Gout

Your kidneys are not cleaning the uric acid as they should, you should try not eating any starchy food for a while. No bread, pasta, rice or potatoes, it will help your kidneys and should help get rid of your extra uric acid.

Worked for me in the past, now I only eat starchy food on occasions and it has not returned in over a year. I saw improvements after two weeks of no starch.

Yes, asparagus is also a trigger for my friend. I knew there was a veggie in there. He drinks cherry juice and lots of water.

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to share my experience.  I am 40 and have been getting into 1/2 marathons and tris this year.  I've always had gout in my toe (controllable with some anti-inflammatories).  All of a sudden, I got a series of attacks on my whole foot.  Here's what the doctor advised and it makes sense:

1.  Give full time for recovery.  Gout likes to go where you are weak and where it's been before.  So if you start exercising as soon as you feel better but still sore, you will re-inflame the injury and it will be worse the second time (trust me!!!).

2.  Each time you have a flare up, it is weakening that joint - so get swelling under control IMMEDIATELY.  Don't try to be a hero and push through it.  Each time you have a prolonged attack you are doing more (irreparable, long term) damage to the area.  The pain is temporary; damage is not.

3.  Some people do not have foods or uric acid trigger outbreaks.  I am a vegetarian and still get it.

4.  Remember life is a full game - you don't want to try to push too hard and then be pulled out in the third quarter.  That might mean readjusting training and expectations.  Don't give up dreams and goals, but make one of your goals to be active well into old age - so that 70.3 could still be a go, but maybe you focus more on the swim and bike than the run for example.

i use to get it every 4 -5 months but since ive lost weight (30kg) ive only had it once in 2 years and non in the last 12 months.

beer and tomato where my trigger

I don't have gout, but I have a buddy who says alcohol is his biggest trigger.  I wondered if it was actually the resulting dehydration, but he says he stayed off alcohol for 2 months and exercised almost every day (and was certainly dehydrated at parts) and no bouts with gout.  He then drank a couple of nights in a row and was laid up by Monday. 

Animal products seem to have a significant connection to gout. The mayo clinic has some great dietary guidelines here:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gout-diet/MY01137

And there are many more resources on the web. Best of luck, it can't be fun. But persist in a super healthy diet via the guidelines, and I've heard it can make quite a difference.

I have gout.  Seen this when I go from off season to prime season eating. My doctor said a change in diet might trigger it, probably the purtines stored in my body being released.  Besides drinking water, avoiding beer (light color beer), wine, and apparacu.  I've done the cherry juice, which does help, but when an attack happens for me no ammount of cherry juice helps.  However, I notice that eating strawberries does keep it in check, read online it helps.  I think the acid in the strawberries breaks down the uric acid in the blood.  Ciritic acid in fruit helps.  I'm not a chemistry major, but I thought water won't dulute ph acid levels, which explains when I have an attack, drinking a bunch of water doesn't help.  Good luck..gout can take out 2 weeks of training.