Scott Jurek
Scott Gordon Jurek, (born October 26, 1973), is an American ultramarathoner, New York Times bestselling author of Eat & Run, and public speaker.
Jurek has followed a vegetarian diet since 1997, and a vegan diet since 1999.
Vegan advocacy
He is an advocate of plant-based eating for health and ethical/environmental reasons, and he cites his diet as the key to his athletic performance and recovery. He gave up eating meat in 1997 and became totally plant based in 1999, motivated by the belief that poor nutrition was responsible for the chronic illnesses he saw in his family and in his physical therapy patients.
Books
Eat & Run
Jurek co-authored a memoir with Steve Friedman titled Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness. It was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on June 5, 2012. Eat & Run was a New York Times bestseller "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2015-07-12, debuting at no.7 in hardback non-fiction and remained in the bestseller lists into the next month.
It relates Jurek's childhood in Minnesota, his growing interest in sport, family life and career. It also covers his change in eating habits, from a standard meat-eating diet through to vegetarianism and finally becoming a vegan. Each chapter ends with one of his favorite vegan recipes.
It has been translated into twenty different languages.
North
He wrote a follow-up book, North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail, with his wife Jenny Jurek in 2018 about his attempt at the fastest known time on the Appalachian Trail.