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So my friend Renee is right now as I write completed
T1: SWIM-TO-BIKE 7:45
T2: BIKE-TO-RUN 5:21
and is now running completing 11.9 miles so far of her 26.2 mile run. She’s been at it since 4am. Pretty heroic she is to me.
So I decided to do my blog on nutriiton after putting the body through such hard, strong endurance work like this.
I researched everyone of my favorite sites such as beginnertriathlete.com and trilife.com (Renee turned me onto them) and what they all state is that the body needs electrolyte, chlorophyll, and plant based proteins like hemp. OMG! guess what that is exactly what my cleanse is made up of. there’s a really good article at http://mbscycling.org/pdf/best%20foods%20for%20recovery.pdf.
They speak of all the foods. You know it’s not easy to get the body to get used to not needing to eat all the damn calories you had to eat to achieve the Ironman and now there’s no competition. The muscles need to recover and the calories need to be lower.
So i am going to interview her tomorrow and see how she feels. I am also going to interview a few trainers I know that have trained triathletes and see if there are some recommendations they have for building the strength and endurance – then we can take those exercises and make our bodies long and lean (I may be lean but long I am not…it takes work just for me to stay at 5 feet. On good days I make 5’1″) without needing to do the whole Ironman.
I know that my clients that I’ve trained for marathons have a tendency to find it hard to not eat so much and find them someselves gaining wait. And with the marathon coming you sure want to train hard but don’t want to get fat 
Until tomorrow when I interview my friend and hero Renee and one of my favorite trainers, Kevin.
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