Chris Solinsky trained really freaking hard and he wasn't afraid to eat. One of the best articles ever on Letsrun by Jonathan Gault describing Solinsky's American record 10k and how he crushed Galen Rupp and shady Salazar includes this gem: "If you look back at some of my better moments in my running career, I actually had, the night before, an insatiable appetite,” Solinsky says.
Solinsky began with the gnocchi at Il Fornaio, an Italian restaurant in Palo Alto, but the portion was insultingly small. So when Solinsky showed up to Cold Stone Creamery, a pre-race tradition dating back to his Wisconsin days, for his usual order (vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cookie dough, white chocolate chips, and caramel), he ordered a “Gotta Have It” — the biggest size they had. That didn’t do the job either. Only after devouring the majority of a medium pizza from Little Caesars that he “split” with Bairu did Solinsky go to bed satisfied."