Every August, something happens that most athletes completely sleep on. The farmers markets explode. Not the modest stalls of June or the picked-over tables of October — I mean the real, bursting-at-the-seams, can’t-carry-it-all harvest that makes produce managers nervous about shelf space. Tomatoes so ripe they barely hold their shape. Peaches that drip down your forearm. Corn, zucchini, bell peppers, berries, basil, eggplant — all hitting peak nutrition at the exact moment your training cycle needs it most. I spent years treating food as fuel without thinking about when that fuel was at its best. Protein powder, electrolyte mix, the…