Re: No more gatrade

On 4/15/2025 11:56 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:02:16 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:19:48 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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Thi morning I read where Pepsico is going to meet with DEI freaks
including the racist jackass, Al Sharpton, and it convinced me to do
what I've been contemplating for months. From now on, I'll not be
putting any gatorade (Pepsico product) into my water bottles.
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There's too much sugar in Gatorade, anyway. Yesterday, I drank four
and half bottles of it, each with 32 grams of sugar. I tried Nuun
tablets a few years back and I think I'll try them again.

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Are you drinking the stuff for energy or as a water replacement? I
used to use one of the packaged drinks and mixed it 1/2 to 1 with
water.

 MOstly, I wanted the electrolites.
 I bought individual packets. I was mixing one packet to 24 oz of
water. I think the packets were for 16 oz so I was mixing them lighter
than reccomended. I finish the rides on a sugar high.  Not good.
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C'est bon
Soloman

My Gatorade story and the only one goes back to the hot Chicago Marathon of 1989. It was 63 degrees at starting line and by mile 20 on Lake Shore drive in the sun was in 80's. I had never trained using gatorade only drinking water. So I think well I better drink this stuff due to the heat. Completely wrong never do something on race day you have not already trained and know what  happens.
Gatorade must have messed up my system and I got pretty tired and worn the last 10k. My time was 3:23 and I should have even in the heat run the marathon in 3:15. I got to the finish and it took me 40 minutes to stand up. A friend of mine said I was out of sugar in the body. Gave me a real can of Coke no diet Coke. Drank the the Coke and in minutes was fine got up went home.
Moral was I think Gatorade caused my body to process glycogen differently than normal and depleted it. It also taste nasty and I have never had a drop of Gatorade since that day.
It was warm and the day before the Marathon I weight 178 pounds after topping of the body with final meal get glycogen stores full. Then night I got home from the Marathon, after eating dinner and drinking to replenish the body I weighed 171  pounds. During the race of course I drank a lot so I must have really dropped serious weight.
No gatorade.
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Deacon Mark