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Families and teams with away meets, invitationals, and two-day multis.
Fueling on Buses, in Hotels, and Through Six-Hour Track Meets
The plan that works in your kitchen has to survive a bus, a buffet, and six hours of bleachers.
PDF ebook · ~30 pages (est.) · print-ready worksheets: away-meet timeline, three packing lists (athlete bag, team cooler, parent tent), and the between-events decision card
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The problem this solves
The plan that works in your kitchen has to survive a bus, a buffet, and six hours of bleachers. Away meets are where good fueling falls apart — unless the whole trip is decided in advance.
This guide decides it: the Meet-Day Fueling Windows, bus rules by ride length, the hotel breakfast play, and between-events fueling for doubles and relays. Packing lists included; improvising optional.
Inside this guide
Public preview
When the designed edition ships, its public preview shows The bus column of the away-meet Matrix — one hero page, never the whole artifact. Away meets are where good fueling falls apart — so this guide decides the whole trip in advance: the Meet-Day Fueling Windows table, bus rules by ride length, the hotel breakfast play, between-events fueling for doubles and relays, and hydration through a six-hour meet. Packing lists included; improvising optional.
Families and teams with away meets, invitationals, and two-day multis.
The plan that works in your kitchen has to survive a bus, a buffet, and six hours of bleachers.
Print the lists. Tape the card to the cooler. Travel boring.
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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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