Meghann Featherstun RDN: Running after a sacral stress fracture, and sports nutrition trends in 2025
Release Date: 05/15/2025
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info_outline" I just needed to do all of those things for myself before I really talked about it publicly. Plus, I was not in a great head space about it at first, as most people aren't with a big injury," says well-known sports dietitian Meghann Featherstun, RDN MS CSSD, in regards to the post where she shared her sacral stress fracture injury at the end of 2024.
Meghann Featherstun, aka "Feathers" (if you're a "Fuel for the Sole" listener), and maybe best known by her private practice's name and Instagram handle, Featherstone Nutrition, joined Lane 9 to talk about her running experiences—including her first marathon, the 6 World Marathon Majors in 18 months, her recent injury, and more. Featherstun is a 2:51 marathoner, breaking the 3-hour mark for the first time in 2019 and getting faster from there. And she's on Instagram weekly sharing accessible and easy-applicable sports nutrition information for the everyday runner.
(Think you can't fuel before your run? Her graham-crackers say otherwise!)
This episode also covers:
- the real reason Meghann signed up for her very first marathon in 2009
- the lessons she had to learn for herself before specializing in sports nutrition
- how everything came together for her to complete the 6-star World Marathon Majors goal in only 18 months
- the process of coming to terms with her sacral stress fracture and then sharing with widely, which isn't easy to do
- how she's been recovering from that injury
- and of course, sports nutrition! Trends, carbs (not a trend!), sodium (also not a trend, but kind of is!), and eating adequately for performance.
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