electrolyte replacement

Can anyone recommend a good electrolyte drink powder that I can mix up into
a biddon, is easy to get hold of, works, tastes ok and doesn't cost the
earth?

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On Mar 19, 10:02 am, "OzCableguy"
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good electrolyte drink powder that I can mix up into
a biddon, is easy to get hold of, works, tastes ok and doesn't cost the
earth?

I use staminade, you can get it from stupormarkets (get the powder, or
if it's the liquid, check that it has magnesium in it). You can mix
your own which is a lot cheaper, but a bit of ****-farting around.
Gatorade and Powerade don't have magnesium (and I prefer the taste of
staminade, *and* staminade's Australian, if you care, the others are
coke and cadbury-schweppes). Endura etc are more expensive and harder
to get hold of.

In article .com,
"Bleve" wrote:

I use staminade, you can get it from stupormarkets (get the powder, or
if it's the liquid, check that it has magnesium in it).

Second Staminade. Get two or three containers when it goes on sale at
your local supermarket. I only use it for long weekend rides and don't
usually mix it to full strength.
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On Mar 19, 12:09 pm, Artoi wrote:
In article .com,

"Bleve" wrote:
I use staminade, you can get it from stupormarkets (get the powder, or
if it's the liquid, check that it has magnesium in it).

Second Staminade. Get two or three containers when it goes on sale at
your local supermarket.

heh, I generally buy all their stock

I've been trying out a new product called nuun (www.nuun.com). It's a
bit pricey, but comes in tablet form in tubes like Beroccas and is
easy to keep in a jersey and pop into a bidon on the go. Tastes pretty
good too. No sugar, which I prefer so my waterbottles don't go gunky.

The cost is a bit of a problem. One tube (12 tablets) does six litres.
Three tubes cost me about $30 shipped. So it works out about about
$1.60 a litre. I don't know how that compares, but I found it pretty
convenient but probably only for big rides. Their shipping was pretty
quick too.

I used it on a couple of audax rides and really like it.



On Mar 19, 10:02 am, "OzCableguy"
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good electrolyte drink powder that I can mix up into
a biddon, is easy to get hold of, works, tastes ok and doesn't cost the
earth?

--www.ozcableguy.comwww.oztechnologies.com

Bleve wrote:
I use staminade, you can get it from stupormarkets (get the powder, or
if it's the liquid, check that it has magnesium in it). You can mix
your own which is a lot cheaper, but a bit of ****-farting around.
Gatorade and Powerade don't have magnesium

What's the relevance of magnesium? I've always used Powerade because I
prefer the taste over some of the others but never looked that closely
at the contents.

DaveB

Bleve Wrote:
Endura etc are more expensive and harder
to get hold of.
I managed to acquire heaps of endura sachets at the end of the Amy's
ride to Surfers P. Most people who were riding back to Vegas could not
carry their show-bags of goodies, hence many were being "abandoned". I
"rescued" them. Still getting through the "recovery" powder sachets,
although I seem to be consuming them more frequently over the last
couple of weeks


--
monsterman

"Surly Dave" wrote in message
oups.com...
The cost is a bit of a problem. One tube (12 tablets) does six litres.
Three tubes cost me about $30 shipped. So it works out about about
$1.60 a litre. I don't know how that compares, but I found it pretty
convenient but probably only for big rides. Their shipping was pretty
quick too.



Awesome! Thanks everyone. I'll give the staminade a go and fall back on the
nuun if I don't get the results I need. I've been getting regular cramps
this last week so hopefully this'll put a stop to it.

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www.oztechnologies.com

Bleve wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:02 am, "OzCableguy"
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good electrolyte drink powder that I can mix up into
a biddon, is easy to get hold of, works, tastes ok and doesn't cost the
earth?

I use staminade, you can get it from stupormarkets (get the powder, or
if it's the liquid, check that it has magnesium in it). You can mix
your own which is a lot cheaper, but a bit of ****-farting around.
Gatorade and Powerade don't have magnesium (and I prefer the taste of
staminade, *and* staminade's Australian, if you care, the others are
coke and cadbury-schweppes). Endura etc are more expensive and harder
to get hold of.

I've tried Staminade a few times, and always end up with the same
problem - it doesn't seem to mix properly. Maybe it's something to do
with my bottles, my shaking technique (is it up down up down, or up
down left right? Hey, sounds like a Tekken move) or how the water
comes out of the tap in my kitchen, but it always gets stuck in a big
lump at the bottom of the bottle. I then have to break up said big
lump and shake for 5 minutes until the little lumps finally dissolve.
I finished the tub and switched back to Gatorade. Figuring I might
have had a dodgy batch, I try the Staminade again with the same
result. What am I doing wrong??

On Mar 19, 2:51 pm, DaveB wrote:
Bleve wrote:
I use staminade, you can get it from stupormarkets (get the powder, or
if it's the liquid, check that it has magnesium in it). You can mix
your own which is a lot cheaper, but a bit of ****-farting around.
Gatorade and Powerade don't have magnesium

What's the relevance of magnesium? I've always used Powerade because I
prefer the taste over some of the others but never looked that closely
at the contents.

It's part of a salt that's linked to cramps, or rather, the lack of it
is