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73. A Triathletes Journey in Overcoming Disordered Eating And Fueling Olympic Dreams · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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  Yeah, it eventually just became that it probably wasn't gonna
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  happen in running just because I couldn't handle that high
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  mileage. And when I found triathlon, I
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  still had the same goal. I just decided it was gonna take
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  a little bit longer. And so my goal would be to
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  compete at the Olympics in LA 2028 in the triathlon.
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  Hello and welcome to the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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  My name is Jenna Fisher and I'm here with my Co host Riley
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  Beatty. Today we're going to be talking
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  about to Annie Fuller about her Olympic journey and her career
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  as a professional athlete. Before we jump in to today's
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  episode with Annie, just a quick reminder that if you want to
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  spend more time with Jenna and myself and receive
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  individualized nutrition. Care we are currently.
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  Accepting one-on-one athletes to work with us in our sports
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  that you can apply to work with us today.
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  Riley, how's your week going? What's your high and low?
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  So this week, my high and my low actually is the same situation,
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  and it is kind of funny because it's going to show how things
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  can change in my life. Very quickly.
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  I'll start off with my high. Recently I did a community event
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  with a local soccer club. It was a female only soccer camp
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  and it was really fun because we got to do like a nutrition
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  station and I got to do some nutrition education with four
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  different groups, girls ranging from age 6 to 19.
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  I go to the fields and have my little station set up and I
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  start doing a couple, you know, sessions with the girls and I'm
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  getting really good feedback from the parents.
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  I'm feeling really good about myself.
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  The parents have been super nice.
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  One of the parents reached out and was like, hey, you did a
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  really good job. There was not like any Umm's or
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  things like that. And that meant a lot to me
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  because we, you and I have talked about how I started on
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  Instagram because I was so nervous about my public speaking
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  and I had a speech impediment growing up.
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  So it's been nice to know practice my nutrition on
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  Instagram and just all the work that I've been doing.
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  It's nice to have that, I guess, like being paid off.
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  But don't worry, I was humbled very, very quickly.
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  This is my low. One of the groups rotates in.
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  I give all the little girls a handout.
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  This is like girls aging. I don't know, like 6:00 to 8:00.
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  There's a picture of me on the handout because it's an RBSN
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  library product. I put our pictures on there.
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  I give my little nutrition spiel and then I go, what questions do
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  we have? You know, I asked the group if
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  there's any questions. A little girl raises her hand.
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  Great. Like you have a question about
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  nutrition. She looks at the handout and
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  goes, is this you? And I was like, yes.
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  She goes, it doesn't look like you.
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  And I was like, yeah, that's, you know, an older picture from
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  when I had my hair a little bit longer.
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  I have my hair up in like a ponytail with a soccer ball.
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  And she goes, it doesn't look like you.
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  And I was like, you know, I just had my hair up.
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  My hair was longer. She looks at me and goes, yeah,
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  you should not have cut it. No, she didn't.
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  And I got quickly humbled. I was feeling myself and I got
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  quickly humbled by a seven-year old.
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  Oh my gosh. OK well first of all let me just
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  say your hair looks so cute cut short, so I strongly disagree
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  with her style choices. So I now I can just think about
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  how I'm in for it with my currently five month old
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  daughter. I'm, I'm in for a world of pain
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  coming soon. I just was really humbled really
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  quickly because I was feeling myself.
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  I was feeling like, wow, they're, you know, they're, you
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  know, really interested in nutrition and they just wanted
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  to shave me from my hair. Your hair looks great, I like it
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  short. So don't listen to her.
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  What? About you What's your high in
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  your low? My high is that this week I
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  steps outside of my comfort zone as far as from an exercise
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  standpoint. It has been years since I've
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  been to Pilates or done any type of workout similar to that.
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  And a friend of mine here in Arizona invited me to go with
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  her. I was a little bit nervous
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  because it had been so long and I was like, Pilates is hard.
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  But I went with her the other morning.
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  It was so much fun. It was such a great workout.
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  I am very sore, but just as a reminder to everybody that even
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  when things feel scary, even when things feel new, sometimes
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  it can be a great outcome on the other side of that.
