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The Endurance Sports Nutrition Blueprint
A science-backed fueling system for athletes who want measurable performance gains over the next 12 months
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: Why Most Approaches Fail — and What Actually Works
You have done everything you were supposed to do. You bought the gels. You drank the water. You loaded up on pasta the night before a race. And yet you still find yourself bonking at mile 18 of a marathon, getting stomach cramps on a hard tempo run, or waking up after a 60-mile cycling week feeling like you have not slept for days.
This is not a problem of effort. It is not a problem of willpower. This is a problem of information - specifically, the wrong information repeated loudly enough that it has become received wisdom.
The endurance sports nutrition world is a churning sea of contradiction. One week, the loudest voice in your feed is declaring that carbohydrates are the devil. The next week, the same influencer is showing you their rice cake stack for a 100-miler. You read a science blog that says you need 90 grams of carbs per hour, but when you try it in training, you spend the next few hours regretting every life choice that led you to that moment. So you dial it back to a granola bar and a banana, and you wonder why you still feel empty.
You do not have a knowledge gap. You have a system gap.
Most athletes approach nutrition the way a novice decks out a toolbox: they buy a hammer and a screwdriver, and then they walk around applying the hammer to everything.