Why Eating Healthy Isn't Enough to Fuel a Triathlon with James Anderson

You can eat really good food all day long and still have no idea how to fuel a triathlon.

Dr James Anderson is a dentist, a Triathlon Nutrition Academy athlete and one of the most organised humans you will ever meet. Smoothie bags prepped in the freezer. Snack bags packed for every work day. Quality food, every single day. He was still eating the wrong things at the wrong time for three sports, and he had no idea until he went looking for the gaps. In this episode James shares what changed between joining the Academy and crossing the line at his first 70.3 in New Mexico, including the quadrathlon that scared him into taking the detail seriously, what carb loading and sodium loading did for his cramping and headaches, and the moment on the run where his fuel stopped working and he had to think his way to the finish line.

WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY

Why eating healthy and fuelling for triathlon are two completely different skills
What being super organised with food still misses when you are training for three sports
How conflicting advice online leaves smart, capable athletes stuck in paralysis by analysis
What carb loading and sodium loading did for a big athlete racing at altitude
How to troubleshoot on course when your race nutrition stops working, instead of taking a DNF
Why James is leaving his bike computer and Strava behind next time

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Eating well and fuelling for triathlon are not the same thing

00:33 Meet Dr James Anderson, dentist and TNA athlete

01:47 The bike shop moment and a very optimistic swim time

05:26 Fitting three sports around a full time job and a business

06:40 The Apple Blossom story

09:04 Organised, disciplined and eating the wrong things at the wrong time

10:40 Why a smart, capable guy could not work it out on his own

12:51 The Mount Taylor quadrathlon reality check

16:27 How the nutrition actually went at his first 70.3

19:16 Open water panic and the note in the swim cap

25:00 What he would do differently next time

29:18 The Power Hour crew and what is next

31:10 Nobody is born knowing this

GUEST

Dr James Anderson is a dentist based in New Mexico, USA, a Clydesdale age grouper and a Triathlon Nutrition Academy athlete who has just finished phase three of the program. He fell for the sport after seeing his first triathlon bike in a bike shop, raced sprint distance for three years and Olympic distance for two, and recently completed his first 70.3, the longest event he has ever raced. He is not on social media, so the best place to find him is in the TNA Power Hour.

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