[Skybird]

Gatorade and accoprding drinks I find to be some of the worst stuff you can drink, it always made me feel very bad, and "heavy". On Radler, consider that the ammount of alcohol in it is very small, and that there is also quite some ammount of sugar in that drink, and this when you physicall are running in "higher tunes".

I just can describe the effect 0.5 l of that brew, cooled, has on me when I am exhaustedly standing on top of the Teutoburger Wald hills, a geographical annoyance I meet after havinf done around 30 km on bike in hot weather. It is slightly (slightly!) relaxing (alcohol) and enpowering (sugar) at the same time, and helps to get me cooled qickly. It is definitely a revitalisation, and kills thirst very quickly. And now, it does not return after even shorter time.

Again, mind you, we do not talk about hard drinks and 0.5 l of beer, but just 0.25 of light beer.

Specially mixed sports drinks with added jkinerals and such, are most effective when being drunk is small quantities, but regularly, every 15-20 minutes two or three swallows. It is not the drink of choice when doing a major break during long sports activity, I say from private experience, it is better used dfuring the activity/tour, but frequently. To get refreshed and powered-up during a major break, Radler or a light beer is the superior choice.

I do a lot of biking here during the warm half of the year, and have tested lots of that stuff, and manually created "mixtures". I have come back to Radler, and an isotonic specialised sports drink that over here you only get in pharmacies, developed by the Sporthochschule Köln - it tastes terrible, but really works well when being consumed regularly during activity, in small quantities. It increases muscles' endurance. But Gatorade, Red Bull and such - forget it, it is nonsense. Some longer time ago I saw a docu on TV they examined it both in laboratory and with athletes in the real world. The finding was not really surprisingf for me: a normal coup of coffee vitlaises oyu more and battles tireness better than a can of Red Bull or even two, and the special effect of special sports drinkio like Gatorade and others you buy in the supermarket the doctors were not able to demonstrate. Coffee - or green or black tea! Cheaper, and superior.