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Or read straight down. Everything you see is a worked example built around one fictional athlete.
One athlete, and everything the hub knows about her
A Partner keeps a profile for each athlete they coach. The hub reads it before answering, so advice fits the person in front of you rather than a generic endurance athlete. This one is invented for the preview.
Maya Holt
Outlaw Half (70.3) — first middle distance · 11 July 2027
- Gut history
- Has never taken more than about 40 g of carbohydrate an hour, and has not tested a drink mix on a long session.
- Fuelling now
- One gel every 45 minutes on the run and whatever is on the aid station table. Breakfast is porridge two hours before, but she skips it for anything starting before 7am.
- Practical notes
- Trains before work four mornings a week and long sessions at the weekend. Two children, so weekday cooking has to be quick and the family eats together. Dislikes bananas. No allergies.
Her training week
The hub reads this on every answer, so a Tuesday interval session and a Saturday long ride are never fuelled the same way.
- MondayRestFamily day
- TuesdayBike — intervals60 min, RPE 7, before work
- WednesdayRun — easy45 min, RPE 4
- ThursdaySwim45 min technique, RPE 5
- FridayStrength45 min, RPE 6
- SaturdayBike — long3 hr endurance, RPE 5
- SundayRun — long90 min steady, RPE 6
A demonstration profile, not a real athlete and not personalised advice. In the hub you add your own athletes, and only you can see them.
A second opinion that already knows your athlete
The assistant answers as a peer coach, with the athlete's profile in front of it, so you are not re-explaining who they are every time. These four exchanges were prepared in advance for this preview.
What carbs per hour should Maya Holt be taking on the bike leg?
For race day, Maya wants to be in the 60-90g/hr range on the bike — that's the standard target for 70.3 distance, and she's got 9 months to get there comfortably.
Right now she's only proven at about 40g/hr, so that's the gap to close. The bike is actually the easier place to build this than the run, since it's easier on the gut than running — so it's a good leg to push her ceiling.
Next step: get a drink mix (glucose + fructose) into a long ride soon, starting around 50-60g/hr since she's never tested one, and see how she handles it. Once that's clean, step up by 10-15g/hr every couple of long rides.
Want me to sketch out a gut-training progression for her over the next few months?
She has never gone above 40 g/hr. How do I build her up before July?
Start her around 45-50g/hr on her next couple of long sessions and build from there — jumping straight to race-target numbers from a 40g/hr baseline is how you get gut distress. With 9 months out, you've got loads of runway, so there's no need to rush this.
The big shift needed is moving her off "one gel every 45 minutes" and onto a drink mix with glucose+fructose, since that's what lets her push past the 40-60g/hr range without maxing out a single sugar pathway. She's never tested a mix on a long session, so that's priority one — introduce it on a low-stakes weekend long ride or run, not race-adjacent volume.
Rough progression: bump by 5-10g/hr every 1-2 weeks on her long sessions only (keep weekday sessions as-is, she doesn't need volume there), reassess gut response each time. By 3-4 months out you want her comfortably sitting at 70-80g/hr on long sessions with zero issues, which gives margin to nail 70-90g/hr for race day itself.
One other thing worth fixing early — she skips breakfast for early starts, which means she's fasted going into sessions where you're also asking her gut to handle more carbs than it's used to. Might be worth a small pre-session carb hit (even 20-30g, something easy) before those early sessions once you start pushing intake up.
Want me to lay out a month-by-month build so you've got something concrete to follow?
What should she eat the morning of the race, and when?
For a 70.3 start (likely early morning, probably 6-7am given the distance), she needs 2-3 hours between eating and the gun — so if it's a 6:30am start, breakfast around 4-4:30am. That's the first thing to sort out, because her current habit is to skip breakfast for anything before 7am, and race day isn't the day to start experimenting with a fasted start.
Aim for roughly 80-100g of carbs at that meal — something like her usual porridge but with extra toppings (honey, jam, dried fruit) to hit that number, since a slightly larger portion than her weekday version. Low fibre, low fat, keep it simple and familiar. If getting up that early to eat properly feels rough, a smaller meal plus a carb drink sipped in the last hour can bridge the gap.
