If you have limited carriage space and cannot leave a refill bottle in a safe space while you run, we currently recommend consuming a portion of your fuel/fluid mixture 15-30 minutes before you run. We are working on specific improvements to the app to allow athletes to indicate a limited carriage and then making specific recommendations for an amount to consume before the run. Stay tuned!

During training, kcal/hr is probably not a very useful metric.

The only meaningful source of calories that you should be consuming during training, is carbohydrate. Since you're not getting calories meaningfully from protein, fats or alcohol (presumably!) in trianing, it makes much more sense to just discuss carbs per hour, instead of kcal per hour.

Sure! Or don't! It's up to you! Saturday is not a daily calorie tracker, and Saturday recommends that if you're going to track your calories regularly, that you work with a professional, like a sports dietitian, to help you decide what level of daily tracking, monitoring, and analysis is important.

It's very common for endurance athletes to over-track, over-analyze, and mis-prescribe themselves for various reasons. Saturday believes that if you're going to be doing any kcal tracking, it should be relatively loose and relaxed, and the emphasis in the process overall should be on supporting the lifestyle you want to live and the activities you want to do, and not about restricting or a number on the scale or in your head.

Using plain table sugar can get REALLY sweet! Some people love that! Others... quite the opposite.

First, you can use a less sweet carb source. Maltodextrin is a good very-low-sweetness option for a powder to add to your drink mix. You can learn more about maltodextrin through our 1-min video about it!

Maltodextrin in 1 minute

Just be cautious not to get all your carbs from maltodextrin if you're intaking >60g/hr because it'll tip the scales towards a bit too much glucose, and your gut most likely wont like it. A mix of sugar + maltodextrin is a good bet for happy guts.

Second, mix your salt and your carbs and you might notice it's all less overpowering.

Getting most of your sodium from the same beverage that has the carb sources in it works nicely because both table salt, and sodium citrate, independently or together, tend to combat the sweetness intensity nicely.

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