Look, I don’t have a degree from Cornell, but how tf do they get away with selling a gel for $5 that only has 16g of carbs? It’s confirmed now. And as per the recent David & Megan Roche podcast they were only paid $400 for this gel that was a best seller. Failure and shady business practices. Will any of their current athletes drop them? Who would use them now?
Thank you for posting this. I have a marathon this weekend and knew nothing about this. Have now read the reddit/german article/listened to the podcast.
Still going to use them this weekend because this is what I have trained with. But at 16g/gel rather than 45, for a bit under 3hrs, I had planned to take 4 gels to get 60g/hr (180g total). I will probably now do 6 gels for 30g/hr (96g total). Means getting the on course sports drinks goes from a nice bonus top up to a key part of the fueling plan.
So again, cheers for pointing this out to me, you potentially made significant difference to the back end of my race this week.
Why don’t you athletes make your own gels?!
ComeOn wrote:
Why don’t you athletes make your own gels?!
I legit talked about this with the wife last night.
What vessel do you make them in though? I preserve alot of fruit from the garden, but thats all into glass jars which are easy to sterilise (and obviously not practical for running). Im sure there is a world of info on the webs about it, I just havent looked into it yet.
SlowSteve wrote:
I legit talked about this with the wife last night.
What vessel do you make them in though? I preserve alot of fruit from the garden, but thats all into glass jars which are easy to sterilise (and obviously not practical for running). Im sure there is a world of info on the webs about it, I just havent looked into it yet.
Storage in glas or hard plastics (to freeze in). For runs RE using cleaned gel packages. Cleaned with baking soda.
Spring energy wrote:
Look, I don’t have a degree from Cornell, but how tf do they get away with selling a gel for $5 that only has 16g of carbs? It’s confirmed now. And as per the recent David & Megan Roche podcast they were only paid $400 for this gel that was a best seller. Failure and shady business practices. Will any of their current athletes drop them? Who would use them now?
Sheesh!! I will never pay $5 for an energy gel. But there are a lot of people who will. They are very gullible.
By the way, what's up with all the pop-up adds. 5 of them have already pop-up, and I haven't been here for more than 5 minutes. It's annoying af.