Geez Jocko. For a non beer drinking poof, you sure do know about your fluids.

But seriously (or not) you missed the most important benefit to sports drinking. Hot water induces vomit. Hot sportdrinks induces memories of your missuses herbal tea that you've learnt to keep down if you want some love that night.

Hey, I know it's a long shot but any of you fellas know anything about this computer? I think it's called a Marwi Union XR and it's got readings for bike crap, cadence and heart rate. See, I need a lot of information to foucus my attention on instead of getting the hump on how crappy I'm riding at the minute. Thinking that should have enough bells and whistles to keep me interested if the thing does in fact work. Then again, it's going to be a chrissie present so I might send the family broke and get them to get me a Polar S720i.