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In The Flow
by Jackson Long
In The Flow explores the connections between endurance sport in the mountains, nutrition, and creative expression to fuel the flow of meaningful movement. Hosted by coach, nutritionist, and mountain athlete Jackson Long.
Episodes
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Reflections: Transcontinental Race no.11
I sit down for an in-depth reflection on the 2025 Transcontinental Race with my friend Tucker McCrerey to recap the highs, lows, highlights, gear, and lessons learned from racing 3,000 miles from Spain to Romania. For more reflections and photos, head over to my Substack, The Mountain Athlete...
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Creative Athlete Rambling w/ Tucker McCrerey
I'm fascinated with conversations exploring the intersections of creativity and athletics. One of the people who inspires me in both of these realms immensely is my close friend, Tucker McCrerey. An exceptional mountain athlete and architect, Tucker and I live together and motivate each other to...
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Transcontinental Tales ep. 0 | prep, training, and creating overview
I'm about one month away from my latest (and longest) ultra-endurance challenge: The Transcontinental Race. The TCR is a ~3,000 mile self-supported bike race across the continent of Europe, starting in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and finishing on the coast of the Black Sea in Romania. While...
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Eat Neve: Nora Fierman on Fueling the Mountain Endurance Flow
Neve, Italian for snow, is a portable, real food fuel born from Nora Fierman's passion for endurance sport in the mountains. A lifelong skier, Nora wanted to change the game around how endurance skiers fuel. Neve is a little pouch of goodness, made from foods like beets, tart cherries, and...
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In The Flow Redux
Reckon it's time for a little check in eh? I'm back to share some rambling thoughts on creative challenges, mental health, and my passion for podcasting in an effort to revive and refresh this show. More to come.
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Edyn Teitge: Tour Divide's Youngest Ever Solo Finisher
The Tour Divide is perhaps the most renowned offroad ultra-cycling race in the world. Spanning 2,700 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide, it's an extremely challenging endurance event that many highly experienced adult participants take years to complete successfully. Edyn...
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Tales from the Tour Divide ep. 4
A final check-in & update from Jackson from New Mexico.
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Tales from the Tour Divide Ep. 3
After crossing the halfway point, Jackson reflects on the Tour Divide thus far & adds some insight into the environment and people along the route. Some wind included, as he's recording while riding in some rad conditions.
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Tales from the Tour Divide ep. 2
Another mid-ride update from Jackson after a week of riding the Tour Divide. After some major adversity, Jackson offers a change in perspective in his mission to continue the race.
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Tales from the Tour Divide ep. 1
3 days and 400 miles into the 2,700 mile Tour Divide, here's an uncut report from Jackson on the race thus far & the events, crazy weather conditions, and route conditions encountered; follow along for continued updates!
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Tales from the Tour Divide ep. 0
The 2,700 mile offroad, self-supported bikepacking race starts on Friday, June 14th. Along with filming for our self produced documentary, my friend Rob Carter will be helping me post short, raw and uncut podcast snippets from the trail, sharing my experiences and challenges and race updates from...
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Tour Divide: Preparing to race 2,700 miles and make a movie about it
The pod is back. After a long winter and a lot of work and prep I'm excited to share my biggest adventure project yet: the 2,700 mile offroad and self-supported ultra cycling race known as Tour Divide. Starting in Banff, Canada and finishing at the U.S./Mexico border in just two weeks, my friend...
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Sloan Storey and the Story of The Wylde Beet
The Wylde Beet is the vision of one of my best friends, Sloan Storey. A plant-based food truck turned cafe that has a simple mission: feed people good food with the community and a greater impact in mind. It's off to a killer start, and I wanted to bring Sloan on to share in more depth the...
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Jackson's Performance Nutrition Manifesto 2023
Hello. Hi. It's me, Jackson. I'm checking back in on the podcast to share some evolved thoughts and ramblings on my current approach and philosophy around performance nutrition for mountain athletes. Subscribe for free to The Mountain Athlete Journal: http://mountainathlete.substack.com
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Top 5 Nutrition Tips for Plant-Based Athletes
This week on the show I'm sharing my top 5 tips to help plant-based athletes dial in their nutrition for health and performance. In this short episode I'll cover some essential considerations, including: know your "why" prioritize energy availability and sync your nutrition with your training...
