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Performance Dietitian 🥯🏆
Nutrition Writer ✍️
Pro Triathlete 🏊🏻‍♀️🚴🏃🏼‍♀️
💍 @foodwrench
Website & @getfuelin

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White rice. 🍚
Pomegranate juice.🧃
Gummy candy. 🍬

That's what @megafoley, a pro triathlete and Fuelin staff dietitian ate before racing the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Nice.

The job is simple. Megan breaks down her full protocol in this week's episode—linked in bio. 🔗

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Your last “normal” iron test might’ve been wrong.🩸

This week, the American Society of Hematology raised the ferritin cutoffs for diagnosing iron deficiency. Translation: a lot of athletes who got a “you’re fine” from their doctor now might not meet the new bar.

New thresholds:

▪️Adults + menstruating/pregnant women: ferritin at or below 30 ng/mL
▪️Heavy menstrual bleeding or pregnancy with anemia: 50 ng/mL
▪️Kids 9 mo to 4 yr: 20 ng/mL

Low iron could be masquerading as: dead legs, breathlessness, foggy focus, and flat performance. Ask your doc to recheck your ferritin against the NEW numbers, not the old ones.

@megafoley breaks it down👆

Save this and send it to your training partner who’s “always tired.”

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Nothing like being out on the bike for that morning sunrise! 😍🌅 I’m in COMPLETE denial that it’s getting later and later these days. 🫣

Capture your rides like this with the @insta360 GO Ultra. Use code SKYEM at checkout! 🙌🏼🎥

#cycling #girlswhoride #utah #sunrise

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How does a sports dietitian eat before the biggest race of her year? The same way she'd tell you to.

@megafoley is one of our staff dietitians, AND she's racing the 70.3 World Championship in Nice next weekend. No secret formula, no pros-only tricks, just the same principles we build for every athlete.

This is chapter one. She'll be taking you through travel, race week in France, and how it all holds up on the day. Follow along. 🇫🇷

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It’s been a fun second half of the summer riding bikes with friends, and even with Lois. 🚲💜

When your training can also double as social time, then that’s a real efficiency win in mom life. 😂 Shout out to @megafoley for being the MVP (obviously) and for always listening to my mom stories. 😆

Tomorrow I’m lining up for my second gravel race 😍 @utahgravelseries Wasatch All Road!! 💃🏽 I have slightly more gravel experience going into this one than I did for my first gravel race, which is nice, but definitely counting on my climbing legs to show up. 🤪 (also counting on the thunderstorms to hold off!!)

Here’s to fun weekend plans! May you all get those exercise endorphins. 🥂

#cycling #bikes #girlswhoride #gravel

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The pace was getting hot, and no less than 40g of carb would do. 😂 @scienceinsport @thefeed to the rescue. 🚀

(This is what happens when you train with friends who are world championship ready 🤪🔥 @megafoley @andrewtrihall)

#triathlete #thefeed #cycling #triathlon #endurance

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An epic run performance sealed the deal for Kirsten Kasper👑⁣
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#ExperienceOman #IRONMANtri

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Little of this little of that. After some short course races @kirstenkasper is back and wins 70.3 Boise to notch the 2nd 70.3 win of her career! Passing in the late stages of the race to come away victorious!

@dr_hannah_wells with a solid day all around to come home 2nd and snatch a good chunk of pro series points and a slot to 70.3 world championships next year.

Third times a charm for @hannedevet to wind up on the podium. She was at the front all day but just slipped away in the closing stages of the race with her first podium since 2024!

Full results at Protrinews.com

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Let’s do it for Jack.

The race is nearing and the days left to donate are down to the wire. I’m calling on all my supporters to help us get closer to our goal for finding a cure for Jack.

To donate, you’ll find the link in my bio. I’d be happy to send it directly if you send me a message!

I encourage you to like, comment, and share this post in an effort to help it reach more people. Thank you for your support 🙏🏻

#triathalontraining #ironmantraining #ironmantri #findacure #triathletes

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It’s taken me almost 38 years (and sleeping through the night again 😅), but I am starting to appreciate the magic of a 6am morning. 🤩 Shout out to @megafoley for being down for early training - the accountability helps a lot when the alarm goes off! 😊👯‍♀️

I have to add that this was not physically or mentally possible for me for most of the last ~18months, because we were not consistently sleeping through the night over here. 😴

Sleep deprivation is one thing I don’t think gets talked about enough with moms trying to get back to elite sport (or any level of functioning), yet sleep is such a critical part of the performance equation on EVERY level. Yes, some babies sleep through the night within months (and Instagram makes you think yours should be too 🙄), but it seems that is not the norm. It certainly has not been for me, and crossing my fingers this sleep streak we’ve had the last couple months keeps going. 🤞🏼

All of this is to say: if you’re in the middle-of-the-night-trenches and not able to capture those morning hours, I’m here to say, it’s OKAY TO SLEEP if that is better for your sanity and health. Sleep will get better and you will find yourself and your rhythm again when it does. 🙏 Thank you for listening to my TedTalk. 😘

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This one is for Jack.

In just a few weeks, I’ll take on 140.6 miles at Challenge Roth Triathalon in Germany—but this race isn’t about me. It’s for something much bigger than the finish line.

I’m racing for Jack, a brave 4-year-old battling a neurological condition. I’ve partnered with Cure SCN2A mission to help find a cure and I’m calling on all my friends, family, colleagues, & fellow athletes to donate $1 for every mile I race. Every mile can make an impact.

Jacks father @scottytindal and @getfuelin have helped me plus thousands of other Triathletes get across the finish line…now it’s our turn to help Jack reach his finish line.

Every dollar donated will go toward research and efforts to find a cure for Jack and others like him.

If you’d like to support this mission, please consider donating $140.6, $1 for every mile of the race. Together, we can make a difference - Let’s turn every mile into hope.

TO DONATE: use the direct go fund me link located in my bio.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-familiescn2a-foundations-impactful-mission?attribution_id=sl:7ea86c32-194a-4f0e-a7b1-f5bfe4acc666&ts=1781721105&utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp14_t2&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

#triathlete #raceforacure #rothtriathlon #triathletes #triathlon_in_the_world

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It’s been a good few weeks of “relaxed” training. 😎 Doing what sounds the most fun each day with what the schedule allows. Fortunately, the weather has been quite nice and there have been many great outdoor rides 🤩 (I just reeeeally love riding my bike 🫶🏼).

Currently heading out to Vernal, Utah, to do my FIRST EVER gravel race tomorrow. @utahgravelseries Dirty Dino has been on my race wish list for years, so I’m finally doing it! 🦕 Don’t ask how much gravel riding I’ve done leading into this race 🤣, but thanks to my former sponsors, I have a gravel bike set up that I’m not really worthy of. 😜

#cycling #girlswhoride #beautahful

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