I follow the sports nutritionist on the RCA YouTube channel who touts the benefits of hydration as well as carb boosted hydration drinks supplying mitochondrial energy. Yesterday I decided to put her advice to the test and upped my liquid intake to one large bottle every 45 mins (for 4 hours) with a carb-centric product (SIS Go carb and electrolyte powder). She also recommends eating carb heavy snacks while riding which I also did every half hour. Completed a 70 mile ride with 3,800’ climbing feeling the best I have in years. Usually I am dragging and just want to get it over with. Yesterday I was running at 19 MPH on the flats on the final miles.

When home I took two good gulps of dill pickle juice and took a magnesium pill and for the first time in years, no leg cramps in the evening or during the last hard climb for a mile between 6 and 8%.

Am changing my regime to drink more, ingest more carbs and keep up the pickle juice. Today I feel great, rather than wiped out.