Runner: My ‘superpower’ vegan diet helped me smash record
NY Post
Ultrarunner Robbie Balenger doesn’t stop — and eating green helps him go.
The vegan athlete’s 100% plant-based diet gave him the “superpower” stamina to set a new record for running the most laps around Central Park in less than 24 hours — all without the meaty fuel many extreme athletes swear by. “The plant-based diet helps me to excel as an endurance runner,” Balenger, 36, told The Post. “Breaking down animal protein can be laborious on our [digestive] systems.”
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.