Given she's never tested more than 40g/hr and hasn't used a drink mix on a long ride, the bigger project here is building her gut tolerance well before race week — the breakfast timing is easy to fix, the fuelling capacity is the real work. Want me to build out a gut-training progression alongside the race morning routine?
She trains before work without breakfast. Is that a problem?
Depends on the session, but for anything key — especially gut-training work — yes, it's worth fixing. Training fully fasted is fine for easy aerobic spins where the goal is just time on feet/bike, but if she's trying to push her carb tolerance up from that 40g/hr ceiling, she needs some fuel on board and in her gut to actually train the gut, not just her legs.
Also worth flagging: skipping breakfast before early sessions means she's probably under-fuelled for the harder efforts too, which can make pacing and RPE feel worse than it should — not just a nutrition issue but a performance one.
Practical fix that suits her schedule: she doesn't need a full porridge sit-down. A small pre-session carb hit — even 20-30g from something quick like a gel, a slice of toast, or a banana... actually skip that last one — 20-30g from a gel or toast eaten in the 15 minutes before rolling out, even half-asleep, is enough to top up liver glycogen and get her gut used to processing carbs early. That's a much easier habit to build than a 2-hour-before breakfast on a 5:30am alarm.
Want me to fold this into her gut-training progression so it lines up with the carb-tolerance building you're already planning?
Written answers, prepared in advance for this preview — nothing is being generated while you read, and asking your own questions is part of the Partner account.
Demonstration answers about a fictional athlete, not personalised advice. The assistant supports a coach's own judgement; it does not replace it.
The whole season, mapped back from race day
Add an athlete's events and the planner works backwards from each race date, putting every nutrition milestone — baseline, gut training, product testing, race rehearsal, taper, carb loading, race morning, review — on one timeline with the tool that does each job.
Maya Holt · Outlaw Half
70.3 on 11 Jul 2027 · 12 nutrition milestones, worked back from race day
- Establish your fuelling baseline11 Apr 2027Baseline
Review current carbohydrate tolerance, previous GI symptoms and existing race-fuelling habits.
Next: Write down your current carbs per hour, any GI symptoms you get, and what you actually ate in your last event.
- Start structured gut training18 Apr 2027Gut
Begin progressively practising carbohydrate intake during suitable training sessions.
Next: Download the 13-Week Gut Training Protocol and schedule your first fuelled long session.
- Find the products that work for you16 May 2027Practice
Trial different gels, drinks and real foods in training and settle on the ones your gut handles well.
Next: Pick two or three options, use them in your long sessions, and log how each one sits.
- Practise your pre-event meal30 May 2027Meal
Test the timing, portion size and food choices you expect to use before the event.
Next: Build your pre-event meal in PreFuel and eat it before a hard session.
- Complete a full race rehearsal13 Jun 2027Rehearsal
Practise your intended pre-event meal and race-fuelling structure during an appropriate long session.
Next: Run the full sequence in one long session and record exactly what you took and how you felt.
- Review your personalised targets20 Jun 2027Baseline
Confirm estimated carbohydrate requirements and identify any remaining preparation gaps.
Next: Run your weight, duration and intensity through the carb calculator.
- Finalise your event nutrition27 Jun 2027Plan
Lock down meals, products, timings, travel requirements and race-morning arrangements.
Next: Get your personalised event day plan built around your body weight, your event and your food.
- Taper nutrition begins27 Jun 2027Taper
Match nutrition to the reduced training load while maintaining carbohydrate availability.
Next: Confirm your taper start date with your coach, then adjust intake to match.
- Carb-loading preparation8 Jul 2027Load
Finalise food shopping, meal timing and the appropriate loading structure.
Next: Calculate your loading target, then buy exactly what it needs.
- Carb loading10 Jul 2027Load
Follow the planned meal structure and avoid introducing unfamiliar foods.
Next: Follow the loading guide, meal by meal.
- Pre-event meal and snack11 Jul 2027Race
Follow the meal, snack and hydration timings already practised.
