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The Best Fall Fuel for Runners (Endurance & Strength)

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Fall is the season of slow food, roots, warmth and colour. In this video, I show you what a seasonal meal prep looks like in my kitchen. Usually, I meal prep every Sunday for the week ahead. I love feeling and tasting the seasons pass and check out whats new on the local markets. In all my meal preps I truy to include lots of healthy complex carbs (great for long workouts), protein, fiber and the least amount of processed foods as possible. In this one, we’ll cook with these seasonal ingredients: pumpkin, sweet potato, beetroot, chickpeas, lentils, leek, chicken, and fish: foods that keep you energized, strong, and resilient through long runs, lifts, and recovery days. Beetroots are one of the best natural performance boosters out there. They dilate your blood vessels and increase your cardiovascular efficiency. Sweet potatoes are the endurance athlete of the vegetable world. Lots of complex carbs that will fuel the longest of long runs. The rest is good stuff too... My mum always told me to eat lots of different things to be healthy and resilient, and I want to represent that here. No vegan, carnivore, keto or any of that BS. Subscribe to the Weekly Wild Newsletter: https://weekly.wildrapha.com Download the Wild Meal plan: wildrapha.gumroad.com/l/qqycpk Here's the recipe: Ingredients: 🥕 Tray 1 – Roots • 1 Hokkaido pumpkin • 4 sweet potatoes • 8 carrots • 4 beetroots • Olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, paprika 🥬 Tray 2 – Support crew • 3 leeks • 1 can cooked chickpeas (rinsed & drained) • Green beans • 4–6 garlic cloves (skin on) 🍗 Proteins • 500 g chicken breast • 500 g white fish (cod, hake, etc.) • 1 cup cooked lentils Instructions: 1️⃣ Wash and cut all roots into chunks. 2️⃣ Save the pumpkin seeds (rinse & dry). 3️⃣ Season roots → olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, paprika. 4️⃣ Roast for 40 min at 200 °C. 5️⃣ Prep Tray 2 (leeks, chickpeas, garlic) → roast 20 min; add kale for last 5 min. 6️⃣ Cook chicken + fish in the same pan with olive oil, salt & pepper. 7️⃣ Simmer lentils 10–15 min with herbs or garlic. 8️⃣ Assemble roots + greens + protein + lentils. 9️⃣ Top with roasted pumpkin seeds. Macros (approx per meal): 500–600 kcal · 30–40 g protein · 60–75 g carbs · 8–10 g fat Stay wild! Rapha 🌿

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Fall is my favourite time to fuel: slow food, roots, warmth, and colours that actually make you want to eat like an athlete and a human. In this video I show you what my seasonal Sunday meal prep looks like—simple trays in the oven, minimal processing, and a mix of complex carbs, protein, and fibre so I’m covered for long runs, strength sessions, and recovery days. I’m not doing vegan, carnivore, keto or any of that BS—my mum always told me to eat lots of different things to be healthy and resilient, and I try to live that. I build the week around roasted roots (hokkaido pumpkin, sweet potatoes, carrots, beetroot) plus a “support crew” tray with leeks, chickpeas, green beans and whole garlic cloves. Then I cook chicken breast and a white fish like cod/hake in the same pan, and add lentils for extra protein and steady energy. I also talk about why beetroot is such a legit performance booster (blood vessel dilation and better cardiovascular efficiency) and why sweet potato is basically the endurance athlete of the vegetable world—complex carbs that keep you going when the run turns into an adventure.

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