396 - Race Season Fueling: Your Performance Nutrition Playbook with Megan Foley, RD

Purple Patch Podcast

Matt Dixon

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Purple Patch Podcast! On this episode, IRONMAN Master Coach Matt Dixon and Fuelin's Megan Foley discuss nutrition strategies for endurance athletes as race season approaches. Megan emphasizes the importance of periodizing nutrition to match training intensity, highlighting the need for adequate carbohydrate intake. She warns against focusing solely on race weight, as it can compromise performance. Megan advises athletes to practice race-day fueling gradually, starting with shorter sessions and gradually increasing intake. She also stresses the importance of rest, sleep, and a balanced diet. For race week, she recommends maintaining usual eating habits, planning carbohydrate loading, and ensuring access to nutritious food at the race location.

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0:00.0	Just before we get going with the show, it's a terrific one today. We're digging into nutrition and fueling for endurance athletes, particularly as we march into race season. We welcome Megan Foley of the Fueling team.
0:13.4	If you'd like to continue the conversation around your nutritional journey and then head to Purple Patch Fitness, go up to the virtual services. We'll put the link in
0:21.9	the show note and you can read everything about fueling and their services. It's our most
0:26.9	trusted partner around fueling and nutrition for endurance athletes. You can also reach out
0:32.6	directly to their team. Just mention that you heard about it on this podcast. They'll take great
0:37.4	care of you.
0:38.3	Info at Fuelin.com. And with a broader perspective, if you'd like to talk about your performance
0:43.9	journey and you'd like to set up a complementary consultation with us, we would be happy.
0:49.4	And it would be absolutely free, both in terms of pressure and of course finances, for us to execute a
0:56.2	needs assessment, to have a conversation with you about your performance journey and how we might
1:00.3	be able to help. All you need to do is head to purplepatchfitness.com slash coaching consult.
1:07.9	If you having troubles with that, well, you can always email us as well. Info at
1:11.9	Purple PatchFitness.com. We'll set up a call. We'll see how we're at fit. And if nothing else,
1:17.3	make sure that you leave with a clear path of what you need to do to go and be successful in your
1:22.6	performance journey. All right, enjoy the show. I'm Matt Dixon and welcome to the Purple Patch podcast.
1:28.9	The mission of Purple Patch is to empower and educate every human being to reach their athletic potential.
1:34.7	Through the lens of athletic potential, you reach your human potential.
1:38.7	The purpose of this podcast is to help time-starved people everywhere in a great sport into life.
1:53.5	And welcome to the Purple Patch podcast, as ever, your host Matt Dixon.
1:58.4	And today, it's a cracker.
2:00.6	We get to welcome back fuelin. We've had Scott
2:03.9	Tyndall on the show many times, but we're actually broadening our perspective. Today we get to
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