My Exact Fueling Plan for Blackbeard's Revenge 100

By Spencer | March 2026

On March 21st I'm running Blackbeard's Revenge 100. 100 miles along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, straight through the day and night.

I've been getting a lot of questions about how I fuel for something like this. What do I eat? When? How do I keep my stomach from falling apart at mile 60?

So here's the actual plan. The one my crew will have in their hands at 2am when I roll into an aid station looking like death.

Every Hour. No Exceptions.

The biggest mistake I see people make is waiting until they're hungry or thirsty to eat or drink. By then you're already behind. At any long distance, that's a hole that's really hard to dig out of.

So everything runs on a 60-minute cycle. Every hour, all night, until I cross the finish:

0:00 -- 1 scoop Stay Ready Endurance + 1 scoop Electrolytes in a 500ml soft flask. This is what I'm sipping on the entire hour. [I'll leave each aid station with enough flasks to cover that time period. Typically 4 flasks to cover 10-15 miles.]

0:20 -- Gel #1

0:40 -- Gel #2

0:60 -- Solid food. Uncrustable and a banana.

Same thing. Every hour. 

Stay Ready Endurance anchors the whole thing because it gives me steady carbs without wrecking my stomach. The Electrolytes keep sodium, potassium, and magnesium topped off so I don't cramp up and my legs keep doing what I need them to do. Everything else [the gels, the solid food] are layers on top of that. But the flask is the foundation.

Now, is this going to go perfectly? Probably not. After 12, 14, 20 hours on your feet, forcing yourself to eat on schedule when your stomach is turning and the last thing you want is another Uncrustable is genuinely hard. And will I still cramp? Will there still be miles where everything hurts and I'm wondering what I was thinking? Absolutely. It's 100 damn miles. That's part of it.

But the plan gives me the best shot. The difference between fueling on a schedule and just winging it isn't whether you suffer. You're going to suffer either way. It's whether you suffer smart.

What I'm Carrying Out of Every Crew Stop

Every time I leave a crew station I'm walking out with the same exact loadout. No exceptions.

4x 500ml soft flasks pre-mixed and ready to drink. Minimum 4 gels. 2 Uncrustables. 2 bananas. A few fruit snacks and granola bars stuffed in my pockets.

My crew goes through a checklist every single time before I leave. Flasks filled. Gels loaded. Food confirmed. If I leave without something on that list, that's on them. We've talked about it. They know.

What's in the RV

The RV is basically a rolling aid station. Every crew stop I'm sitting down and getting in at least a couple solid food items on top of everything else -- sandwiches, quesadillas, chips, fruit, chocolate milk. We've also got pickle juice on hand for cramp prevention which sounds gross but should work.

And for the overnight miles we're keeping warm broth ready to go. Chicken noodle, bone broth, ramen. Honestly when it's dark and cold and I'm 70 miles in, warm broth will hit different than anything else out there.

Why I Fuel Like This

I didn't come up with this plan because it looked smart on paper. I built it because I've been humbled before by not taking fueling seriously enough. I'm a big dude and not necessarily built to be a runner. I need these calories and electrolytes to have a fighting chance.

The thing most people don't talk about is how much your body adapts when you train and race fueled consistently. Your gut figures out how to process food while you're working hard. Your energy stops spiking and crashing. And when you're at mile 80 and your brain is telling you to stop, having steady blood sugar and legs that aren't seizing up makes all the difference.

It's not complicated. It's just consistency.

The Race Day Stack [Stay Ready Endurance and Electrolytes] is what makes this whole plan work. Stay Ready Endurance is in every single flask, every single hour, because it gives me clean steady carbs without blowing up my stomach. The Electrolytes are right there with it, keeping sodium, potassium, and magnesium dialed in so my muscles don't give out before I do. These aren't just products I have because we make them, they're genuinely what I'm trusting to get me from start to finish. If you're doing anything long, whether it's your first half marathon or you're deep into ultra distance, this is where I'd start.

The Race

Blackbeard's Revenge 100. March 21-22, 2026.

MJ will be posting updates along the way on our Instagram. Follow along if you want to track it.

Let's go.

- Spence