Next: Follow your PreFuel timings from wake-up to start line.
- Review what worked13 Jul 2027Review
Record fuelling, energy, product tolerance and any GI symptoms to improve the next event.
Next: Write it down below while you still remember it, then log the session in Carb Coach.
Worked out as at 29 Sept 2026. In the hub each milestone carries a due badge and links to the tool that does the work, and you tick them off as the season runs.
Real output from the Season Planner's own milestone engine, for a fictional athlete. Add an athlete's events and the same plan appears for them, with the week before each race already mapped.
A week of food, costed to the gram
Partners build a week around an athlete's training, their food preferences and their life. Every gram is priced from the NooMinds food database, so the totals are the plan's own arithmetic rather than an estimate. This week is real output, built for Craig Elliott on his own training week and shared with permission.
Monday
Cardio gym (HIIT / circuits), 60 min, RPE 8Asked for 2819 kcal · 352g carbs · 157g protein · at least 87g fat. The planner sets each day from that day's own training.
Tap a meal to see the foods and portions.
The tools your athletes would use
Four tools sit behind the Partnership, each answering one question an athlete actually asks. Every example below is real output, generated once for this preview on Craig Elliott's own figures rather than written by hand.
Session Carb Calculator
Example outputHow much carbohydrate an athlete needs per hour for one session, from its length, effort, their weight, age and sex.
carbohydrate during the session
Carb Loading Calculator
Example outputWhether an event needs carb loading at all, and if so the protocol, the daily carbohydrate target and the fibre limit that goes with it.
carbohydrate on day 1 (24 hours before event)
Pre-Workout Plan
Example outputA week of pre-session meals and snacks, grouped by session type and length, with prep steps and a shopping list in raw weights.
PRE-WORKOUT NUTRITION GUIDE — CRAIG
Week of: Example Week | Age: 50 | Weight: 87kg | Height: 183cm | Goal: Fuel consistent training around a full-time job
STEP 1: ATHLETE PROFILE & BASELINE CALCULATIONS
BMR (Mifflin-St Jeor): (10 × 87) + (6.25 × 183) − (5 × 50) + 5 = 870 + 1,144 − 250 + 5 = 1,769 kcal/day
Weekly Training Volume: 90 + 60 + 60 = 210 minutes (3.5 hours) → Lightly Active (1.375 multiplier)
Daily Baseline: 1,769 × 1.375 = 2,432 kcal/day
STEP 2: SESSION ANALYSIS & TIER ASSIGNMENT
| Session | Activity | Duration | In
Event Day Plan
Example outputThe loading days before an event and the morning itself: meals with weights, timing counted back from the start, and a shopping list.
Event Day Nutrition Plan
Craig | Cycling sportive | 2027-06-12
| Detail | |
|---|---|
| Athlete | Craig |
| Weight | 87 kg |
| Event | Cycling sportive |
| Date | 2027-06-12 |
| Start Time | 07:00 |
| Protocol | 24-hour Carb Load |
| Daily Carb Target | 783g (9g/kg bodyweight) |
This 24-hour carb load plan loads 783g of carbohydrate to fuel your glycogen stores ahead of your 5-hour Cycling sportive on 2027-06-12. This plan is built for maximum glycogen storage ahead of your event.
WHAT THIS PLAN GIVES YOU
[ ] Meal-by-meal loading plan with exact ingredients and weights
Real output from the tools as they stand, generated once for this preview on Craig Elliott's own figures and shared with his permission. Nothing is generated while you browse, and the tools themselves open separately on noominds.com with your Partner account.
Gut training your athletes can actually follow
Carb Coach turns fuelling into a progression: log the session, prove the rate, unlock the next one. It is a separate app, free for Partners, and your athletes keep their own accounts.
Gut training, tier by tier
An athlete moves up when their own logged sessions earn it
- Foundation40–75 g/hrWhere every athlete starts
The traditional range, and the base an athlete has to prove before the app opens anything higher.
- Optimised60–90 g/hrAfter 5 qualifying sessions
Unlocked by evidence in the log, not by choosing it: sessions at the rate, without gut symptoms.
