HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Alanis Morissette wasn't alone when she recently decided to take on her first marathon.
"My twin brother [Wade] and I actually decided we wanted to do it in the same week, which is not very unusual for us because we're very telepathic," the 35-year-old singer tells Runner's World for its January issue. "We definitely have that twin thing. Within five days of each other, we both sent e-mails to each other saying, 'Let's do a marathon together.'"
The pair ran together in October's Bizz Johnson Trail Marathon in Susanville, Calif. While she had several triathlons under her belt, Morissette said training for the Bizz Johnson required to watch her diet and sleep more so she had plenty of energy.
"It's really about how I feel in my head and seeing the ebbs and flows of energy levels and how food directly affects my strength or sleep," she explains.
The singer also tells the mag that she's "about 90 percent vegan" these days and calls kale her new "best friend."
"I eat kale salad. I put kale in my smoothies, kale in my soup. Kale, kale, kale!" she says. "I feel like Popeye. I love it. I definitely need variety or I get super bored, so I have to mix it up with different sauces and tahini or whatever."
Morissette says her celebrity pals all think she's "nuts," but she hasn't completely given up her rock star ways.
"I still party and include a little debauchery and some indulgences because I have to," she says.
And how does she let loose?
"I occasionally indulge in red wine, and it's fun to have medical marijuana once in while," Morissette confesses. "I love making martinis for my friends, sitting around the fire and just hanging out. Sometimes I'll go dancing, but mostly it's just all about socially getting together and playing games. Going on road trips is always great."
Morissette's running is also for a good cause. She ran November's New York City Marathon with actor Edward Norton on behalf of the Maasai Wilderness Conversation Trust, while she represented National Eating Disorders in her Bizz Johnson run.
"I struggled with eating disorders, especially in my teen years," she shares. "It's very personal. And I have noticed when I treat my body like an instrument instead of an ornament, my relationship with food completely changes because I view food as this really romantic fuel. I certainly want to enjoy my food, but I see it more like fuel that I happen to enjoy versus just a way for me to numb out my feelings or to downward spiral into being addicted to food."
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