Off The Couch

By the time she was 5 years old, Kelly Newlon had already identified two of her biggest passions: running and cooking. Those passions led her to running longer and longer races and becoming a classically trained chef.And these days, Kelly and her husband Morgan operate RAD (“Real Athlete Diets”) out of Boulder, Colorado, where they are — quite literally — feeding and fueling the ultrarunning community, including a high number of its elite performers.So in this episode, Maddie Hart and I talk to Kelly about eating well and performing well; the entrepreneurial story of how she went from training at the Culinary Institute of America, to working on a food truck, to starting Real Athletes Diets; dealing with the huge range of the dietary restrictions of runners; and more.TOPICS & TIMES:The story behind Real Athlete Diets (RAD) (2:00)The pressure of fueling performance (6:10)Growing the company (10:32)Runners’ relationships to food (18:55)Kelly’s background in running & cooking (20:41)Training with Jason Ko