Typically an amateur athlete will go for something like 60g of sugar or other rapidly-absorbed carbohydrate per hour of training. In coke terms, that is a 600ml (20 fl oz) bottle per hour.
They are very much outliers in terms of what their body composition compared to people of the same age who don't do endurance sports, especially when you look at their diet.
They are very much outliers in terms of what their body composition compared to people of the same age who don't do endurance sports, especially when you look at their diet.