NATURAL NUTRITION
My name is Ronnie and I have a marathon addiction. It started in 2009, when I got lucky in the ballot for the Flora London Marathon. I saw this as a sign to re-appraise my training and eating, so I joined a running club.
In the first stages of my addiction, I didn’t use energy gels, which I associated with elite athletes and ultrarunners. Gels entered my armoury after marathon number five, when I recognised a pattern of cramping, nausea and near blackouts at around mile 23. My marathon times were hovering just the wrong side of the fourhour mark. I needed something to push me through that final effort, something quickly and easily absorbed, and I was told gels could do that trick.
The main ingredient in a sports gel is maltodextrin, and fructose/ sucrose is also often present. The sweet gloop, easily swallowed, packs around 24g of carbohydrate in the form of concentrated starch and sugar.
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