THE SPLITS LAB

Running science, applied

Trust the science.
Run like a machine.

Running research, tested on one real amateur's data, with every number shown and sourced.

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Free tool

The fuel and sweat planner

Answer a few questions and get your race-day plan on one screen: which gels and when, caffeine, how much to drink at each station and how much salt you lose, from the published research. No sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your device.

Open the planner

Want the plan built from your own sweat rate? See the Race Pack.

Four things to optimise

FUEL

Grams, not guesses

Carbohydrate, fluid and sodium, worked out from the guidelines and your own sweat data.

TRAIN

Structure that works

Volume, intensity and long runs, shown week by week from a real training block.

KIT

What the studies say

Shoes and gear judged on published evidence, including who paid for it.

RECOVER

The work between sessions

Taper, sleep and recovery, with the research behind each claim.

Current experiment

2:57
Valencia Marathon target, 6 December 2026
1,097 km
run in the first 18 weeks of the training block
4
runs a week, on average