04/23/2026
🏃♀️ As you get closer to a race, your training shifts towards race-pace efforts and sessions specifically designed to stress the systems you'll rely on come race day. Those sessions are glycolytically expensive.
This is why carbohydrate targets go up in race season, why the taper is a loading phase and not a cutting phase, and why a flat macro split applied regardless of what's on your training schedule is leaving performance on the table.
If you're on Fuelin and wondering why your targets look the way they do, check this out.
If you're not on Fuelin yet, this is a good introduction to how we think.
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