Nail Your Nutrition Podcast
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Nail Your Nutrition Podcast
24: Balancing Motherhood and Training + Running Faster After Having Babies with Meghann Featherstun, MS RD CSSD
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In this episode, we talk with sports dietitian, Meghan Featherstun about training and balancing motherhood, work, meal planning and family time. Meghan is a marathon runner and has dropped over an hour on her marathon time, even after having kids!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Sports nutrition requirements and how she got into sports nutrition
- How Meghan dropped over an hour between her first marathon and most recent marathon (3:58 to 2:57)
- The importance of a training group for accountability and how she is able to wake up at 4am for her training runs, even in this COVID era
- How she has adjusted training with two kids
- How family and support enables her training and how she's able to balance mom'ing, cooking, working, training and more!
- What recovery from two C Sections looked like and returning to training
- What training looks like leading up to a marathon
- Some of the biggest fueling challenges she sees among runners and athletes
- How she balances nutrition and running to avoid injury
- What her crosstraining and strength training looks like
- How her fueling philosophy has changed over time
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