I'm confused on your Accelerade - every 90 minutes (orange w/caffeine)
1 bottle of non-caffeinated Accelerade per hour??
Sorry for the confusion... it made sense when I wrote it.
I ate breakfast. Then for the first 90 minutes of my day, I have 2 bottles on my bike: One of plain water, and one of Accelerade Orange Dreamsicle flavour (with caffeine, because coffee upsets my stomach when I ride, but I need my morning boost.)
After the first 90 minutes of riding, I switch to non-caffeinated Accelerade; usually Fruit Punch flavour.
Is there a powder for accelerade? I've only seen it in bottles. 14-15 bottles of Accelerade in your handlebar bag seems like it would have a serious effect on the handling of your bike.
It comes in powder (I buy it at Performance Bike Shop), and I use Ziploc snack size baggies to carry pre-measured single bottle servings. For STP, I carried 10 of them which turns out to be around 300g total weight, so less than a pound.
NOTE: Those snack-size Ziploc bags are great for just about anything. I carried my Endurolytes and ibuprofen in one, had one with extra chamois cream (a necessity when going over 200k!) and another one with extra sunscreen. They're lighter than carrying a bunch of plastic bottles for everything.
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