134: World Champion Grayson Murphy’s Journey with Food, Body + Sports

In this episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition, I talk with 2x World Mountain Running Champion and multifaceted professional athlete Grayson Murphy. Grayson’s journey with athletics has been full of ups and downs, as she’s made multiple transitions across sports and within running. From collegiate soccer to professional trail running to competing in the US Olympic Team Track and Field Trials, we hear how Grayson refuses to be defined by any one label and embraces her diverse athletic interests. Along the way, Grayson has been tested and she talks about her struggles with an eating disorder and mental health, the influence of different sporting body ideals and the pressure she felt to change her body size. She opens up about the different treatments and therapies that have helped her along the way, including medication and meditation.

Grayson and I discuss strategies for fueling around workouts and races for performance and recovery, as well as some of the lessons she’s learned from her own nutrition struggles. Grayson shares how her passion for journaling and destigmatizing mental health turned into a business, and I encourage you to check it out here https://www.racin-grayson.com/pages/2023-training-log-planner. We finish off with our usual end of the podcast questions and compare wavy lay’s with ruffles chips!

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In this episode we talk about:

3:45 Grayson’s diverse athletic interests and active upbringing 

7:10 Challenges as a collegiate athlete, transferring schools and sports from soccer to running

13:20 Running all different distances and terrains: track, road, and trails

18:00 Raising the profile and popularity of trail and ultra running

23:00 Grayson’s nutrition journey beginning with an eating disorder in high school

25:30 Different body ideals and pressures in different sports

33:55 Tips from an elite runner on fueling training and racing 

38:00 Lessons learned from nutrition struggles

41:30 Mental health treatments and therapies: medication, meditation, journaling

45:00 Racin’ Grayson Training Logs

47:40 End of the podcast questions