In triathlon, fuelling mistakes can be costly – jeopardising months of training in a matter of minutes. Yet with hundreds, if not thousands, of tips and tricks online about how to fuel for performance…
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Writer, runner, and cyclist, India Paine is a freelance contributor to TRI247.
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