The Endurance Athlete Journey
The Endurance Athlete Journey Podcast helps runners, triathletes, and endurance athletes train smarter, fuel better, and build long-term durability in sport.
Hosted by Coach Justin and sports dietitian Katie, the show explores the training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset challenges endurance athletes actually face—without the confusion and generic internet fitness advice that often leads to burnout, inconsistency, and frustration.
From first triathlons and swim anxiety to fueling mistakes, recovery, race-day expectations, and balancing training with real life, each episode combines practical coaching insight with evidence-based nutrition guidance and honest athlete conversations to help listeners better understand the “why” behind their training and fueling decisions.
Whether you’re preparing for your first race or trying to become a more complete endurance athlete, this podcast gives you clear, experience-driven guidance you can actually apply to your training, recovery, and performance.
The Endurance Athlete Journey
Episode 6: Meal Planning and Prep for Athletes
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We discuss the following
- Why meal planning and prep is so important
- How it can help save time and money
- What happens when we don’t plan ahead
- It does not have to be perfect. There is all this stuff on instagram of people prepping perfect meals and putting the meal portioned out perfectly in a tupperware for the week. This is not necessary! Don’t overthink it!
- Steps for meal prep including planning, prepping grocery list and shopping
- Tips for meal planning from apps you can use to how to make it easier and less time intensive
- Bulk cooking and how meal planning my look for different types of schedules and preferences. Some people are okay with leftovers or eating the same meal over again and some people prefer more variety.
- Convenience options such as Greek yogurt, Rotisserie chicken, canned beans, pre-cooked rice, pre-cooked hard boiled eggs, cooked shrimp or salmon, pre-cut fruit or veggies, or cottage cheese.
- Combining bulk items with convenience options with some quick meal ideas to make meals for the week.
- Other considerations with meal planning including how to allow for some flexibility
For coaching inquiries:
Coach Katie → https://fuel2run.com
Coach Justin → https://tabularasaracing.com
Podcast Email → theenduranceathletejourney@gmail.com
