{"id":35446,"date":"2025-04-22T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/?p=35446"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T02:21:39","slug":"fuelling-a-record-breaker-how-my-food-bag-played-a-part-in-sam-ruthes-historic-sub-4-minute-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/2025\/04\/22\/fuelling-a-record-breaker-how-my-food-bag-played-a-part-in-sam-ruthes-historic-sub-4-minute-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuelling a Record-Breaker: How My Food Bag Played a Part in Sam Ruthe\u2019s Historic Sub-4 Minute Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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At My Food Bag, we\u2019ve always believed that good food is the fuel for eating and living well. And sometimes \u2013 and in this case – it fuels history.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re incredibly proud to have been part of Sam Ruthe’s journey – the young Kiwi sprinter who recently became the youngest person in history to run a mile in under four minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam and his family have been My Food Bag customers for over a decade. For ten years, we\u2019ve delivered simple, healthy & delicious meals to their home – meals that have not only made weeknights easier by helping to take the planning and organising of nutritious, healthy meals off their hands, but has also helped lay the foundation for a future champion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy Food Bag always provides plenty of healthy vegetables and this has helped Sam develop a taste for healthy, nutritious, varied eating.<\/em>\u201d says Sam\u2019s dad, Ben Ruthe. “We also really appreciate the time-saving in our busy lives knowing that healthy dinner plans are taken care of.<\/em>\u201d Sam\u2019s favourite My Food Bag dinner? Our Build Your Own Chicken Wraps \u2013 a family-favourite for many of our foodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Sam\u2019s family put it, \u201cMy Food Bag has provided nutritious and delicious meals to Sam and our family for a decade now. The broad range of meals has helped our children develop a taste for a variety of healthy food options. With diet being one of the key ingredients to athletic performance, we have no doubt that My Food Bag has contributed to Sam\u2019s success.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The night before that record-breaking race? It wasn\u2019t anything fancy, it was My Food Bag\u2019s \u2018Build Your Own Vietnamese Chicken Bowl\u2019 shared at the family table. A delicious dinner using real, healthy & nutritious ingredients the Ruthe family have come to love. As the age-old saying goes, why fix what isn\u2019t broken?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was our choice to fuel him with My Food Bag as his last dinner the night before becoming the world\u2019s youngest person in history to break the 4-minute mile.<\/em>\u201d said Ben Ruthe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From family meals to fueling world-class moments, it\u2019s stories like Sam\u2019s that remind us why we do what we do. We couldn\u2019t be more thrilled for Sam and the entire Ruthe family \u2014 and we\u2019ll be cheering loudly as he continues to chase his dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At My Food Bag, we\u2019ve always believed that good food is the fuel for eating and living well. And sometimes \u2013 and in this case – it fuels history. We\u2019re incredibly proud to have been part of Sam Ruthe’s journey – the young Kiwi sprinter who recently became the youngest person in history to run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":35447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2353,2354],"tags":[1847],"class_list":["post-35446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-my-food-bag","tag-my-food-bag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35446"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35459,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446\/revisions\/35459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfoodbag.co.nz\/explore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}