t eat fast food or pizza often.
Matty Reed!
guy eats so much sugar its crazy.
Thanks, big guy. I give anyone who’s 6 foot 6 inches credit for finishing a marathon. That’s a lot of body mass to move 26.2 miles, much less in 3:37.
This seems an opportune time to tell you and all those on SlowTwitch that I think we now have enough candidates for this story. I thank you all for your responses and recommendations both on this public forum and privately. I will return when our top editors have decided the best of the worst fast fast foodies for our story. Take care and again, good luck with you all your training and with your summer race seasons. I’ll be running Boston next month (#4249), so if you’re in Hopkinton, say hello.
Oh and if you’ll pardon this self-promotional plug: I’m going to be speaking at Barnes and Noble at Emerson College, 114 Boylston Street, on Sunday, April 19 (day before the marathon) at 2 p.m. I’ll be talking about my book, “The Coolest Race on Earth: Mud, Madmen, Glaciers and Grannies at the Antarctica Marathon” which was published by Chicago Review Press in January. It’s about my experience running the 2005 edition of the Antarctica Marathon. So if you’re in Boston, tired of the expo by then, and looking for an interesting hour and half, I hope you’ll join us (and if you’re not going to Boston, check out the book, which is available on Amazon, at Barnes and Noble and Borders.) Would be great to see some folks from SlowTwitch!
Again, thanks for all your input on this story, and take care.
John Hanc