With less than 7 weeks to go until the Chicago Marathon, runs are getting longer and nutrition is becoming increasingly important.

It has been 4 months since my last post – after deferring my marathon back in May, I’ve been focused on healing this injury while also ramping up for the Chicago Marathon in October. As I reach peak training this month, it’s become evident that I need to start focusing more on nutrition so I decided that it was time to open the recipe books again. I pulled out Elyse Kopecky and Shalane Flanagan’s book, Run Fast. Cook Fast. Eat Slow., and flipped to turkey meatballs.

The recipe was incredibly easy and I’m all for easy when it comes to a weeknight dinner. Although the recipe is called TURKEY trot meatballs, there was 90% lean ground beef on sale at Whole Foods this week.

All you need is ground turkey (or beef), Parmesan, flour, parsley, garlic powder, salt, pepper and an egg! Once everything is mixed together, they took less than 30 minutes to bake in the oven. For serving it, I ate mine plain with some broccoli and Cade made a teriyaki glaze for his.

Now go and buy the book to start trying out these recipes for yourself, if you haven’t already!