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Written by Tanya, Nutrition Nerd: Is the temperature rising where you live? In Virginia it seems like we went straight from Fall to Summer, skipping over both Winter and Spring this year. Over the past month we have experienced multiple days of 80+°F and even some days in the 90s! As we all know, the [...]

Written by Tanya, Nutrition Nerd: One of the most interesting developments in the sports nutrition world the past few years has been the “train low-compete high” concept. Low and high, referring to a glycogen-depleted or glycogen-loaded state, respectively, not “high” as in Urbandictionary definition! For decades, it has been known that glycogen (the principal storage form of [...]

Written by Tanya, Nutrition Nerd. Getting sick is the pits. It ruins training, eating, sleeping, working, etc. Unfortunately, there is evidence that athletes training hard or who have recently completed an endurance/ultra endurance event are at an increased risk of falling ill, with the most common illness being upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) [1, 2]. When [...]

Since the holiday of love, Valentine’s Day falls in February I felt this month would be an appropriate one to discuss the issue of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in runners. Chances are we can all list off a variety of people and things in our lives that we love, such as our spouse/significant other, family, pets, [...]

After taking a bit of a hiatus from nerdy, science-focused posts the past few weeks it is time to jump back in. Are you all ready? Today I want to share with all of you some information I recently came across. A friend of mine (Megan Sexton, MS and current Dietetic Intern) recently wrote a [...]