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Nutrition & Recovery Myth: train on purposely low carbs, then race high, to force the adaptation.
Nutrition & Recovery Myth: if you're not improving despite training hard, you just need to train harder.
Nutrition & Recovery Myth: more race-day carbs always means more speed.