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  So that was just a fun thing to do.
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  I'm glad that I went my low. This is a story when I was
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  growing up I loved Mary Kate and Ashley.
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  Mary Kate and Ashley could do no wrong.
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  I had all of their movies. I would watch them as many times
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  as I possibly could and I probably can recite way too many
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  of the lines because I watched them way too many times.
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  Like I I could play the movie and say the whole script along
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  with it. Currently there is audio that's
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  slightly trending, I would say on Instagram that happens to be
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  a song that is used in the what I considered as a 10 year old,
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  an Oscar worthy performance by Mary Kate and Ashley.
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  The movie, if you aren't familiar, is Holiday in the Sun.
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  But anyway, this audio from the movie is now trending online and
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  it's just a song that they play in the movie during this
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  specific scene. And I can picture see here the
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  entire movie sequence whenever I see somebody's real pop up that
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  has that audio with it. And this song has been seared
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  into every corner of my brain and I can't shut it off.
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  I'm not gonna sing it. I don't even I mean like it's by
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  this, like, can you bopper like girl band laying down at night.
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  I'm like laying there like humming along.
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  I'm like, Oh my gosh, like trying to read a book and I'm
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  hearing it like I'm trying to read and I'm it's it's nonstop.
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  It's nonstop. So thank you, Mary Kate and
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  Ashley, and thank you Instagram for making whatever that
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  happened on. You have to look up the name of
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  the song now and let everybody know and probably play it on
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  Instagram so that way people can just really know that song is
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  from my childhood. Is Holly in the sound the one
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  with Megan Fox in it? Yep, and the the scene is with
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  her in it. So the girl band is playing the
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  song and she's walking through trying to find her summer
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  romance Megan Fox's. So if you've seen Holiday in the
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  Sun, that is the scene. Another low just for our
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  generation is the fact that most people that are growing up do
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  not know who Mary Kate and Ashley are, but they know who
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  Elizabeth Olsen is. Yeah, you're right.
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  So they don't know. They don't know them as Mary
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  Kate and Ashley. They know them as Elizabeth
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  Olsen. Sisters, sisters, wow, that is a
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  low for not just the week, but the month, the year, maybe the
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  decade, because you're really missing out if you didn't want
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  to be the third. Olsen Twin Riley I know we're
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  both really excited for today's episode and for everybody to
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  hear it. You have worked with Annie for
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  quite a bit of time now, so I know that she's really excited
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  to share her story about fueling.
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  Annie is a collegiate runner who has now turned to triathlete in
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  a Los Angeles 2028 Olympic hopeful.
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  We're super excited to share this interview with all of you.
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  Annie, welcome to the podcast. Thanks.
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  Hi, I'm glad to be here. And we have a ton of questions
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  for you, but before we get into some of those, can you share a
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  little bit about your background, kind of how you
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  started in this career and like how you started in running and
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  how it's evolved over the years? Yeah, so my dad was an NCAA
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  track coach. And so I kind of grew up in this
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  setting, going to his practices and asking his guys that he
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  coached to race all the time. And when my parents would go to
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  5K's, I would always tag along and do the fun runs.
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  And I just really like, I enjoyed it, which was kind of
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  weird for a kid to like enjoy running.
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  Kind of also played everything I could growing up.
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  I never specialized in it right away or anything.
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  Played like soccer, softball, basketball.
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  And I didn't really only run actually until college, but
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  eventually like the higher mileage in college kind of got
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  me in a little spot where I needed to cross train a lot to
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  supplement that. And so I eventually found
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  triathlon and I instantly fell in love with that.
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  How long have you been competing in triathlons now?
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  It's been about 3 years I would say maybe even four.
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  It's the the time has kind of got gotten away from me a little
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  bit. I feel like I'm like a lot older
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  than I think I am sometimes. What is your hope with your
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  career as a triathlete? I know that Riley and I are kind
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  of aware of that, but like, where do you want to go with
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  your professional athletic career?
