Tonight’s sunset in the gorge! It’s starting to get a little more epic right?! 18 days till toe the line time. Training’s been epic and it’s nearing that time to taper so come race day you’re poised to take home the hardware. Big shaka to Hammer Nutrition for stepping up this year as the official and sole Chattajack Nutrition sponsor. We’ll all have a Hammer Gel in our grab bags and plenty more as well plus Hammer Bars at aid stations. Just in case the carb load from the nigh

What food items did you carry during your Chattajack race? How much of it did you eat? When did you eat it during the course? I don’t like to eat solid food while I am racing, I have tried and it just doesn’t work for me. I use 100% liquid nutrition. I get my calories from CarboPro which is tasteless when dissolved in water and I get my electrolytes from Metasalt tablets (also by CarboPro). I have all of my nutritional requirements for a 5 hour race calculated. I make it into

Thanks to awesome people like you, you, and you, Hammer Nutrition has partnered with Chattajack. This year’s aid stations will be supplied with tons and tons of calories by means of 2 great Hammer products: Hammer Gels and Hammer Bars. We don’t take our role lightly in supporting Chattajack racers achieve the finish line. While we may not be there to pour cold water over your head at 5AM for those early morning training sessions we can do our part to make sure there are logs

Nutrition is one of the more important roles in forming a fast strategy for the 31-mile Tennessee River Gorge race. It’s so easy to get caught in the moment, hammering away, and falsely convince ourselves we can maintain a certain output level while sacrifice our nutrition strategy in the name of a couple extra strokes. Chattajack is extremely proud to partner with PocketFuel Naturals for the 2014 race! Pocket Fuel is a natural based “fast food”. Real food, real calories, and