Are you starting to train for your next marathon like we are? Well then, check out how we're setting up our vegan meal plan for marathon training!
VEGAN MEAL PLAN FOR MARATHON TRAINING
It's a new year of marathon training, which means we're gearing up for all the lifestyle changes we're going to be implementing! One of those massive changes; our diet. While we usually try to eat healthy, during marathon training we take it up another notch! Of course, we're staying entirely vegan during our marathon training, but we're making sure to add in more healthy carbohydrates and plant-based protein into our diet.
OUR FAVORITE VEGAN MARATHON TRAINING FOODS
As we mentioned before, a huge part of marathon training is introducing more healthy carbohydrates into our diet. It's so important for recovery to include plenty of carbohydrates into your diet! So, our favorites to add into our vegan meal plan for marathon training are sweet potatoes, brown rice, and oats.
Adding in Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are loaded with so many nutrients that are key in muscle recovery and restoring glycogen stores. We try to recover with sweet potatoes in a couple different ways. Here are our top three sweet potato recovery recipes:
Cajun Sweet Potato Fries ⚫️ Orange Sweet Potato Smoothie ⚫️ Sweet Potato & Pumpkin Bisque
The best part of Fall marathon training is that we get to eat all those amazing Fall foods! Including lots of Thanksgiving leftovers! Have you planned your menu for Thanksgiving yet? We're almost finished with ours. Check out our review of Vegan Roasts here! To give you some more ideas , check out some of our vegan Thanksgiving menus:
- Vegan Thanksgiving Tips & Tricks
- Plant-Based Thanksgiving Recipes to Impress Non-Vegans
- Classic Vegan Thanksgiving Menu
And now for what I ate in a day for marathon training. Let's do this!
WHAT WE ATE TO TRAIN FOR A MARATHON
Breakfast
When we train for marathons in the Fall we like to start our day with something warm! After all, Chicago temperatures start to dip, especially in the morning, so we need to warm ourselves up!
Mediterranean Tofu Scramble
Our Other Favorite Breakfast Recipes for Marathon Training
Protein Breakfast Bar ⚫️ Breakfast Tacos ⚫️ Savory Baked Oatmeal
Mid-morning Snack
Something we love to do for snacks is to make huge batches of our favorite munchies and eat them throughout the week! For this reason, energy balls are the best option.
Chocolate Protein Balls ⚫️ Apple Cinnamon Balls ⚫️ Peanut Butter Chocolate Balls
Lunch
Lunch is the most important part of our day during training. We have to make sure to make something healthy, filling, and something that will fuel our running.
Smoked Apple Stuffed Potato
This apple stuffed potato is a perfect way to recover from a long morning of marathon training! It's filled with healthy carbohydrates, healthy fats, and a ton of flavor!
Our Other Vegan Lunch Options
Corn & Potato Chowder ⚫️ Spinach Protein Burger ⚫️ Chili Con Carne
Mid-afternoon snack
If we're being honest, sometimes we crave sweets during marathon training. So, on a particularly hard training day, we usually have a bit of a treat in the afternoon.
Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies
Dinner
For dinner we're watching football and chowing down on some buffalo chick'n mac n' cheese! It's crazy how good this stuff is! Make it gluten-free by using gluten-free noodles.
Buffalo Chick'n Mac N' Cheese
Have a great weekend. Get out an enjoy the beautiful fall weather before winter gets here!
Things I'm crushing on right now!
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Melanie Benson says
Hi, there - No offense, and I only say this to show you what your emails are like for me: I love to have the dish or food item listed on the email. That way I know how to find what I'm looking for or to delete items I don't think I'll care for. Your marathon-training emails are not useful to me for that exact reason. I don't do marathons and don't open or save those emails. They wouldn't be easy to index. Thanks for listening.
Linda Meyer says
Hi Melanie, thanks for your comment. No problem, the only recipes that I share in my marathon posts are already on the blog. Feel free to delete. 🙂
veggiesdontbite says
OC!!!!!! Can I get a vote??? But really, if you do come over this way we need to meet up one day. I'm about an hour south of the OC but there are so many awesome places to meet up. I'm crossing my fingers!
Linda Meyer says
I'm almost 100% certain that it will be the OC. My son and his girlfriend are going to LA to look for apartments in a few weeks and then I'll know for sure. I would LOVE to meet up with you when I visit. xoxo
Christine @ Run Plant Based says
Wow, that's awesome about running more - so great! I not sure how many more I will get to after the CIM, but I will probably be talked into running it again next year with my sister - we'll see.
Linda Meyer says
I'm sure your sister will talk you into it. I honestly thought that my first marathon would be my last, but I loved the experience so much that I realized I'd run another one the day after. Good luck!