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  I've always dreamed of going to the Olympics since I've been
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  younger. When I was younger, my mom used
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  to call me 2020 because I had really wanted to go to the
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  Olympics, like out of College in 2020, which I think is kind of
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  funny because it was then in 2021 because of COVID, Yeah, It
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  eventually just became that it probably wasn't going to happen
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  in running just because I couldn't handle that high
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  mileage. And when I found triathlon, I
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  still had the same goal. I just decided it was going to
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  take a little bit longer. And so my goal would be to
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  compete at the Olympics in LA 2028 in the triathlon.
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  That is super exciting. I would love for you to share a
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  little bit more about maybe your fueling dirty.
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  I know that we've worked closely together, but I think you have a
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  really an amazing story and I would love for others to hear
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  about it. In high school, I was actually
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  extremely terrible about what I put in my body.
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  I feel like that's kind of normal, Like you're still a kid,
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  you're still growing and going through things and can kind of
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  just eat whatever. But I remember I would eat like
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  Pizza Hut and Little Caesars and Wendy's and stuff like that
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  honestly daily, and I was still running fine.
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  I literally ate a chili dog one time before the Two Mile in high
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  school. I got away with it, but I think
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  I definitely could have done a lot of things better and
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  probably performed a little better.
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  Looking back on it. It got into a really great
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  college and was able to compete at MSU.
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  I think when I got to college, that stuff kind of started to
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  catch up to me a little bit, and I really needed to be a little
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  more diligent about what I was eating to fuel myself and fuel
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  my workouts. And my stomach just couldn't
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  handle stuff like a chili dog anymore before racing.
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  And so back then they didn't really teach you much in the
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  NCAA. I think think they're getting a
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  little bit better with it. I was just kind of ignorant
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  almost to what I should be putting in my body as an athlete
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  that's trying performed at a high level.
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  I kind of started to get better at like nutrient timing and just
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  like eating more of like healthier foods.
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  Eventually it just became like more of an obsession than it
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  should have been. And so I guess to answer your
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  question, I've gotten better for long runs in the NCAA.
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  Like I would literally go wake up, run 10 to 12 miles and not
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  fuel myself with like anything. And now as a triathlete, like
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  that's crazy to think about. Triathlon itself has been
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  really, really tricky to figure out fueling, which is why I've
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  been working with Wiley because it's super easy to underestimate
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  how much I'm actually needing, especially on like really high
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  training days and kind of like what exactly I need.
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  Another hard thing is having so many workouts to get done
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  sometimes in a short period of time, since I have a job, and
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  kind of figuring out what foods just work during that short
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  period of time I have between, for example, like a swim and
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  bike, and just seeing what works with the stomach constraints,
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  the time constraints. Fueling is all about practicing
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  and making sure that we're getting in enough.
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  So do you feel like that's a big thing that you've worked on is
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  making sure that not only do you have the right foods, but at the
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  right times? Yeah, I think one thing that's
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  really helped me with that is when I leave the house to go
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  workout, I always have stuff in my bag.
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  Like no matter what it is like if, if I'm going for an easy
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  like 45 minute swim, I always have it there just in case I for
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  some reason need or I'm like stuck waiting on the pool deck
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  for longer than I thought it would be to get Elaine.
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  Things like that. Because I there's so many times
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  where I'll like have forgotten to bring food and it really I
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  can tell it just effects how my workouts go when that kind of
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  thing happens. I love that because we always
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  talk about like you want to have a plan A, but if we don't have a
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  plan A, we need to have a Plan B.
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  So we need to have something, a backup option and like throwing
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  things in your bag like you just mentioned is such an easy way to
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  make sure that we're setting ourselves up for success when we
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  have all these other things to worry about.
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  Definitely. What are some of those smacks
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  that you've been adding in your bag?
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  So I gotta keep a variety. I would say I have like a couple
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  Dells. I have a couple like carb based
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  granola bars and then I have protein based granola bars.
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  So like they're all for different things.
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  Obviously like if I'm done with my workouts for the day, but
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  like won't be home for a little bit.
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  Like I'll go ahead and eat that protein bar after my workouts if
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  I'm done, but like fits between have something that has more
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  carbs, which is usually like a chewy granola bar or I'll have a
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  gel but for like a swim or if I'm going from like a bike to a
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  run, like taking that gel. Speaking of gels, those are one
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  of the things that we think of as like an intra run fuel source
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  too. Knowing that you are an Olympic
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  hopeful and you have longer training sessions, what's your
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  strategy for intra training fueling?