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Exercise science, the Strava paradox, and doping in triathlon with Rob Carter
Rob Carter is an exercise physiologist, triathlete, endurance nerd, and fellow electronic music fan. We talk through a wide range of topics including the double-edged sword that is Strava, doping in triathlon, Fred Again.., finding meaning in sport beyond pure performance, and many more. To learn...
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In The Flow Reboot: updates, philosophy, and rambles
In The Flow is back. Change is in the air and it's time to refresh the podcast and get back to our regularly scheduled programming. In this episode, I update on the happenings in my life and some exciting new changes, and kind of refresh the philosophy of In The Flow and what it is I'm doing…
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Winter Sport Nutrition & Fueling the Flow w/ Kylee Van Horn, RD
Winter is upon us and with it the specific nutrition and hydration demands of pushing hard in cold temps. I'm thrilled to have Registered Dietitian Kylee Van Horn on the pod this week to discuss all things fueling, hydration, and strategies for winter endurance sport, plus nutrition philosophies,...
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Stories from the road of ultra-endurance cycling w/ Josh Reid
My guest today is ultra-endurance cyclist and filmmaker, Josh Reid. Hailing from the UK, Josh has completed many incredible expeditions by bike, including a multi-month trip from China to England, and more recently competing in the Transcontinental race across Europe. Josh joins In The Flow to...
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How to Eat for Backcountry Skiing and Skimo
Winter is here in the Mountain West and that means SKIING! For those of us lucky enough to live near snow and skiable slopes, we must consider the nutrition demands of such activities. Particularly when it comes to backcountry ski touring or ski mountaineering (AKA skimo), there are legitimate...
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Ultra-endurance nutrition and insights from Kilian Jornet's diet w/ Paul Booth MSc
Paul Booth is a performance nutritionist (MSc, MA.Ed, MA, IOPN) who specializes in helping ultra and endurance athletes thrive. Hailing from the UK, Paul has an extensive professional background in academia as well as his own ultra-endurance pursuits. We discuss performance nutrition for ultra...
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In The Flow Season 4
In The Flow is back - after a summer away from the podcast I'm settling back into the groove (ahem, flow) of creativity and motivation to educate and inspire athletes to live and eat better in pursuit of performance. This episode updates the listener on my summer endeavors, future goals for the...
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Matt Whitcomb, Head Coach of the U.S. Cross-Country Ski Team
This week I'm back with a wide-ranging conversation on performance, the mental side of sport, coaching insights, and more with Matt Whitcomb, the current head coach of the U.S. Ski Team on the cross-country side. Matt has played a pivotal coaching role in the last 3 winter Olympic games…
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Random Show w/ Aaron Stuber | writing, ADHD, reflecting on death, and more
A blast from the past. My previous co-host from the Thought For Food days Aaron Stuber returns to the show for a random conversation covering ADHD, writing books, mortality, and more. Visit intheflownutrition.com to connect and sign up for nutrition consulting services.
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Overtraining, Under Recovery, and Energy Availability: The Connection
In this episode, I discuss the connections between over-reaching and overtraining, low energy availability, and RED-S and how athletes should balance training hard with recovering harder. For more info, resources, and references visit intheflownutrition.com/blog.
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In The Flow Season 3 Refresh | Nutrition & Movement Philosophy
It's been a minute. In The Flow Podcast returns for its third season to continue providing quality, nuanced, long form, evidence-informed, and entertaining conversations around cool stuff like: performance nutrition, plant-based eating, environmental sustainability, mountain athletics, sports...
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Ginny Messina MPH, RD | Rational Vegan Nutrition
Pleased to share my conversation with "The Vegan RD", Ginny Messina. Ginny is a vegan activist and animal advocate, and promotes an evidence-based, rational approach to vegan nutrition and lifestyle. We discuss misinformation in the vegan community, optimizing a vegan diet, and more. To learn…
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Performance Chef Ida Bergsløkken on Cooking for Endurance Excellence
Ida Bergsløkken is a performance chef and nutritionist from Oslo, Norway who works with the British cross-country ski team and the Norwegian national biathlon team as a team chef. An accomplished athlete and accredited sports nutritionist as well as a background in engineering, Ida combines all…
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The Importance of Nutrition for Young Athletes
Teaching young athletes about the value of nutrition is critical for their health and performance. In this podcast episode, I share some thoughts on how and why nutrition is important for youth athletes and ways to support them in their development and sporting growth.
