The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) and Precision Fuel & Hydration have launched a new, free online tool that lets athletes create a personalised race nutrition strategy. According to the PTO, this will… ‘help them crush their next race and avoid a dreaded DNF (Did Not Finish).’
The Precision Fuel & Hydration Planner takes information about a race, the athlete and their goals and runs it through an algorithm. According to Precision, this is refined through more than 11 years of working with elite and age-group athletes around the world, to generate a tailored race nutrition plan covering how much carbohydrate, sodium and fluid to take in – including a step-by-step guide to hitting those numbers.
Athletes racing one of the inaugural PTO Tour races this summer – the inaugural PTO Canadian Open (July 23-24); the second edition of Collins Cup (August 20); and the first PTO US Open (September 17-18) – will receive detailed information about what Precision products will be available on-course and how to use them to help them on race day.
The free tool has been used by pro triathletes, including Emma Pallant-Browne (PTO World #8), Leon Chevalier (#12), Sam Appleton (#22) and Fenella Langridge (#22). These athletes used early versions of the tool, alongside the support of Precision’s Sports Science team, to refine their nutrition strategy approach – often called triathlon’s ‘Fourth Discipline’.
Emma Pallant-Browne said “Knowing how much carb, fluid and sodium I need to replace when I race makes it easier for me to stay fuelled and hydrated and produce my best performance.”
She added “My biggest tip would be to plan and to know your numbers, so that if you drop something you know how to make up for that. I’ve even started walking through aid stations to make sure I get in exactly what I need and it always pays off at the end of the run.”
Precision Fuel & Hydration Co-founder Andy Blow said “Our aim with the Fuel & Hydration Planner was to enable all athletes, everywhere, to have access to the same expertise as the pro athletes they enjoy watching, so that they can avoid common race nutrition mistakes and nail their performance when it matters most.”
PTO CEO Sam Renouf, said “Our joint ambition when we kicked off our ‘Death to DNF’ campaign with Precision Fuel & Hydration earlier this year was to reduce the DNF rate to zero at PTO Tour events – clearly a very ambitious target.
“But we believe the introduction of the new Precision Fuel & Hydration Planner at all our races will help all our racers move the DNF needle in the right direction.”
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