NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
I can honestly say I am not going to take a power gel again, Im going to need to find something but not gels! 45 mins in to the race and I thought, right, I will take my gel now....so, there I am taking my gel thinking it tastes OK, then BANG, really bad pain just behind my rib, it wasnt a stitch (I don't think) and it took my breath away so much so that I had to go to a walk....eventually the pain went away and I got running again but then a stitch came in, I ran through that and I was fine but it has to be the gel.....it was in a matter of seconds of taking it. Wasnt nice!
I had taken the gels before but not in a race enviroment, only when out doing long runs and probably a slightly slower pace.
A mars bar or something like that will need to do the job for the edinburgh marathon or I will mix up a energy drink to take with me.
O.