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Tracking Technology for Athletes w/ Aaron Stuber (part 2)
Aaron and I return for part 2 of our conversation around wearable and tracking technology for athletes; their pros and cons, place in sport, and our experience using them professionally and personally. We dive into the realm of nutrition and fitness tracking tools like Cronometer and Strava, plus...
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Wearable Technology for Athletes Random Show feat. Aaron Stuber (part 1)
What's the deal with wearable technology? Things like the Whoop strap, Oura ring, Apple Watches, glucose monitors, etc. are becoming more and more popular in the athletic performance scene, claimed to give an "edge" to tracking performance metrics. But is this tech something we should all be...
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Grace Staberg: Professional Skimo Racer and Ultrarunner
Today I'm joined by young professional ski mountaineering "skimo" racer and ultrarunner, Grace Staberg. Grace is 19 and already taking the mountain athletic racing calendar by storm, competing for the USA National Skimo team at the World Cup and World Championship level, and also winning mountain...
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Eden Morris, RD | Athlete Identity, Mental Health, and the State of the Nutrition Union
I'm joined this week by registered dietitian and mountain athlete, Eden Morris. Hailing from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Eden has been a guest on the podcast before. This time we delve into the world of mental health in sport, the challenging world of social media, identity and ego as an athlete,...
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Unbound Gravel Recap + Ultra-Endurance Nutrition: Science into Practice
After a long break from the podcast, I return to share my experience from Unbound Gravel 200 and then provide some wisdom on bridging the gap between science and practice for eating for ultra-endurance performance. I cover the general principles of ultra-endurance nutrition for training and…
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Brodie Chapman, the Vegan Jedi of the women's WorldTour
This week I sit down with Australian professional cyclist, Brodie Chapman. Brodie races for the FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine pro team at many of the calendar's biggest races. She's also been a proud and passionate vegan for the entirety of her professional career. We talk about veganism in sport, how…
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The Plant-Based Athlete | Performance Nutrition Frequently Asked Questions feat. Vic Johnson (part 2)
We're back with the second half of the Plant-Based Athlete FAQ, diving in and answering the most common questions about performance nutrition as an athlete following a plant-centered diet. I'm joined by fellow mountain athlete and nutrition coach, Vic Johnson, to discuss topics like iron and...
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The Plant-Based Athlete | Performance Nutrition Frequently Asked Questions feat. Vic Johnson (part 1)
In the final installment of my Plant-Based Athlete Nutrition information series, I'm joined by fellow plant-powered mountain athlete and nutrition nerd Vic Johnson. We answer the most frequently asked questions pertaining to performance nutrition for plant-based athletes. In the first part of the...
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Uri Carlson, RDN and the flow state of real food and real performance
Uri Carlson is a registered dietitian and mountain athlete from Breckenridge, Colorado who works with a multitude of athletes to fuel their performance with an emphasis on real food and a positive relationship to nutrition. To learn more about Uri and connect with her, follow her on Instagram...
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The Plant-Based Athlete | Need to Know Nutrients and Example Day of Eating
In the second installment of a series dedicated to helping new, aspiring, or experienced plant-based athletes thrive with their nutrition, I discuss some key nutrients to be aware of, their sources, and how to incorporate them into your diet through foods. I then share a sample day meal plan that...
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Jason Koop | Ultrarunning Coaching Insights and Battling Nutrition Quackery
I sit down with Coach Jason Koop, the head ultrarunning coach for CTS Coaching and the host of the popular ultrarunning podcast, KoopCast. We discuss his early days of coaching, working with the punches of COVID-19 in sport, youth athlete development, battling nutrition quackery and…
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The Plant-Based Athlete | Getting Started
Introducing a new series on the podcast: a primer for new and experienced plant-based athletes alike to thrive and do it right. This first installment is meant as an introduction to the series and some steps and advice for getting started.
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In The Flow currently has 115 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is In The Flow about?
In The Flow explores the connections between endurance sport in the mountains, nutrition, and creative expression to fuel the flow of meaningful movement. Hosted by coach, nutritionist, and mountain athlete Jackson Long.
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In The Flow publishes regularly with 115 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
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In The Flow is created and hosted by Jackson Long.
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