{"id":38775,"date":"2015-04-17T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=38775"},"modified":"2016-07-08T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:14:44","slug":"38775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/38775\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Sargent Alum Aims for Eighth Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY STEPHANIE ROTONDO<\/p>\n

What does a dietitian eat the night before the Boston Marathon? \u201cUsually pizza,\u201d says Ming Cheung (CAS \u201908, SAR \u201914). On April 20, the Framingham, Mass. native runs his eighth marathon – his fourth in Boston – to support Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital\u2013Needham<\/a> (BIDN).<\/p>\n

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Ming Cheung, Photo credit: BIDN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After graduating from Sargent College with a Master of Science in nutrition, Cheung began working full-time at his internship placement, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where he is currently a dietitian employed through Sodexo.<\/p>\n

An overweight teen, Cheung drastically changed his lifestyle before his first semester at BU, dropping more than 50 pounds. \u201cI was sick of not fitting into normal clothes,\u201d he says. It was as a freshman at Boston University that he ran his first Boston Marathon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always a dream of mine to run the marathon,\u201d he says. \u201cI had a bunch of friends who wanted to run, and we became the BU Bandits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cheung believes his background in nutrition gives him a competitive edge. \u201cI feel like I was able to condition my body and know how food interacts with my body much better,\u201d he says. \u201cI can adjust what I eat to optimize my training.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the strategy is not rocket science. In fact, consistency is key. \u201cI learned not to change my diet before the marathon, to keep it consistent and increase carbs a bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cheung\u2019s advice for other runners? It\u2019s no surprise he recommends a healthy diet. \u201cOnce I started eating healthy, running got a lot easier,\u201d he explains. \u201cAfter my first marathon, I was sore for over 2 weeks. Once I learned about nutrition, I was only sore for one day, and maybe the second day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being a dietician \u201chelps with knowing what to eat after a marathon and training session.\u201d Cheung recommends that everyone learn what works for them, but hydration as well as increasing potassium and electrolytes are key.<\/p>\n

Cheung\u2019s goal is to finish the 119th<\/sup> Boston Marathon in under four hours. He previously raised more than $12,000 from his combined marathons and this year has set a goal of donating $7,500 to the BIDN Cancer Center and Surgical Pavilion.<\/p>\n

Visit Cheung\u2019s marathon page<\/a> to learn more or to donate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY STEPHANIE ROTONDO What does a dietitian eat the night before the Boston Marathon? \u201cUsually pizza,\u201d says Ming Cheung (CAS \u201908, SAR \u201914). On April 20, the Framingham, Mass. native runs his eighth marathon – his fourth in Boston – to support Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital\u2013Needham (BIDN). After graduating from Sargent College with a Master […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38775"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38775\/revisions\/44957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}