For this week’s #VeganFoodChat, we continued our 2-part Race Week series with #VegRunChat. Our topic was “Vegan Food Fueling for Races.” It was a great discussion on how food gives us energy and how we use it to prepare for running and any other athletic race, like cycling! All of our participants had some great insight to share, as long with some pertinent resources we all can use.

It certainly doesn’t matter at which stage of athleticism you’re at. You can be a novice like Macaroon, who’s training for her first 5K in July or an expert marathoner! We all need food to keep us going. Being plant-based certainly doesn’t pose such a challenge to do that.

Here’s our Storify recap of last night’s chat. Please feel free to keep the discussion going here, on Facebook or on Twitter with hashtag #VeganFoodChat

We learned a lot out food fueling this week. As Mac prepares for her first race, it’ll truly give her what she needs to get through it! Not to mention, she’s super excited that Brendan Brazier and Ester the Wonder Pig favorited her tweets that mentioned them. That’s inspiration enough.

A big thanks to everyone who participated, especially Brandon from #VegRunChat for partnering with us this week! Check out #VegRunChat on Sundays at 9pm ET on Twitter!

Next week, #VeganFoodChat is all about fashion! Join us Wednesday 6/11 at 8pm ET/5pm PT with our friends from Compassion Couture!