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  I would say that's something that I've been working on with
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  Riley, just getting more in when I'm working out.
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  And that's something that I've really, really struggled with
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  from going from just being a runner to being a triathlete is
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  when we're running and especially in the NCAA, like
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  we're not bringing fuel with us on our runs.
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  And so just getting my stomach used to like taking in extra,
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  extra food while I'm trying to perform at a high level has been
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  a little tough to get used to. I would say like I haven't
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  really figured it out 100%. Like I couldn't give you like,
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  oh, this is my go to for like a 2 hour ride.
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  This is my go to for like a workout.
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  This is my go to for a race. I'm still trying to get that
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  figured out 'cause it has been a little bit of a transition.
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  Even though I've been doing this sport for three years, I would
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  say I really haven't started to properly fuel myself into till
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  this year. So it's been a little bit of a
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  struggle. I think I'm slowly starting to
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  get that kind of thing figured out and like see what works for
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  me and like notice changes when when I take a gel compared to
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  when I don't and end up bonking on a ride and don't want to make
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  it. Home so I think.
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  Something that you've done a really good job at is kind of
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  changing your mindset to having your fuel, especially, you know,
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  those carbohydrates like around your training or during your
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  training as another like tool and your and your another weapon
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  in your arsenal, which I think that was a really big mindset
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  shift for you. Yeah.
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  Definitely just kind of like the education I think is what has
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  really been able to like give me that mindset shift in college,
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  like I was saying, where it's getting better, but I wish I had
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  like more resources and more just like awareness of how
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  important like fueling your body for what you're doing is.
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  Even in other sports, you still need to eat a certain way to
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  perform at your best level. And I just think that I really
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  could have done a lot better job and probably like performed
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  better in college had I had I had that like knowledge and
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  education. Because it also just it gives
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  you more clarity and confidence to fuel yourself in that way.
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  If you know OK like eating more is always going to be better
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  than eating less. Oh, Annie, I love that.
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  What are some of the performance benefits that you have seen from
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  these changes that you've made with your feeling?
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  Yeah, I mean, I think like I said, just noticing small
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  differences when I'm, for example, like out on a like a
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  longer bike ride of actually being able to make it home
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  without being miserable. In the last hour, I've noticed
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  if I'm doing a hard workout, I'll have a gel if I time it
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  correctly. As as soon as like it's working
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  for me, I kind of like, I realize in like that higher
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  intensity because I feel I feel so much better.
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  And I know it's not like it's not my legs, it's not anything
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  else. Like you know your body.
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  I know it's that so like this energy is definitely coming from
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  what I just put inside my. Body going from running to being
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  a triathlete, what was that like for you?
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  Because I can't imagine picking up a new sport and from what I
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  understand, swimming was a little bit newer to you.
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  So how did you kind of overcome some of those challenges that
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  come along with like picking up an entirely new type of
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  exercise? Yeah.
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  In regards to just learning the sport, swimming has been
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  definitely been the tougher of this utility learn.
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  It's just so technique based and just requires so much extra time
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  and just like yards and yards and yards or meters and meters
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  and meters in the pool. The thing with swimming is the
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  technique. If you if you can't get the
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  technique, then you're not gonna swim faster.
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  And it's crazy because you can have such a high amount of
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  fitness, but if you fail to like get those like neural
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  connections and really like learn how to actually swim,
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  freestyle in a way that's gonna efficiently get you to where
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  other people are at. It's like nearly impossible to
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  stay with the people that are, you know, like the top of the
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  world. That's definitely been really
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  tricky. I would be very confused when I
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  was like first learning how to swim and some 80 year old lady
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  was passing me in the lane next to me when I'm working really
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  hard and super fit. But I just, I didn't have the,
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  the form down yet. And so I think it's just really
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  something that everybody always says, Oh, like it takes time.
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  And they say that about like lots of different things, but it
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  really did just take like a, a lot of time to kind of get it
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  figured out. But I think I'm, I'm most of the
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  way there. It definitely still could always
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  improve, just like I can always improve with my feeling.
