Athlete Nutrition Profile - Professional Runner and Vegan Athlete, Sage Canaday

Welcome to Episode of 71 of the Eat for Endurance Podcast, featuring pro-runner, coach, and plant-based athlete, Sage Canaday. Sage has been running for over 20 years, and is known for his “any surface any distance” motto. He started out his professional career on the roads, and is a 2-time US Olympic Trials qualifier in the Marathon and a top 20 overall finisher at both the Boston and Chicago Marathons. In 2012, he pivoted to mountain ultra trail running, with many wins and podiums in the years that followed.

Sage was raised as a lacto-ovo vegetarian. He experimented with adding meat, poultry and fish to his diet at various points throughout his life, but he found that this “foreign cuisine”  didn’t appeal to his tastebuds or seem to offer any noticeable performance benefits in his N=1 experiment. So he concluded that it wasn’t for him, and ultimately decided to became a vegan instead. We discuss what led him to take this next step, and how he has fueled his long and diverse running career while following a vegetarian/vegan diet. You’ll hear him talk about a typical day of eating, his go-to performance nutrition strategies,  how all of this has evolved over his 20+ years of running, and much more.

And lastly, because I always like to put things in context, we recorded this interview in early June. He’s had a busy summer of training, and will be running TDS by UTMB on Aug 28th. We hope you have an amazing time in Chamonix, Sage!

Links & Resources:

• Sage’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Vo2maxProductions
• Sage’s coaching business: https://higherrunning.com/
• Follow Sage on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter

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