So I picked up something at the library a couple days ago called the Runners Cookbook by Alison Wade. I figured the snow days would give me time for some elaborate, healthy recipes. However, this "runner's" cookbook is a complete joke. Not only are a lot of the recipes not healthy at all, they are some of the blandest most unoriginal crap. Examples: meatloaf, chicken pilaf, meatballs. There is a guacamole recipe purportedly provided by amy mortimer that looks like something you'd found on a tag hanging from an avocado.
It looks like Alison Wade just picked up some southern living cookbook, typed out the recipes and slapped elite runners names on them. On one or two she doesn't even try to hide that they were "adapted" from other cookbooks. Supposedly all these elite athletes learned these recipes from their coaches, grandmas, and long lost brothers.
Apparently Wade thinks athletes can't design recipes for themselves, as nearly every single runner was given their recipe by a relative. Apparently Wade is smart enough to realize that these aren't actually the foods these runners would probably eat, ie she has Annie Bersagel, who hails from Norway, saying "its hard to find barbecue sauce in Norway.
The highlight of the book: Alan Webb's recipe which is literally just a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'm surprised Wade didn't have a recipe for milk and cereal considering the other ones in this book.
I can see why Wade never made it to the top of the running world.
However, this cookbook was for a good cause, supporting Ryan Shay' family and Jenny Crain. Maybe Wade was so eager to help the Shays that she threw together the worst possible athlete cookbook in a matter of minutes?