Right after the new year, I received a review copy of a book by a fellow extreme endurance athlete, and although there was a lot to love about it, what stopped me in my tracks was the author’s insistence that a vegan diet was the secret to his success.
Honestly, just the mention of tofu makes me crave a steak.
Anyway, no, it wasn’t Scott Jurek’s book, which comes out this spring. It was one by a lesser known and less accomplished athlete. But it got me thinking again about how much runners tend to seek out the silver bullet and how quick we are to seize on diet as the answer.
New York holds significance for me in so many ways. Not only did we finish here, but this city was also home to one of my mentors and key inspirations for the transcon, the father of modern ultrarunning, 
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