Melbourne Marathon fuel plan: carbs, fluid and sodium per hour.

Usually in October, Melbourne, Australia. Set your finish time and the plan follows.

Distance
42.195 km
Climbing
Not published
Typical temperature
9 to 18 °C · 48 to 64 °F
Aid stations
Not published yet

Your numbers

Sport
h:mm, like 5:30
kg
Keeps fluid loss under 2%. Never shared.
ml/h
Don't know it? Work it out
mg/l
From a sweat sodium test. Leave it empty if you haven't done one.
Conditions
Gut training
How used your gut is to taking carbs while you train.

Your plan

Marathon · 4 h

Carbs an hour

75g

The research range for this race is 60 to 90 g; your gut training sets where you start. Above 60 g, use glucose and fructose, about 2:1.

Jeukendrup 2014Viribay 2020+4 more

Fluid an hour

To thirst

Without a sweat rate the research says drink to thirst. Do the sweat test to get a range.

NATA 2017ACSM 2007

Sodium an hour

300 to 1,000mg

Sweat sodium varies a lot between people. A sweat sodium test gives you your own number.

Baker 2017NATA 2017+1 more

About 300 g of carbs over the race. That is a 25 g gel every 20 minutes, or the same carbs from drink and chews.

Rehearse it in training first: the gut adapts in 2 to 4 weeks. Costa 2017

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I'm racing a Marathon and expect to finish in 4 h. I haven't measured my sweat rate. Conditions look mild, and my gut is in some training for fueling. A race fuel calculator built on the research (Jeukendrup 2014, the ACSM 2016 position stand) gave me: 75 g carbs an hour (glucose and fructose, about 2:1), about 300 g in total; fluid: drink to thirst, no sweat rate yet; 300 to 1,000 mg sodium an hour. Check this against my training and how my gut has handled fueling, then build my race day plan: what to take and when, with real products I can buy.

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The course

What to know about Melbourne Marathon.

The 2026 course starts on Batman Avenue at 6:15 am, runs south along the bay through St Kilda and Beaconsfield Parade, and loops around Albert Park Lake. It finishes inside the MCG, and the organizer calls it a faster, flatter course.

The organizer had not published aid station positions when we checked.

Race details checked November 9, 2026 from melbournemarathon.com.au, melbournemarathon.com.au, weatherspark.com. Courses and aid stations change: check the official page in race week.

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Questions

Melbourne Marathon: questions.

  • At a typical finish of 4 h, the research range is 60 to 90 g an hour, as glucose and fructose, set by how trained your gut is. Enter your own finish time above for your number.

  • Temperatures run from about 9 to 18 °C (48 to 64 °F): Average daily low and high in Melbourne in October (Weather Spark). Heat raises your sweat rate, so do a sweat test in similar weather.

  • The organizer had not published aid station positions when we checked. Plan to carry what you need until they do.

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