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  But it's, it's been a long road and I'm I'm pretty happy with
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  how it's going so far. So.
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  As it relates to feeling, I'm gonna say that again.
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  Sorry, I'm going really loud. Can you guys hear echo?
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  I've heard one the whole time, so I don't know how this is
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  going to go. I'm hoping that it just uploads
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  all the individual audio and we see how it turns out, but we're
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  going to work with it. So as it relates to feeling any,
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  if somebody's at the beginning of their nutrition journey or
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  maybe is listening to this and thinks I'm, you know, a
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  triathlete or I'm a runner and I want to be better, but maybe I'm
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  scared to introduce some fueling or some nutrition during my
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  training. I guess.
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  What is your advice for those athletes?
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  I think it's tricky because I'm still scared sometimes.
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  I think that the thing that is the trickiest is that once your
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  relationship with food takes a hit, it's really, really hard to
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  develop a good relationship with it.
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  And so I think it's really just that mindset shift of the
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  education and giving. Like I would give them you guys,
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  I would tell them you should really work with someone who's
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  qualified to explain to you why, why fueling yourself properly is
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  going to be the best possible thing for you.
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  Because like I said, it's it's really hard to kind of shift
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  your mindset when that relationship with food has been
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  compromised. Almost like learning to swim and
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  working towards healing that relationship with food and
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  making sure you are properly fueled.
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  Just like you said, it takes time and it takes effort and it
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  takes dedication to get there. But to watch you continue to
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  kind of make that progress both performance wise and fueling
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  wise, is amazing to watch just from an outsider.
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  'S perspective Thank you. Yeah, I mean, I think you
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  definitely nailed it. It's it's something that it's
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  still taking time. It's not, it's not 100%.
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  It's getting there exactly like swimming.
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  I think once it gets there that it things are going to start to
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  go a lot better. And I think once all the stars
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  kind of align, that's, that's when I'll really start to
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  perform at my best. And so, yeah, I think it's, it's
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  super important to just kind of, I know it's really, really hard
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  and really scary, but you will get there.
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  Like I'm not even there yet. I have days where I'm scared
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  too. But there will be days that
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  you're not scared anymore. Well, thank you for sharing that
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  and getting vulnerable. I think people think that this
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  is like a lot easier than it is sometimes.
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  And so then I think people maybe get stressed out when they're in
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  this journey themselves and it's not as easy as I think it's
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  going to be and they take it really badly.
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  Yeah, I could definitely see why that would happen.
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  I think I might have been the same way like in my first first
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  year of like kind of trying to develop a better relationship
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  with food or just honestly like eat more.
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  I was really confused why someone would be telling me to
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  eat more when my goal isn't to eat more, it's to lose weight.
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  With how much I've learned working with nutritionists
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  throughout the years and then eventually working with Riley is
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  just that sometimes you need to eat more to even lose that
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  weight. And so if that is.
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  Your goal if you're not an athlete trying to perform at
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  their highest level in season, if your goal is to lose weight
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  in the offseason, it's still sometimes you need to eat more
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  and you need to eat more of different things that you
• 20:37
  wouldn't think that you should be eating.
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  It just goes against everything we've taught like are taught in
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  society. It's like the idea that you if
• 20:44
  you eat more, it will be a better situation.
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  Yeah, definitely. It's a very interesting concept.
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  But like ultimately, I, I've told Riley this several times is
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  that for me, like honestly, if I weighed 180 lbs as a 510 runner,
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  but I was running the way I wanted to run, I wouldn't care
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  at all. Like I think that's something
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  that a lot of athletes don't really grasp is that like the
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  scale does not matter if you're performing the way that you want
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  to perform. And that's that's basically like
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  fueling to perform is just getting to that point where OK,
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  yeah, I'm this weight, but this is the weight that's going to
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  make me the best athlete that can be.
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  The skill doesn't define you as an athlete or as a person.
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  All right, Annie, so we have some fun questions for you.
