Originally Posted by
StephenH
I'm thinking I've seen "bonk" used in different senses maybe. You're talking about nutrition, but the description of the conditions sounds like more of a heat issue.
One thing I've been doing on randonneuring rides is carrying pre-measured baggies of Perpetuum powder and generally keeping one water bottle with that, one water bottle with either water or Gatorade...
Hi, StephenH,
After watching a friend's success with Perpetuem (or was it Sustained Energy) on last year's August SIR 1000Km, I've been using it for my last few brevets and it's been working well for me. However, the weather has been cool so far. I'm wondering what your method has been on the really hot brevets. Perpetuem seems to go "sour" in the heat, and I've wondered whether in the summer, after a few hours of riding I can just dump the bottle, rinse with clean water, then mix up another batch of Perpetuem. Or does the sourness from the prior bottle persist and then make the next one go sour that much faster? Certainly, if you had a box of hamburger that had gone bad, you wouldn't just dump it and then put fresh hamburger in the box, you'd wash thoroughly with soap and hot water.
Nick