I have a water belt with 2 bottles, I am training for the London marathon and use energy gels, im thinking of maybe adding a shotz energy gel to each bottle and mixing it, just wondered if anyone else has done this and found it helps with long runs?
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Sometimes I will run with gels and water separate so I can practice taking them just like I would in a race.
If you know you can handle gels on long runs - I don't bother with them now apart from races. Today's 22 miler was on a bag of foamy bananas. 3 for ??1. So I reckon about 30p cost for the run. ( I had some left over)
You can make your own energy drink for pennies not pounds.
In answer to your question, no, I don't use energy gels so have never tried mixing them with water.
I guess there is no harm in experimenting if this is what you want to do. Just question your dosing - how much and when, if you diluted the gel how much would you actually be getting during your run?
Why are you thinking of doing this, do you find the gels difficult to take or just saving having to carry the gels on your run?
Water + lemon juice +honey + pinch of salt.
Yummalicious. Cheap as chips.
How does that vary from powdered sugar?
Alternatively you can buy sachets of ready mixed malto/ fructo and flavouring. Companies like Hi5 make them, but they're much dearer than home brew.
Thats good to know Red, one of my other hobbies besides running is homebrewing, I've always got maltodextrin and glucose lying about. I'll look into how to mix them up.