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      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What does this mean: Training Nutrition Works by Strategic Restraint, Not Maximisation?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "In training, particularly base and threshold work, there is genuine value in not always riding fully fuelled. Completing moderate sessions in a lower glycogen state can stimulate adaptations in fat oxidation and metabolic flexibility."
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    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What does this mean: Race Day Inverts the Entire Nutritional Logic?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "When the objective shifts from adaptation to performance, the calculation doesn't just change, it reverses. A professional cyclist in a one-day classic or a stage race is not trying to stimulate anything."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What does this mean: The Gut Becomes a Performance Variable, Not Just a Passenger?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "At high race intensities, the gut's capacity to absorb carbohydrate becomes a genuine performance ceiling, one that can be trained. Elite riders deliberately practise high-carbohydrate intake on hard training days specifically so the digestive system can handle race-day volumes without distress."
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    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What does this mean: Applying Training-Day Habits to Race Day Is a Specific, Fixable Error?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "The gap between professional and amateur doesn't make this irrelevant, it makes it more instructive. Club cyclists and competitive amateurs routinely underperform in events because they carry training-day restraint into race-day demands."
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    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How can I put this into practice for better cycling race day nutrition?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Treat fuelling as part of your preparation, not an afterthought. The science only helps when it is applied consistently: plan around your training and competition, fuel before you feel you need to, and review what works for you over time. Science in Sport products are designed to make evidence-based fuelling simple to get right, so you arrive prepared and perform with confidence."
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