Veganism and Running

There has been a recent trend with some well known ultra runners to dismiss the role of diet pertaining to their performance. One famous runner went so far to claim that training trumps diet. Now he's ten times the runner I am or ever will be - but he's also wrong. I discussed with this with him via email not to long ago and he told me that, yes, he is on a host a medication for health concerns but he also has a vegan friend with high blood pressure as well. I'm not sure how that justifies a bad diet other then helping ourselves feel better about poor choices. The fact of the matter is that vegans can (and do) make poor food choices along with their meat eating friends. It's a HEALTHY vegan diet that delivers superior results. I applaud all efforts to eliminate meat but I do believe that without the commitment to health these efforts will eventually fail as health fails along as well. And then the vegan diet is blamed. So my answer to the runners out there - even the faster and fastest - try it. For awhile. And then post results. I think you'll be surprised. But I won't/