Eat, Toss, or Carry Chaos | Food Fight Friday at the Aid Station presented by 7 Summits Snacks
Eat, Toss, or Carry: Childhood Foods Go Ultra
When you’ve run 70 miles and your brain feels like mashed potatoes, logic flies out the window and suddenly, the idea of carrying a pudding cup up a mountain makes perfect sense. That’s the spirit behind Food Fight Friday at the Aid Station, presented by 7 Summits Snacks, where hosts Jason Bahamundi and Adam Lee mix endurance sport with cafeteria food fun in their laugh-out-loud “Eat, Toss, or Carry” game.
This week, the duo takes on the ultimate childhood food showdown and doing it with an extra serving of laughs.
🥄 Nostalgia Meets the Aid Station
Every episode of Food Fight Friday starts with the kind of banter you’d expect at mile 80 of an ultra. Delirious, honest, and oddly insightful. Jason (Run Tri Bike founder and proud mayo enthusiast) and Adam (Community Trail Running’s resident realist and ketchup chip defender) relive the culinary crimes of their childhoods: soggy pizza squares, bland nuggets, and mystery-meat Mondays.
Then comes the challenge, the “Eat, Toss, or Carry” game. It’s simple: three absurd food options, one to eat, one to toss, and one to carry to the next aid station. The choices are often so bad they’d make your crew question your sanity, but that’s half the fun.
Would you eat a chicken nugget mid-ultra? Toss the mayo spoon in protest? Or proudly carry a pudding cup through a sandstorm at Javelina Jundred? Jason would probably eat them all because as every endurance athlete knows, hunger and logic are rarely training partners.
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🍫 Fueling the Funny Side of Endurance
Food isn’t only about carbs and calories; it’s about connection, memory, and the weird comfort of eating something that reminds you of being a kid.
That’s what makes Food Fight Friday so relatable. Between the laughs about KFC gravy conspiracies and “gateway condiments,” Jason and Adam reveal how food shapes our running experiences. Whether it’s race-day fuel gone wrong or post-run cravings that would horrify a dietician, the duo celebrates it all…imperfections and all.
Thanks to sponsors like 7 Summits Snacks, the conversation even dips into actual endurance fuel worth trying, like the Everest Bar, a goji berry–infused chocolate powerhouse that might finally make your mid-race nutrition something to look forward to.
🏃♂️ Why Endurance Athletes Love It
Endurance sports can get serious. Training blocks, recovery metrics, heart rate zones but Food Fight Friday reminds us to laugh at the absurdity of it all. It’s a reminder that endurance sports and food are supposed to be fun.
Because at the end of the day, whether you’re choosing between chicken nuggies or gels, the real win is showing up, sharing stories, and finding joy in the chaos.
So before your next long run, grab a snack, lace up your shoes, and tune in to Food Fight Friday at the Aid Station on the Everyday Athlete Podcast Network by Run Tri Bike. You’ll laugh, cringe, and maybe even rethink your next aid station strategy.
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