Here's an awesome sports drink that I drink right after all my runs. It's always best to make things from scratch so that you can avoid all the wonderful (I really mean harmful) chemical dyes and colourings that manufactured drinks use.

The best part is that it actually ends up tasting like Gatorade anyways and is much better for you.

Here it is:

- juice of 1/2 lime
- juice of 1/4 lemon
- 2-3 tbsp of maple syrup
- pinch of sea salt
- 500 ml water
- 5g glutamine (optional)

Try it! This drink absolutely rocks!

You mean you actually allowed yourself to have a taste of the real thing.....................

I reckon processed drinks can improve the bodies immune system - surely if it can process all that cr@p it can deal with a virus/infection with ease?! lol.

I have to admit I admire your dedication to sticking with pure and healthy unprocessed foods/drinks TOrunner... in an ideal world I'd love to be the same, but truth be told I tend to just be a little lazy with those kind of things and don't feel I'd see much improvement if I were to move away from teh pre-mix solutions.

I'll stick with premixed stuff too...Lucozade does it for me.
Too old to worry about every little thing that is supposed to be bad for us!!

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Fair enough but aspartame can be cancer causing and it's found in powerade, lucozade, and as a sweetener in a huge proportion of other processed sweet drinks.

As for being lazy, you're hauling your butt out to run god knows how many miles a week, apple juice and water take ohhh 30 seconds to mix. If you run 30 seconds quicker because of it then there isn't much time saving buying the crap.

But hey, you're not the international athlete so I guess it doens't matter too much for you.

P.O.

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I'm certainly not an international athlete (unfortunately ). I will endeavour to try out your recipe post run drink at some point as it does sound rather healthy... what quantities of fruit juice do you mix with water to replicate the man-made sports drinks during runs?

It seems everything can cause cancer nowadays

I buy a tub of SIS Electrolyte / Go in the summer when it's hot to replace the salts I've sweated out from the heat. The Citrus one's OK but the berry flavoured one is rancid!

A.

I go for 1/2 juice 1/2 water, if it's hot then I go down to 1/3 juice to 2/3 water. Because the absorbtion rates differe with temperature.

If it's really hot then having a nuun tablet in there is great too. Also if you leave the top on your sports drink then it goes fizzy which is cool. Nuun triberry and apple juice tastes awsome!

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I have mentioned it here before, i use Hammer products and their banana gel is very good, as is their apple and cinammon, the other product i use is HEED (energy/electrolyte drink) its not too sweet. They seem to err on the side of natural sweetness rather than oversweet and because of this the HEED can seem insipid, but i would rather drink something that is slightly on the tasteless side but will not attack the back of my throat or stomach lining over 3-4 hours etc. they are advertising with a link banner on www.tritalk.co.uk and have several forum threads on the site all leading to www.hammernutritionuk.co.uk

Katten hope this helps

Thanks!

CarbBoom are... decent... as well, they use fruit flavour from actual fruit. I can get by with the artificial flavours, it's just a preference

Mmmm, nesquik, nowt but sugar and milk... purrrrfect for a post-run pick-me-up. Well maybe not perfect, but it works for me, it's actually a load of soot, but I was looking at the ingredients and comparing it to that nourishment stuff that my boyf drinks, and given that in general I tend to just eat well instead of supplement well, I thought it's pretty much as good for my use, all it is is sugar and is fortified with B vitamins with some "natural" flavouring.

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Sports drinks with complex carbohydrates are better than ones with simple sugars. Complex carbs will not upset your stomach and simple sugars can cause you to bonk during long workouts

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Why did no-one tell me this before?!? Where can I get some of these simple sugars??

I'm quite tempted to make a bottle of TORunner's fruit concoction next time i have some spare time before a long run.

and me... I want some too!!

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I run with Gatorade in my Camelbak when I do anything more than 12km. Upto that it's an old powerade bottl with gatorade in it... excellent stuff is that!

Andy