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  We ask everybody this at the end of the podcast, but it is eating
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  more carbs podcast so we have to ask what your favorite
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  carbohydrate is. I would say, I guess it's not
• 21:37
  just a carbohydrate, but I really love a good pizza and now
• 21:41
  it has other stuff on it, but it is like essentially like a huge
• 21:45
  source of carbs. I would say if I had to choose a
• 21:47
  favorite, it would be that. But my go to is always pasta
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  when it comes to like around competition or around like a big
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  like training event that I have or something.
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  Just because it's very consistent and consistent in
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  like all places. And like, if I'm training in a
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  different country or something, I can always just count on a
• 22:08
  good bowl of pasta. What is your favorite pre
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  workout fuel? It's super boring and kind of
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  probably a boring answer when you're talking to like endurance
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  athletes, but probably oatmeal. It's again, just very safe.
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  I would say that's my favorite pre workout but definitely not
• 22:25
  my favorite like breakfast by any means.
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  Why is that a boring answer? That's a great answer.
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  I don't know, I I like it, but honestly like working with you
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  and working with like a nutritionist.
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  Like I've found so many other like fun options to eat for
• 22:45
  breakfast. And I'm not someone that I like
• 22:47
  consistency and I like plans for sure, but I really don't like
• 22:51
  eating the same thing every day. And Oatmeal's kind of blend and
• 22:55
  can definitely get boring, but you've definitely helped me
• 22:57
  spice it up so. Oatmeal's good though 'cause it
• 22:59
  is kind of like pasta where you can like you can always bring it
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  with you for travel, like you can throw in your bag and all
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  that stuff. Yeah, yeah, I definitely do that
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  quite often. What about your favorite post
• 23:09
  workout? I really love a good Fair life
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  chocolate milk. That's definitely the only
• 23:15
  answer I could give you. And then we asked this question
• 23:18
  that has turned out to be the hardest question that we asked.
• 23:21
  It has nothing to do with nutrition at all, but what is
• 23:23
  your favorite pair of? Shoes.
• 23:24
  Other than my running shoes, probably my air forces.
• 23:29
  It's just the shoe that I wear pretty much all the time if I'm
• 23:32
  going out anywhere. But I have gotten really into
• 23:35
  UFOs lately because they're super comfortable and since I
• 23:38
  have like a foot issue I had to find something that number one
• 23:42
  worked for Arizona when it's insanely hot outside and my feet
• 23:46
  are like sweating all the time in shoes if they're not sandals.
• 23:50
  So I have I have really enjoyed UFOs and like I can wear them
• 23:53
  around the house too. So not an UFOs ad, but I really
• 23:57
  like them. Not sponsored.
• 24:00
  Any during these conversations, you've talked a lot about how
• 24:02
  Riley has helped you and how working with someone really
• 24:04
  helps promote your performance from a fueling perspective.
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  But that's something that you do as well as help other athletes
• 24:10
  reach their potential. So what is the best way for
• 24:12
  people to find you, follow you, reach out to you, or to just
• 24:15
  simply follow along with your Olympic journey?
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  Yeah, I would say that the platform I use the most is
• 24:20
  definitely Instagram. So if anyone's interested in
• 24:23
  either you're new to triathlon and want to learn more about it
• 24:26
  or an experienced runner and just need some guidance
• 24:30
  coaching, feel free to just send me a message on Instagram or
• 24:33
  there's also a link in my bio that you can check out and I'll
• 24:36
  definitely get back to you. Annie under score Fuller.
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  We will leave all of Annie's information below so that way
• 24:41
  you can easily find her on Instagram, reach out to her and
• 24:43
  follow her. Thank you so much, Annie, for
• 24:45
  being on this episode. We so appreciate you sharing all
• 24:47
  about your fueling journey and your running career into your
• 24:50
  triathlete career. If you have questions for Riley
• 24:52
  and I can always leave them below or you can find us on
• 24:54
  Instagram, we're at the More Carbs podcast.
• 24:56
  You can find Riley on Instagram at Riley Baby Nutrition and you
• 24:59
  can find me at Jenna Fisher Nutrition.
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  Thank you so much for listening to this episode.
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  Please make sure you write, subscribe and review.
• 25:05
  And as always, remember to eat more carbs.