THE ULTRARUNNING SCHOOLTEACHER BRINGING LOTS OF LUNCH
THE GUY
JASON HARDRATH, 23, is an elementaryschool health and PE teacher and an accomplished ultrarunner; he was the first person to set 100 fastest-known times.
THE CHALLENGE
Eating mostly plant-based meals when you’re a schoolteacher in a rural area and it’s not easy to just pop out quickly and grab a healthy lunch.
THE SOLUTION
Packing lunch. One classic: “I make a salad by taking the whole family-sized tub of salad that you buy at the grocery store, opening the top, adding nuts, seeds, colorful cut veggies, and quinoa or another protein, and eating the whole thing myself,” he says. Another: two or three packets of ramen noodles mixed with bell pepper and Gnarly Sports Nutrition Collagen Pro protein supplement.
His daily diet is pretty healthy, but an epic run of ten hours or more requires a different strategy. “There’s no way I eat enough calories while
