Marathon Hydration Plan: Water Stops, Cups and Carrying a Bottle
Build a marathon hydration plan around your pace, water stops, and the amount you actually drink, with cup math, bottle choices, and a course worksheet.
Read: Marathon Hydration Plan →Personalized, hour-by-hour fueling plans built from sports science — not guesswork. Adjusted for your body, your race, and your weather.
Every distance has different fueling demands. We account for that.
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Race type, target time, body weight, experience level. Takes about 60 seconds.
Hour-by-hour carb, fluid, and sodium targets — adjusted for race-day weather at your location.
Save your plan, export to PDF. Tape it to your bike, screenshot it for your watch. Go race.
Each plan is tailored to your body weight, race distance, target time, experience level, and predicted weather conditions.
Not just totals — exact targets for every hour of your race, with ramp-up pacing built in.
40–120 g/hr based on your experience level and gut tolerance, using glucose + fructose science.
Sweat rate estimation tuned by temperature, humidity, and intensity. Sodium dosing to match.
Auto-fetches forecast data for your race location. Plans adapt to heat, humidity, and rain risk.
Specific recommendations — gels, chews, drink mix, or real food — mapped to each hour.
Warnings for high heat, gut fatigue in long races, and hyponatremia risk — before race day.
Current sports science consensus for events over 2.5 hours, using dual-transport glucose + fructose pathways.
We estimate your losses and recommend 70–80% replacement — full replacement can cause more problems than it solves.
Remarkably consistent across paces. We use this to estimate your burn, then target 30–50% caloric replacement.
Sweat rate scales with temperature above 60°F. We model this alongside humidity to estimate your fluid needs.
Formulas based on Jeukendrup (2014), Sawka et al. (ACSM Position Stand), Gagge & Stolwijk sweat models, and current ISSN guidelines. All calculation logic is open and testable — no black boxes.
Build a marathon hydration plan around your pace, water stops, and the amount you actually drink, with cup math, bottle choices, and a course worksheet.
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All calculation logic is transparent and unit-tested. You can see exactly how your plan is built.
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