Recovering Properly After Workout

It took me a good seven or eight years to figure out why I wasn’t racing and recovering properly, despite following all the advice in triathlon and running magazines.

Actually, you might argue that the reasons was precisely that- I was following all the advice!

It’s too confusing.

I began my path to sports-recovery enlightenment with The Paleo Diet for Athletes, by Dr. Loren Cordain and Joe Friel, back when I read it in 2005.  (By the way, if you’re an athlete and haven’t read this, it’s a must do!)

Since then, I’ve gotten the hang of what to eat, how much and when for any type of training, from my long endurance rides to shorter workouts done later in the day and even what to eat to bridge that grey area in the afternoon when you’re getting hungry but don’t want to head to that evening yoga or spin class with a full belly.

One of my favorite options is to make smoothies, both to prepare for as well as to recover from long training.  Tomorrow, when I run the 50 mile ultra in Catalina, you can be sure I’ll be filling my boots with great sources of clean carbohydrates when I cross the finish line…something like my recipe for a smoothie which is yours to peek at (click here) as a preview into Pocket Paleo Workout.

Joe Friel himself wrote the foreward, which meant the world to me!

Enjoy!