Brutkey

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social I'm a recreational (and commuter) rider and I drifted into it because I started out never putting Gatorade into my water bottles, just carrying it separately and also carrying various snacks/etc. So all I had to do for a complete replacement was get some salt pills.

(My first bike had only one water bottle cage so I was always carrying extra drink stuff in panniers or a rack bag.)

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social Carrying only water in my water bottles makes life easier; I can refill them at any water source without diluting anything, I have clean water for non-drinking uses,I never worry about sugar making stuff grow in them, etc. And often I only wanted water, or only wanted a bit of a snack, rather than the whole Gatorade package all at once (which I felt was often too much sugars along with my water).

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe @georgieboy@mastodon.social AFAIK any sports drink with mixed fluid, salts, and sugars has to make an assumption about how much energy you're using (so how much sugar you need) as you go through a certain amount of water. As a recreational cyclist instead of a racer I had the strong feeling that Gatorade assumed I was burning a lot more energy than I actually was and so was loading me up on sugars/carbs in the process of giving me more fluid.

fiery
@fiery@snac.bsd.cafe

@cks@mastodon.social @fiery@mastodon.social Right, right, makes sense. On my side, it felt like the gatorade or those mineral packs for cyclists was never the right thing. Like the proportion of ingredients was never right for any given moment, except maybe when I was feeling completely depleted. On other times tough, sometimes I just wanted salty; or sometimes just water; or just sugar, potassium. It would depend on the day, the weather, how tired I was. Fruits for example felt great on hot weather when I didn't feel like having food (sugar, potassium, etc). Or sometimes I just wanted savory food. And so on. Not sure if I explained clearly.