- Elite75–120 g/hrAfter 8 qualifying sessions
The dual-transporter range, for athletes whose logged sessions show they can absorb it.
Two rules worth knowing
Tolerance is the best an athlete has done, never an average.
Carb Coach reads the highest rate they have held for an hour or more without gut symptoms. An average would drag that down with every easy or deliberately low-carb session, and understate what their gut has already proved.
The next target is a step, not a leap.
Their next session is set 10% above what they last tolerated, rounded to the nearest 2.5 g/hr and never above the target their event actually needs.
Carb Coach is a separate app at app.noominds.com. Partners get it as part of the Partnership and open it from the hub already signed in; athletes keep their own accounts and their own logs.
Your branding on the PreFuel page your athletes use
Your athletes reach the four PreFuel tools through a page carrying your coaching brand. The Meal Planner, Carb Coach and the Coach Pro Assistant are tools you use with your athletes, and are not part of the branded page.
What your athletes would open
Example branding- Session Carb CalculatorOpen
- Carb Loading CalculatorOpen
- Pre-Workout PlanOpen
- Event Day PlanOpen
Ridgeway Coaching is invented for this preview.
- Your name and branding on the PreFuel page your athletes use
- The four PreFuel tools: session carbs, carb loading, pre-workout and event day
- A link you can put in a training plan or a welcome email
A representative panel rather than a live page: real Partner pages belong to real businesses and their athletes.
Endurance Nutrition for Coaches
Seven modules written for coaches who already understand training and want the fuelling side to match. One lesson is shown in full below.
The Fuelling Gap
45 minutes + quizWhy most coached athletes are chronically under-fuelled, and how to spot it
- Explain why sports nutrition has historically been inaccessible to most endurance athletes and coaches, and why that is now changing
- Define the Fuelling Gap and explain its root causes at both a psychological and physiological level
- Understand the performance consequences of chronic under-fuelling across a training block
The Gut-Performance Connection
45 minutes + quizUnderstanding why GI distress is a coaching problem, not just a nutrition problem
- Explain why the gut is a performance organ with five distinct functions, not just a digestive system
- Describe the specific physiological mechanisms through which exercise stresses the gut
- Understand how blood flow redistribution during intense exercise affects nutrient absorption and gut permeability
Carbohydrate Mastery
45 minutes + quizThe fuelling framework that turns good training into great racing
- Explain why carbohydrate is the non-negotiable primary fuel for endurance exercise above moderate intensity, and why fat adaptation does not change this at race pace
- Apply the five-band RPE fuelling framework to calculate carbohydrate targets for athletes of different body weights, session durations, and intensities
- Understand the specific role of session duration in fuelling strategy, including the key thresholds at 60, 90, and 180 minutes
Low FODMAP Fuelling
45 minutes + quizThe protocol that resolves GI distress most coaches have never been taught to address
- Explain what FODMAPs are, why they cause GI symptoms, and why athletes are particularly vulnerable to their effects during exercise
- Identify the high FODMAP ingredients most commonly found in sports nutrition products and everyday pre-race foods
- Distinguish between the clinical Low FODMAP elimination diet and the athletic Low FODMAP performance protocol, and understand when each applies
Race Day Systems
45 minutes + quizA complete execution framework for turning training nutrition into race performance
- Identify the three distinct failure modes of race day nutrition and explain what drives each one
- Structure the pre-race week, including taper nutrition, carbohydrate loading, and pre-race dietary management, as a coherent system
- Build a race morning nutrition protocol that accounts for timing, anxiety response, and individual athlete tolerance
Athlete Assessment
45 minutes + quizThe conversations, audit frameworks, and documentation that turn knowledge into coaching
- Explain why athletes resist nutrition conversations and apply the framing approaches that open those conversations rather than closing them
- Conduct the six-area nutrition audit across a coaching relationship, gathering a comprehensive picture of an athlete's nutrition without interrogating them
- Identify the five most common athlete nutrition patterns and understand the coaching implications of each
Implementation
45 minutes + practical assessmentHow to add nutrition coaching to your practice — simply, professionally, and permanently
- Describe the minimum effective nutrition coaching addition to an existing coaching service and explain why simplicity is a feature rather than a limitation
- Integrate nutrition check-ins, event nutrition planning, and athlete profile management into your existing coaching rhythms without significantly increasing workload
- Articulate the value of nutrition coaching clearly and confidently to prospective and current athletes, and present it as a central service component rather than an add-on
7 modules, each with a quiz. The lessons, quizzes and the final practical assessment are part of the Partnership and are not shown here.
