Bonkproof Academy · by Gene Convery

You train your legs for months. Your gut gets one morning.

Fuelling is where good training goes to die — the wall at 32km, the stomach that quits at halfway, the cramp you can't explain. Bonkproof Academy fixes it, step by step, with the same methods I use as an endurance sports nutritionist with my own athletes.

Gene Convery · Qualified endurance sports nutritionist · 20+ years coaching marathon & ultra runners

Sound familiar?

None of these are a fitness problem. They're a fuelling problem — and they're fixable.

You hit the wall at the same kilometre, every race, no matter how fit you are.

Your stomach turns at 25km — bloating, nausea, a portaloo queue that costs you minutes.

You cramp in the heat and can't tell if it's fluid, sodium or pacing.

You've read five different carbs-per-hour numbers and still guess on race morning.

You carb-load for three days and still feel flat on the start line.

Start where you are

Every step is useful on its own. Go as far as your race needs.

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Step 1 · Start free

Know your numbers

Your carbs, fluid and sodium per hour in 60 seconds, then a printable gel-by-gel race plan built from products you've actually tested.

Get My Fuel Targets
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Step 2 · Free review

Get your fuelling read by a nutritionist

A questionnaire on your fuelling, hydration and gut. I read every answer myself and tell you what to change first.

Start My Free Review
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Step 3 · Follow-along courses

Fix it, step by step

Short video lessons you follow alongside your training block — gut training sessions, race-week eating and your race-day plan, done properly.

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Step 4 · 1:1

Race Fuelling Strategy Session

For a goal race that matters: I review your training data, sweat testing and gut history, then build your race plan with you.

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Want fuelling handled as part of your whole training block? See if 1:1 coaching fits →

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The follow-along courses

Short video lessons built to run alongside your training block — you do the gut-training session on Sunday's long run, not just watch a video about it.

Flagship

Race-Day Fuelling: Marathon

Never hit the wall at 32km again.

  • Carbs per hour: finding your number, not someone else's
  • Gut training: an 8-week progression you run alongside your long runs
  • Race week: carb loading without the bloat
  • Race morning: the 3-hour countdown
  • Your gel-by-gel plan, matched to your goal pace and the course
Ultra

Gut Training for Ultras

Keep eating at hour 10, not just hour 2.

  • Real food vs gels: building a menu your gut tolerates for 12+ hours
  • Nausea and GI shutdown: what causes it and how to recover mid-race
  • Aid station and drop-bag strategy
  • Fuelling through the night
Hydration

Sweat, Sodium & Racing in the Heat

Stop guessing your fluid and salt.

  • The home sweat test and how to read it
  • Sodium: how much, from what, and when
  • Heat acclimation in the weeks before your race
  • Cramping: what actually causes it

What fixing the fuelling actually looks like

"Four marathons, stuck at 3:45 for two years. Gene pulled up my race data and saw I was running 4:15/km through 30km then blowing up to 5:30/km. Classic under-fueling. He moved me from 30g carbs/hr to 60g/hr. Next race: 3:28, even pace."
— Coached marathoner
"I hit the wall at 32km in six straight marathons. Turns out I'd been taking one gel every 45 minutes — about half what I needed. Gene rebuilt my fueling plan in grams per hour. First race after: ran the last 10K without walking."
— Coached marathoner
Founding members

Save your spot before the doors open.

I'm building these courses around the problems runners actually tell me about. Join the founding list and you help decide what goes in — and you get the best price I'll ever offer.

  • Founding-member price: the lowest this will ever be
  • First access before public launch
  • Your answers shape what goes into the course
  • No payment now. Joining is free, and you can leave any time

Which would you want? (pick any)

What are you training for?

What's your biggest fuelling problem?

What would a course that fixes this be worth to you? (optional)

Honest answers help me set the founding price.

Where should I send your founding invite?

Pick a course, your distance and your biggest problem, then add your email.

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Who's teaching it

I'm Gene Convery. I've coached marathon and ultra runners for over 20 years, I'm a qualified endurance sports nutritionist, and I'm a former elite triathlete. Fuelling is the question my athletes ask me most — and the fix that most often changes their race. This is everything I teach them, in an order you can follow.

Questions

Make your next race bonkproof.

What you practise in training decides what your gut does on race day. Get your numbers today for free, and join the founding list so you're first in when the courses open.

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