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Blender Wars

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By Greg In January my wife sent me to Costco to buy a paper shredder to protect ourselves from the growing problem of identity theft. While walking through Costco I noticed a crowd gathered at a demonstration, where a clean cut young man was serving everything from frozen ice cream to piping hot tortilla soup…

Motherhood-The Nutritional Sacrifice

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By Debbie Perry As Published in Rocky Mountain Running. Being a mom is exhausting!   So many hats to wear, work to do, children to look after, places to drive, service to give and sleep to give up.  The very nature of rearing children is a physical and emotional drain, but ever wonder why you may…

What To Eat After A Workout

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By Debbie Perry Your post run, bike or swim recovery habit is the first and most important nutrition habit to establish! After a typical hour run you have drained about 100-175 grams of carbohydrate from your muscle tissue, crushed red blood cells from the force of impact, torn muscle fibers and connective tissues, caused inflammation,…

Long Run Strategies and Planning

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by Scott Dickey – SLRC Employee Long runs can be quite daunting.  Not just the mileage all at once, but the logistics that go into to making it a successful, stress free run.  With a little planning, your long runs can become a positive experience that you will no longer dread. The first thing you…

What’s for breakfast before a long run?

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By Debbie   After all the training leading up to your big event, the last mistake you want to make race morning is with your pre-race nutrition. There are some athletes who decide that they want to skip all the confusion and try not eating. While this may work for a morning 5k, it gets more…

To Gel or not to Gel

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That is the question By Rhielle Now that the marathon and half marathon season is drawing nigh, each of us has to ask ourselves, the inevitable question, “Do I have to take those things that my friends tell me are disgusting versions of vanilla frosting?”  As an employee at SLRC and a runner for 12…

1st Video – Mixed Green Salad and Dressing

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We are trying to add video clips of all kinds of things to our new website (launching March 1st). So for our first attempt at a video, we will put together this recipe that relates to a recent post on salads. Now, keep in mind that, this is a very rough copy, but we would…

pHinding nutritional balance

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Calories in versus calories out. That is usually the first thing that comes to mind when athletes go about changing their daily eating habits for the better. Sometimes one might even go a little farther in order to perform better and think about how much protein they should be eating, or healthier fats, or the…

Going Gluten Free, Is it for you?

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AS PRINTED IN TRIHIVE MAGAZINE OCT-DEC 2009 Not many people like the thought of giving up something they love to eat. But, what if what you are eating is making you sick, slowing you down or stopping the fat loss process. Ultimately, food should do the opposite. It should nourish, revitalize, invigorate, heal and speed…

Protein shakes for endurance athletes

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BJ POWERS UP HIS OWN SHAKE. NOTHING LIKE WORKING OUT IN ORDER TO EAT YOUR FOOD! If there is one thing that you should change about your current eating/post workout recovery habits, it would be the addition of protein shakes. A protein shake accomplishes many objectives at the same time. First and foremost, it gives…
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