The Best Recovery Food For Runner's?

French Fries & Strawberries

The reason that French Fries are one of the best recovery foods for runners is the salt and potassium they contain. When you run a lot, you burn away all your salt and potassium. I found out that I was potassium deficient in highschool from an EKG reading, it shows in the T wave. So, I started eating fries after cross-country practice. Strawberries have more potassium than bananas, which is a fun fact and yummy snack. Therefore, runners should eat lots of salted fries and strawberries!

Here is a recipe link for fries!

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/perfect-french-fries-recipe2-2120420

You can dip the strawberries into chocolate chips melted and mixed with a little vegetable oil!

Blend a handful of strawberries, with ice and a scoop of vanilla muscle milk powder!

Drinking mineral water really helps me too! My doctor + cardiologist had to write me a note for college to always be allowed to have giant bottles of water and granola bars, because I really need to feel welcome to eat and drink for my health (unless someone wants me to faint or have a notch in my t-wave). Doctor's note or not, it’s illegal to tell someone not to eat or drink, but what an ordeal I went through I have to say. This girl will never be willing to live a life without a copious amount of water, fruit, almonds and granola bars. I would even have to tell my boyfriend we would need to break up if he was offended by my water drinking and granola bar munching. In reality, I can drink whatever water I want to drink and I do not care what anybody else thinks. I work hard for my water, and if I ever let a man buy a bottle of water for me they should feel honored and privileged to do so, or I would just get it myself not really caring either way. You cannot share a life with someone who will not let you have water in a water bottle, it is pathetic how happy I would have been if they gave me a bottle of ice cold Poland Springs water, it was a low in life; water felt like diamond earrings. That’s whom I wanted to date in college when my parents wanted me with a shark, my aunt had a man in a sweater vest for me, I stopped seeing the engineer in NY being in Maine for school and all; it’s funny what I did to not date someone else I did not want to meet for dinner or breakfast even, the family friends I would never talk to no matter how much their mom’s asked… :) . We went through a phase where someone did not like my reusable water bottle, or buying bottled water, and there was a standstill of what type of water I should really drink. I found the most horrible person who told me drinking water is pretentious and not to do it, could not have made me more miserable. What should you drink out of? At the very least, everyone should have a partner who gives them as much water in water bottles as their heart-desires, and everyone can eat/drink in two hour lectures, especially if there is a medical condition permitting eating/drinking whenever you need to. Before that chapter of life, I never fathomed the controversy that could exist over possessing or consuming granola bars and water. You need the right fuel when your body hits a low in something like salt, sugar, or minerals. My blood pressure and heart rate can get so low if something is not balanced in my body, I’m very particular. I had to take 10mg of midodrine three times a day for years, so I would not faint. For a school, or a guy, or a friend of a friend to tell me not to eat and drink is outrageous (all connected). Eating and drinking should be a non-issue, and my doctor who feels like I am their prodigy was more than happy to write that permission slip for me to have whatever I want all the time. I have to tell you, being told not to eat or drink is a time I came really close to actually filing the suit I can file, without doing a mediation, stone cold me came out.

Every runner should do a stress-test with a cardiologist to make sure they’re healthy, like I don’t really need a cardiologist, but I do a stress-test every couple years just to be safe. Before running a marathon for the first time, you should have a stress-test with a cardiologist. Cardiologist’s can do your vo2 max too, which is more me now than a stress-test but baiscally the same set-up.

My aunt started shipping me cases of the most expensive largest sized water bottles from Costco, as a joke after all that went down. It’s still a joke, and a little bit of a morbid time to look back on. :)

It is annoying dating someone who never wants to pay for dinner or bottled water without holding it over your head. I don’t really care about spending money on my own things or treating ‘being the man on a date.’ I just matter of factly don’t need to be treated like that, if it’s between feeling nice or like I’m with the cheapest person on the planet who does not have to be, what does he think I’ll choose? I’m not going to go without something, and I am also not going to feel weird about someone else getting it for me. Even with friends, we switch every round of drinks, and if we are twenty cents off from being equal we let it go; someone buys pizza and someone buys drinks, someone brings the movie, that sorta thing. No one has to feel as uncomfortable as possible going out, having bottled water for the day, or having normal snacks in normal places. That’s my blog story. The moral is, don’t be the worst! My girl advice is: EVERY woman is a woman of privilege, so it is ALWAYS more appropriate to go all out with the highest standard than to treat someone as horribly as possible, you just never know (they could have an island of corgis by the ocean, and you would never know by first glance, however a girl should never actually need to have one).

Lindsey Stirling came out with a new video of Angels We Have Heard On High. This put me in an especially good mood to have in my Christmas mix!

Even though it’s old, I think Pentatonix is really funny yet pretty.