Here’s What These Celebrities Are Eating To Prep For The NYC Half Marathon

After two years at a Covid-standstill, the New York Highway Runner’s (NYRR) Half Marathon is formally again. And it guarantees to be a star-studded occasion. Celebs corresponding to former NFL participant Tiki Barber, MTV Catfish host Nev Schulman, Good Morning America co-anchors Amy Robach and TJ Holmes and ESPN Sportscaster, Nicole Briscoe shall be participating, as will former Miss Universe Andrea Meza, in her debut look on the occasion. Olympic and Paralympic medalists, Ben True and Susannah Scaroni may also be there, becoming a member of the most important group {of professional} athletes within the occasion’s historical past, together with 23 Olympians, eight Paralympians, and 6 open division athletes with half marathon nationwide data.

The occasion takes place on March twentieth and can start in Brooklyn, close to Prospect Park, earlier than heading throughout the East River by way of the Manhattan Bridge. As soon as in Manhattan, runners will race alongside the Decrease East Aspect, as much as Midtown, and thru Instances Sq. earlier than ending in Central Park.

With this being such a particular 12 months for the Half Marathon, the sector of celebrities {and professional} athletes will certainly be within the highlight.

What is going to it take for these public figures to make sure optimum efficiency within the 13.1 mile race?

I not too long ago caught up with ESPN Sportscaster, Nicole Briscoe; Paralympian and Dietitian/Nutritionist for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Susannah Scaroni; Nev Schulman, host of MTV’s Catfish, and Ben True, American observe and subject and cross-country athlete, and winner of the 2018 Half Marathon, to search out out what they’ve been consuming— and avoiding— within the countdown to the occasion.

Nicole Briscoe, ESPN Sportscaster

Nicole Briscoe has been with ESPN since 2008 when she joined as a NASCAR pre-race host, after which she transitioned to SportsCenter in 2015. When she isn’t working, Briscoe is spending time together with her household or operating together with her husband, race automotive driver, Ryan Briscoe. The husband and spouse are each marathon lovers.

“I really like the problem of a half marathon,” says Briscoe. “The space isn’t as overwhelming as a full, however it’s nonetheless arduous, requires a plan and retains me centered. I discover understanding is a lot simpler when there’s a aim. Race day is a reward for all of the arduous work.”

Daphne Ewing-Chow: As a mom with an lively life, how arduous is it to stay to a weight loss program?

Nicole Briscoe: My weight loss program is the toughest factor for me to dial in and stability, however it does make an enormous distinction. Once I’m consuming proper, my legs really feel lighter, my respiratory is best and general, coaching simply feels simpler. That mentioned, I’m a mother. I work odd hours. I journey. I’m not at all times the most effective at being strict about my weight loss program.

Daphne Ewing-Chow: What weight loss program works for you and what’s your recommendation on making the precise weight loss program selections for optimum efficiency?

Nicole Briscoe: I discover I’m at my finest after I stick with complete meals and keep away from sugar, wheat, and dairy. It additionally means reducing out alcohol and wine. Discovering what’s proper is a little bit of trial and error. It’s additionally not one dimension suits all. I feel it’s most necessary to do what’s best for you.

Susannah Scaroni, American Paralympic athlete

“I’m selecting to compete on the United Airways NYC Half this 12 months to have a good time my love of this sport,” says three time Paralympian and Dietitian/Nutritionist for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Susannah Scaroni.

In her third Paralympics in Tokyo final summer time, Scaroni gained her first gold medal in within the 5,000 meters and in addition gained bronze within the 800 meters. That concluded a improbable summer time on each street and observe, which started together with her third consecutive Mini 10K title in Central Park.

However in September 2021, lower than a month after the Paralympics, Scaroni was hit by a automotive whereas coaching in Illinois, leading to a fractured vertebrae and inflicting her to be sidelined from competitors, and lacking all the autumn marathons. New York Highway Runner’s (NYRR) Half Marathon shall be her first race again because the accident.

“It has been an eventful 12 months for me, and one thought that has surfaced is that I’m grateful to be alive and to be a wheelchair racer,” she says. “So, I’m selecting to return to New York as my first race again after my harm to expertise the enjoyment of racing and to have a good time being alive.”

