Originally Posted by 'nother
On a nutritionist's advice, rides under 2 hours, I just drink plain water.
Longer than that and I need to be replacing electrolytes (and calories).
But apparently there are few commercial sports drinks that are "blessed" by the nutritionist cult. It is essential to make your own, even though the preparations they have you to mix up are, at the core, very little different from things like Gatorade, Cytomax, etc. etc. I had one person tell me to use honey as a sweetener, to avoid the evil SUGAR. NEWS FLASH:
they're the same thing (sucrose . . . glucose + fructose).
Heh, heh... common misconception from the crunchy-granola tree-hugger crowd. Once honey crosses your intestinal-wall into the bloodstream, it's the exact same stuff as table-sugar!
Although you might get a little extra wax and pollen as flavoring...
Yah, I like Cytomax too. I try to take in 200-300cal/hr on rides and to get that same amount in Gatorade, I have to drink too much volume. I prefer to make double-strength Cytomax in one of my bottles and it's not as sweet and sticky as Gatorade for the same numbers of calories.