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Athlete and parent together — the family’s first Aspire guide.
The Complete Nutrition System for High School Distance Runners
The start-here book: every fueling decision of a runner’s season, solved in one system.
PDF ebook · ~70 pages (est.) · 7 print-ready worksheets
Designed edition shipping soon — request it now, pay only when it’s ready to deliver.
The problem this solves
Every season, talented runners fade in October — not from lack of effort, but from an empty tank nobody noticed being empty. Lunch at 11:30, practice at 3:45, nothing in between. A skipped breakfast here, a missed recovery snack there. The training was never the problem.
Most of the advice out there doesn’t help. It’s either too vague to act on (“eat healthy, drink more water”) or written for adult marathoners — different bodies, different schedules, different needs than a growing sixteen-year-old with a first-period class and a 5K on Saturday.
Here’s the calmer truth: this is rarely a willpower problem. It’s an availability-and-timing problem, and those are solvable with a system a family can actually run — five decisions a day, a 20-minute Sunday reset, and a plate that scales with the training log.
Inside this guide
Public preview
When the designed edition ships, its public preview shows The Week-at-a-Glance table plus 10 of the 75 snack-locker foods — one hero page, never the whole artifact. The complete nutrition system for high school distance runners and their parents — daily plates, school-day logistics, practice hydration, race week, and recovery, all matching the Aspire tools. Built around The Runner’s Day: five decisions on one photographable page. No supplements, no weight talk — just the system a dietitian-coach runs with his own team.
Athlete and parent together — the family’s first Aspire guide.
The start-here book: every fueling decision of a runner’s season, solved in one system.
Scope and safety
General education for healthy adolescent athletes — no supplement protocols, no weight talk; medical questions route to your athlete’s physician.
No dosing. No diagnosis. No body talk. That’s the standard across every Aspire guide.
Start here — read it this week, run better by Friday’s practice.
Make it a bundle: The Parent Bundle — $59 · The Athlete Bundle — $59
Want everything, all season? If your team runs Aspire, use your team code — it’s covered. Not on a program yet? The bundles are the fastest start today, and Parent Access — $119/year or $14/month is opening soon. Coaches and programs should see Program Access — $590/year.
The guide teaches. The tools personalize.
Written by the RD who coaches
Luke Rodriguez, MS, RDN is a Registered Dietitian and the Head Cross Country Coach at Palmer Ridge High School in Colorado. He writes the training plans and answers the parent emails — every practice, every season, at 7,000 feet. Every number in this guide comes from one science canon — the same one that runs Aspire’s software. The book and the tools never disagree.
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