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JD Jessie Diggins On Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast

“On my easier training sessions, if you're just out for a slow, easy, long ski or run or bike, I would bake muffins and bring muffins on the journey because I was like, this tastes way better. It's more exciting to me. It's fueling the training. So I did a lot of baking throughout my career, like training for Olympics fueled by banana muffins.”

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast · Food & Beverage · November 2026

“On my easier training sessions, if you're just out for a slow, easy, long ski or run or bike, I would bake muffins and bring muffins on the journey because I was like, this tastes way better. It's more exciting to me. It's fueling the training. So I did a lot of baking throughout my career, like training for Olympics fueled by banana muffins.” — Jessie Diggins, Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast

Context

Diggins says gels and sports drinks still have a place on hard sessions, but for long easy days she packed homemade muffins instead. It explains how baking became part of her training.

Transcript

Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast Around 19:14 into the episode
Jessica Battilana

anymore.

Rossi Anastopoulo

Yeah.

Speaker 1

And so for a long time, on my easier training sessions, like, for sure, there's still a place where on the super high-intensity sport drink and gels, they've got their place. But if you're just out for a slow, easy, long ski or run or bike, I would bake muffins and bring muffins on the journey because I was like, this tastes way better. It's more exciting to me. I'm excited to have this snack. It's fueling the training. So I did a lot of baking throughout my career, like training for Olympics fueled by banana muffins.

Rossi Anastopoulo

Yeah. And

Jessica Battilana

that was

Speaker 1

really awesome. And so now in training for this 100-mile, I'm experimenting with all sorts of different food, like what flavors and things might feel good

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