Originally Posted by
FullGas
Gatorade is mostly a marketing success.
a lot of people don't ride long/hard enough to need electrolyte replacement...but, they buy into the advertising and chug the crap anyway.
Not worth starting a war over this, but I've read volumes about the absence of any reason for Gatorade - and even more about the negative effects of any of these sports drinks. Personally, these days, I just drink a ton of water when I am doing a long (50-60 miles for this old man) ride in the sweltering summer heat and I feel much better than when I used to arrive at my destination with a sugar hangover. In my younger days, I also experimented with electrolyte tablets and other expensive stuff from the health food store and they never made me feel any different than when I rode without them.