Morning Fruit & Almond “Meal”

March is NUTRITION MONTH. A GREAT excuse to start incorporating more fruit and plant based protein into your diet. For those following a grain-free diet, or just need a morning grub switch-up, you will appreciate the ease and amazing flavour of this dish. I clocked many extra K’s (in my Mizuno Wave Universe kicks) while developing and TASTE TESTING this recipe, as I-could-not-stop-eating-it!

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Fueling a Runner

Coming home from my morning runs, I usually look forward to breakfast, something like a bowl of hot cereal with things like cinnamon, flax seed, and some sort of berries added to it. Then at some point throughout the day I have lunch and start some dinner preparations so that most of dinner is ready when Jason and I get home from our evening run. Apart from time running and working out, I realize that I spend a lot of time planning, preparing, and eating. In training, I think the second most important thing next to actual running and working out is eating, followed closely by sleeping. That’s the life of a distance runner, and most athletes.

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Feel lighter, run faster.

Sounds sort of like an idealist runner’s dream… right?
Well, at Mizuno we never stop dreaming about how to make our stuff better. It’s actually deeply embedded into our DNA while paying homage to our strong Japanese roots, with just one word: “Kaizen”, which basically translates to “continued improvement”.
“Kaizen” isn’t just a word to us, those six letters perfectly embody what Mizuno Running is all about. Follow me here…

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Mizuno Shoe Guy Answers Your Footwear Questions, February 2013

Do you have a shoe-related question? Or a running shoe question, specific to Mizuno for the Mizuno Shoe Guy? If you have a question you’d like him to answer, send it to Shoeguy@Mizunousa.com. He’ll pick five questions a month to answer and if he picks your question, we’ll send you a beautiful Mizuno tech T-shirt.

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