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The Race Week Bundle · $49
Three guides that solve the whole week — the seven-day plan, the away-meet logistics, and the nervous stomach — so race morning is boring, which is exactly the goal.
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The problem
The race is five days out, and the questions have started. What’s for dinner Friday? When’s breakfast if the gun is at 8? Does a 5K need a carb load? Somebody’s teammate swears by a powder; somebody’s uncle ran a marathon once. Everyone has advice, and none of it agrees.
The honest answer is calmer than the internet: a high school race week needs one day of carb emphasis (not a marathoner’s multi-day load), one familiar dinner, one practiced morning — and nothing new on race day.
And when the meet is two hours away with a 5 AM bus and a six-hour wait between events, the plan has to survive the trip. That part is logistics, and logistics can be decided in advance.
What you get
Seven Days of Fueling Decisions, Solved. The Countdown Board, the one-day carb emphasis that fits a 5K, the race-eve dinner, morning timelines for 8 AM, 10 AM, and 4 PM starts, and the liquid plan for nervous appetites.
Fueling on Buses, in Hotels, and Through Six-Hour Track Meets. The Meet-Day Fueling Windows, bus rules by ride length, the hotel breakfast play, doubles and relays gap by gap, and three reusable packing lists.
Race-Day Gut Comfort for Sensitive Runners. The Gut Comfort Ladder, the 48-hour low-risk plan, sensitive-stomach race menus (including all-liquid), and gut training in practice.
Together: every meal, every bottle, and every hour from Monday to the finish line — plus print-ready boards, timelines, menu cards, and packing lists.
Families and athletes with meets on the calendar — especially away meets, invitationals, and championship season. Works for the 800 through the 10K.
Marathon or half-marathon prep (different carb rules — these books say so plainly); diagnosed GI conditions, which belong with your athlete’s physician and dietitian (the Calm Stomach Guide hands those off explicitly); anyone expecting supplements or caffeine protocols — there are none, by design. Already have Parent Access? Your subscription already includes these guides.
Racing all season? If your coach runs Aspire, use your team code — all of this and the full family library is covered. Not on a program yet? Direct Parent Access ($119/year or $14/month) is opening soon.
Written by the RD who coaches
Luke Rodriguez, MS, RDN — Registered Dietitian and Head XC Coach, Palmer Ridge High School (Colorado). He runs this exact race week with his own roster: same Countdown Board, same cooler, same three texts. Every number matches the Aspire canon and every Aspire tool. Youth-safe by design.
The books decide. The tools personalize.
Enter body weight and gun time in the free Race Morning Fuel builder and it returns the same main-meal, top-off, and last-hit splits the playbook teaches — personalized and printable. The Hydration Calculator handles meet-day fluids by weather and altitude.
The guides in this bundle
From seven days out to the cooldown jog — every meal, bottle, and hour, decided in advance.
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The plan that works in your kitchen has to survive a bus, a buffet, and six hours of bleachers.
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Fast legs shouldn’t lose to a nervous stomach.
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