A soft flask. Sometimes known as a folding bottle. The sort you might find as the hydration bladders in a running vest are great, but make sure you don't have one with an annoyingly long hose Importantly, all of Rawvelo's NPD will continue to be organic and vegan, Evans said – two trends that are becoming increasingly important in the market. The BHF recommends no more than 6mg a salt and 2500mg sodium each day, so you're probably ok to have a couple of servings in a ride, especially given you're losing salts from your body when you sweat a lot. Rawvelo will start development of its protein products in the coming weeks and will likely use a blend of vegan sources, ideally pea and hemp Evans said, the latter of which contains all the essential amino acids.

With a balanced combination of coconut water powder, natural sugars and Himalayan sea salt, our Hydration Drink Mixes provide a complete electrolyte profile to ensure proper hydration before, during or after exercise. They contain optimum levels of potassium, magnesium and other trace minerals without synthetic additives or artificial sweeteners. It’s all about natural rehydration to aid active recovery and to sustain you for longer. The main things I learnt were about keeping a tab on your emotions and learning how energy levels affect them. It was an emotional roller coaster but upon reflection I realised that the highs were probably when I was well fuelled and the lows were when I was in need of a good meal. Understanding why your mood is changing is a key part of these events and it's often a very simple solution… just eat something and get some sleep! It did mean that I was very grateful to be able to ride GBDURO in that first year and I managed to channel a lot of energy into that ride. However, more recently, Wendy J O'Brien and her fellow performance nutrition researchers learned that the body could, in actual fact, process more than this 30g of fructose. Their studies pushed the limit to 48 grams with positive effects on performance. It's widely accepted that the body can process 60g of glucose per hour into glycogen. Up until a few years ago, it was also accepted that the body could concurrently process 30g of fructose. This is where the advised 2:1 ratio was born.You can, of course, dose these separately in various ways, but some gels offer a two-birds-one-stone solution. Do all energy gels taste terrible? So while the Rawvelo energy bars aren't the cheapest, they're by no means the most expensive either, and they do have the added benefit of fully organic and raw ingredients, adding to their value. Conclusion Eco-friendliness: Given the potentially large quantity of gels you will consume in a year of training and racing, the waste and litter you produce could be high. As a result, the eco-friendliness score is a three-tiered traffic light system I've devised. Starting at red, a product moves to amber if it's recyclable or if it features a litter-free design. A green score will be awarded to those that do both. I was a slightly slow starter, much to the frustration of my parents, but once I finally learnt to ride at seven I was always riding around the garden. Proper cycling didn’t arrive for a few more years but the early days were spent riding around Thetford Forest on the MTB.

The Tour Divide starts on 10 th June and then once that’s done I’m looking forward to a break afterwards. After that, the focus will be firmly on the Atlas Mountain Race and Rhino Run later this year in October. Where I believe the Rawvelo to be the better option here is in the taste, and it's easy to overlook this when you're just focusing on the numbers. Whether you go for the lemon or raspberry flavours, you're getting a great-tasting drink, a lot of which is down to the all-natural ingredient list. A rider who’s taken on nearly every endurance discipline going on the bike, we spoke to Rawvelo ambassador Josh Ibbett just before he set off on his journey to Canada for the start of the Tour Divide about where it all started, how it’s been going (spoiler - pretty well!) and what challenges lie ahead. This clearly put you in good stead as you went on to win that 2015 edition of the TCR. Can you remember your feelings when reaching the finish?

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He said the company will continue to stay focused on the UK market with the view of European expansion in the first-quarter of 2020. A full endurance offering​ Not to be pedantic, but it's not 400mg of salt, it's 400mg of sodium. Per 25g serving it's actually just 1.0g of salt. We're quite firm believers in hemp being a very, very good source of vegan protein but undoubtably it will be a blend. Pea protein is also one we think works well. ...With pea protein and even more so hemp protein, it's about getting the balance and masking right because they do have quite strong flavours.”​ Vegan, organic boom​ Strength of taste: With taste being a personal preference, I've chosen to quantify strength of taste instead. Here I've opted for four tiers: Mild, slightly strong, strong, and very strong.

Ha, yes - at the time I was actually getting pretty annoyed that so many people were hassling me when all I wanted to do was have a shower and go to bed! The foundation of our hydration mixes, meanwhile, is coconut water. Bursting with electrolytes and thought to help the human body replace fluids faster than water, there’s no wonder it’s been dubbed Mother Nature’s sports drink. With all of our products, it’s about balancing short-term performance and recovery with long-term health. There are five flavours available: chocolate orange, peanut butter jelly, peanut butter, chocolate raspberry, and chocolate walnut brownie. The sweet date flavour is dominant in each of these – you can tell it's the main ingredient – and there's no huge flavour difference between them, which I find is the case for many raw energy bars.The hydration drink mix is available in either lemon or raspberry flavour and comes in a powder that you mix with water. It contains an A-list of organic ingredients, including raw cane sugar, glucose, coconut water powder, pink Himalayan sea salt and natural flavourings. As a young rider I always seemed to do better at the slightly longer events. I won the Junior 3 Peaks CX which was pretty much as long and tough a race as you could do at that age. As things progressed I got a place on a team called Extreme Endurance who focussed on the 12 and 24h race scene, so being around those races it was a natural development for me to take part in them and gradually increase the distances of my races. All those formative years racing around muddy fields for 24-hours taught me a lot of the basic skills that I was later to call upon in the ultra endurance world. From a purely nutritional point of view, Rawvelo's hydration offering is roughly on par with its closest competitors, though it's slightly more expensive pound for pound. That said, you might be willing to spend the extra pennies just because it tastes really good, is easy to drink in voluminous quantities, and the ingredients are top notch. Verdict