This episode is an interview with sports dietitian and endurance runner, Claire Shorenstein. Claire grew up not considering herself athletic, mostly focusing on music where she was a high level oboe player. When she decided to join her friend at xc practice one day, she fell in love with running. Claire got her Master’s of Music in Oboe Performance at Yale, and after that decided she didn’t want to become a professional musician. Her self-described identity crisis led her to do to a year long solo trip in South America, after which she moved to London and rediscovered her passion for running.

While getting into running and training for her first marathon, Claire became interested in sports nutrition. She ended up going back to school to get her Master’s in Nutrition from NYU and became a sports dietitian. She opened up her private practice, Eat for Endurance, and became a RED-S informed provider to work with endurance athletes like herself who struggle to meet the demands of training with their fueling.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it was like growing up involved in music and not considering herself an athlete, then finding cross country and sparking a love for running
• How an identity crisis after getting her Master’s of Music in Oboe Performance and deciding to stop playing the oboe led to a year of solo traveling in South America
• How traveling in a new country helped heal her relationship with food and body image after struggling with an eating disorder
• Why her experience with rediscovering running and getting into marathons inspired her to go back to school to become a dietitian
• How pivoting from road racing to trails and ultras helped her let go of expectations and find joy again in running after burning out from the road scene
• Her experience learning how to navigate fueling and GI issues for longer races
• What types of athletes she works with in her private practice and the most common nutrition challenges she sees endurance athletes face

You can learn more about working with Claire on her website at www.eatforendurance.com, and you can also find her on Instagram @eatforendurance or listen to her podcast, Eat for Endurance, wherever you get your podcasts!