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A piece I wrote for the Irish Runner Magazine, published in September 2012; We are slowly but surely becoming a running nation. More and more people are hitting the pavements and pounding the roads. But I want to tell you all about a better place to run, where you don’t have to “pound” , which …

Commencing Jan 1st, I will be working with BMC’s Development Squad as their Performance Nutritionist. This will see me based out of Quarrata, Tuscany, where I will work with the individual riders, attend training camps and support their race program. My contract is not full time so this will enable me to keep my own …

Over the past few years, certain individual pro/elite athletes have contacted me directly to seek advice and support. These have been usually full time pro athletes or those looking to turn pro that have no official sponsor or funding. I have been able to take on a few of these athletes and work with them …

……The Whole is Only as Good as the Sum of its Parts Improving your health and fitness is a multifactorial equation. It involves many different factors which all have to be figured out and then put in place. Once they are in place, they need to be put in the right order so that they …

More of a story than a report: The CCC is an ultra trail marathon, starting in Courmayer and Finishing in Chamonix. It is essentially 100Km of the 168km official UTMB. These two races (plus the TDS and the PTL) make up a week of ultra marathon trail races organised by The North Face and take …

I’m not going to write a big step by step, checkpoint by checkpoint report on the race this time. However, it would be an insult to the race to not write something. So if you read my report from last year http://optimumnutrition4sport.co.uk/2011/08/03/race-report-the-lakeland100/ , you will get more specifics. But for a  look at things from …

This will be a fully packed day of seminars and practical workshops that will teach you how to improve your fitness, health and performance. The objective is to bring you up to date with the world of sports science and to show you exactly how to put it into practice. The myths will be debunked …

Steve has been working with ON4S since the 2010 Tour de France. He pays close attention to his nutrition and is constantly looking at ways to improve his health and performance. The world of cycling and nutrition can be clouded with mystery which often creates confusion and fear for the rider. My work with cyclists focuses …

Dear Minister of Health In response to the proposed legislation to include calories on all restaurant menus, and as a practicing nutritionist, please let me present my case: Calories do not reflect the true nutritional value of a food. A calorie is a measure of the energy released by a food during cellular respiration, it …

As previously “blogged”, I will be returning to Irish shores on the 2nd of February. I will be based in Dublin but will be working with teams, clubs and athletes around Ireland. I will also continue to work with my UK based athletes as well as working online with those based further afield. From what I’ve …