Daphne Ewing-Chow: As a nutritionist/ dietitian and knowledgeable athlete, how would you say your weight loss program impacts efficiency?

Susannah Scaroni: The quantity, and kind of meals, I put into my physique straight impacts the quantity of vitality I’ve accessible for exercising in addition to how energized I really feel when it comes to my perceived effort at varied train intensities. Collectively, these present me with the flexibility to press as a lot as I can after I must, which is a vital piece of my efficiency. Greater than that, I really like meals as a result of my weight loss program supplies me with the important parts that permit me to focus and to keep away from accidents and sicknesses.

Daphne Ewing-Chow: How did you select your particular weight loss program?

Susannah Scaroni: I select to make use of a food-first strategy to my dietary consuming sample for a number of causes. The primary cause is that, with meals, the sum is usually higher than its components. For instance, ingesting a glass of milk has been proven to affect skeletal muscle extra so than having the identical quantity of protein from remoted whey powder. There may be doubtless quite a bit to a meals’s matrix that may profit our fueling and restoration, so I keep away from dietary dietary supplements and attempt to get my vitamin from complete meals sources as a lot as attainable.

Nev Schulman, host of MTV’s Catfish

“I really like operating! I might join a half marathon each weekend if I may,” says Nev Schulman, host of MTV’s hit present, Catfish.

Schulman is a a 2:58 marathoner (quicker than some other movie star) who grew up in New York Metropolis on 66th and Central Park West, very near the end line of the New York Metropolis Marathon, and is actually operating within the footsteps of his father, who can also be an avid runner.

Daphne Ewing-Chow: What sort of weight loss program works finest for you when making ready for a race?

Nev Schulman: To be sincere, I have never spent a ton of time specializing in my weight loss program as a runner. I attempt to eat nicely year-round, however most significantly, for a few days earlier than the race, I keep away from something that might upset my abdomen— issues like seafood (for apparent causes) and something too tacky or greasy.

Daphne Ewing-Chow: Why haven’t you been focusing in your weight loss program?

Nev Schulman: I do know lots of people who do change their weight loss program main as much as a race, however I discover that preserving it according to what I have been consuming throughout all my coaching and never altering something up is the most secure manner for me to make certain I am going to have the vitamin and vitality I want.

Ben True, American observe and subject and cross-country athlete

“Working any of the New York Highway Runner occasions is at all times a deal with,” says American observe and subject and cross-country athlete, Ben True who was the primary American man to win the United Airways NYC Half Marathon, protecting the course in 1:02:39. It was his first time operating the occasion.

“One among my favourite operating reminiscences is popping onto seventh Ave in the course of the 2018 NYC Half and having the Instances Sq. Youngsters Run begin proper subsequent to the professional subject, racing us in direction of Central Park,” he says. “The environment and the individuals surrounding the NYC Half is what retains me coming again.”

Daphne Ewing-Chow: How does your weight loss program affect your efficiency as knowledgeable athlete?

Ben True: Weight loss plan has a big impact on efficiency for anybody. It is advisable to gasoline the physique to permit your self to coach, get better, and compete on the highest ranges. When you don’t gasoline your physique with sufficient meals, you gained’t have the vitality to coach at a excessive degree. In case your weight loss program doesn’t comprise the mandatory macro and micro vitamins, you gained’t be capable to adequately get better between classes. With out balancing excessive ranges of coaching and restoration, you possibly can’t be knowledgeable athlete. Thus, weight loss program has an enormous affect on efficiency.

Daphne Ewing-Chow: Inform me about your weight loss program.

Ben True: My weight loss program is fairly easy: eat actual meals, eat what tastes good to you, and eat when you find yourself hungry. There isn’t something that’s utterly off limits. There is no such thing as a such factor as “unhealthy” meals (with the plain exception of private style preferences). As an alternative, there are meals which have higher dietary worth than others, meals which are much less processed than others, and meals which are higher on your physique in how they’re transformed to gasoline. It’s these “larger high quality” meals that I attempt to comprise nearly all of my each day weight loss program.

Past that, I simply eat what tastes good.