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WHAT FIT GUYS REALLY EAT

NUTRITION

THE ULTRA-RUNNING SCHOOLTEACHER BRINGING LOTS OF LUNCH

THE GUY

JASON HARDRATH, 23, is a primaryschool health and PE teacher and an accomplished ultrarunner; he was the first person to set 100 fastestknown times.

THE CHALLENGE

Eating mostly plant-based meals when you're a school teacher in a rural area aud 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, colourful 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 capsicum and a can of tuna or possibly a protein supplement.

His daily diet is pretty healthy, but an epic run of 10 hours or more requires a

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