One section of 8, shown in full
What Is The Fuelling Gap?
The Fuelling Gap is the difference between the energy an athlete expends during training and competition, and the energy they actually consume.
That sounds straightforward. It is not.
The gap is not just about total daily calories. It is specifically about the availability of the right fuel, predominantly carbohydrate, at the right time, in the right amounts, to support the training demands being placed on the body. An athlete can be eating perfectly adequate daily calories and still have a significant Fuelling Gap if those calories are not timed and structured to support what they are doing in training.
Research from endurance sport consistently shows that amateur athletes under-fuel during long training sessions by anywhere from 30 to 50 percent. Let that number sit for a moment. They are doing the work, but they are only putting in half the fuel it takes to do that work properly. The rest is being pulled from muscle glycogen stores, from protein, from wherever the body can find it. And that comes at a cost.
The Fuelling Gap is not a niche problem. It is not something that only affects new athletes or people who do not care about their nutrition. I have worked with athletes who have been competing for twenty years, who own every piece of kit going, who have obsessively monitored their training metrics, and who have been chronically under-fuelling for every one of those twenty years because nobody ever told them otherwise.
It is the most common performance-limiting problem in amateur endurance sport. And it is almost entirely fixable.
Before we look at the science, let us understand why the gap exists in the first place. Because the reasons are important. They tell you how to have the conversation with your athletes, and where the resistance is likely to come from when you do.
The rest of Module 1, the other 6 modules, the quizzes and the final practical assessment come with the Partnership.
Discuss · Innovate · Create · Deliver
The part you cannot buy anywhere else: a private room of coaches working the same problems, where raising something is how the fix starts. Craig built NooMinds to answer his own athletes' problems — the forum is how Partners get to do the same.
Discuss · Innovate · Create · Deliver
Raise a problem you are seeing with athletes or clients, and we work it through together, build the fix and put it in every Partner's hands. Every NooMinds Nutrition Partner can join in.
- Discuss
Raise what you are hitting with a real athlete. Other coaches have usually hit it too.
- Innovate
Work out what would actually help, between coaches who do this every week rather than in a vacuum.
- Create
Craig builds it. Several of the tools in this preview started as a coach asking for them.
- Deliver
It ships to every Partner, not just to whoever asked.
Where conversations go
The forum's actual sections
- AnnouncementsNews and updates from Craig.
- Ideas & innovationWhat should NooMinds build or change next? Pitch it here.
- Tools & feedbackThe Meal Planner, PreFuel tools and Coach Pro — what works, what does not.
- Client casesAnonymised cases and what you learned. Never share anything that identifies a client.
- IntroductionsSay hello: who you work with and what you specialise in.
- GeneralEverything else.
What gets talked about
Example discussionShare challenges, contribute ideas and help shape practical improvements alongside coaches and nutrition professionals. Craig reads every suggestion; which ones get built is his call, and the forum carries no ownership or share of anything sold.
What the Partnership costs
A one-off joining fee, then an annual update that keeps your Partner benefits active. No monthly platform subscription.
One-off founding rate
Annual update, keeps Partner benefits active
- Endurance Nutrition for Coaches — seven modules, each with a quiz
- The Coach Pro Assistant, with a profile for every athlete you coach
- The Practitioner Meal Planner
- A branded PreFuel page for your athletes, with the four PreFuel tools
- Carb Coach, free while you are a Partner
- The Partner Innovate Forum
The Meal Planner is free while it is being tested, with up to 20 plan builds a month. Prices are the founding-cohort rates and will change once the Partnership is established; what is listed here is what exists today.
A call is optional — ask by message if that suits you better.