Running on Veggies
Plant-Powered Recipes for Fueling and Feeling Your Best
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
More than 100 delicious, nourishing, and mostly plant-based recipes for peak athletic performance, from the triathlete and nutrition coach behind the popular Running on Veggies blog
After finishing treatment for stage III Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of fifteen, Lottie Bildirici fell in love with running and completely transformed her lifestyle with a mindful approach to eating and exercise. As an Adidas nutrition coach, she has led teams around the globe to healthier mindsets by leveraging their diets for enhanced performance. In her first book, she shares these recipes and tips to help fellow athletes eat well, feel well, and live life to its fullest potential.
Running on Veggies contains more than one hundred mostly plant-based, dairy-free, meat-free (with five pescatarian) recipes to maximize workouts and enhance nutrition to perform at peak levels. Indulgent recipes that leave you feeling satisfied and energized include Almond Berry Overnight Oats, Energized Mocha Crunch Smoothie, Thai Crunch Salad, Pesto Farro Risotto with Sugar Snap Peas and Asparagus, Date Bites, and many more.
In addition to Bildirici's recipes, Running on Veggies also features recipes contributed by world-class athletes including Kara Goucher, Colleen Quigley, Emma Coburn, and many more. With pre-run and recovery recipes, a two-week peak performance plan, and supplemental sidebars throughout, it's designed to be inclusive of all levels of athletic performance, from novice to expert.
Running on Veggies is the guide athletes and the rest of us need to fuel up and kickstart a lifetime of healthy habits, one delicious meal at a time.
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Adidas nutrition coach Bildirici shows readers how to put their best foot forward in the kitchen and beyond in this vibrant debut collection of plant-forward recipes. When she was diagnosed with cancer at age 14, Bildirici took to running as a way to cope and quickly found, after switching to a nutrient-dense diet, that what she ate directly impacted both her body and endurance. Informed by the author's health journey and the eponymous blog that grew from it—and supplemented with a number of recipes from world-class athletes—Bildirici's book focuses less on what's "healthy" and "unhealthy" and instead emphasizes the importance of using minimally processed ingredients and "lots of vegetables." Most of the offerings are plant-based, with a handful of pescatarian options—including a protein-packed fish taco bowl recipe from professional mountain bike racer Kate Courtney. A meal guide for endurance athletes offers such snacks as roasted garlic green hummus and an anti-inflammatory beet mango smoothie, while a standout breakfast marinates carrots in a caper brine mixture for a smoky loxlike flavor on toast. Other innovative fare includes a jicama and radicchio chopped salad (jicama's great for the gut, Bildirici notes) and a pecan-crusted halibut with an antioxidant-rich pomegranate glaze. Way more than just fuel, these recipes are as loaded with nutrients as they are flavor.