{"id":5166,"date":"2013-03-05T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2013-03-05T08:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:24:21","slug":"gu-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=5166","title":{"rendered":"Gu Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t talked about it much until now (it was a little bit of a late addition to the sponsor list), but it’s high time I made this post. All of my sponsors are great, and they’re all very important pieces of the race season puzzle, but today’s post is dedicated to Gu Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Details aside, they’ve made both a product and race entry contribution that’s so significant, it’s allowing me (budget-wise) to go to an extra stage race (TSE) this season along with the Breck Epic. If you know anything about mountain bike stage races, you know that they’re expensive as all getout- not just the entry fees, but also the cost of travel, lodging, etc. I’m incredibly privileged to have such a generous sponsorship, and I hope that all of you who are reading this take it into account when you make your next nutrition purchase at the bike shop.<\/p>\n

I mean, it should go without saying, but, like most of my other sponsors, I used Gu products way before they had any idea that I like to ride a bike at high rates of speed. Just a quick rundown:<\/p>\n

Roctane<\/a> (gel and drink mix) is one of my most favorite nutrition formulations of all time, and, even if I wasn’t sponsored by them, I’d still mainline it during my hard training & racing efforts. In the words of my friend Forrest Owens, “it hits you like a freight train through a wet paper sack.”<\/p>\n

Gu Chomps<\/a> are like athlete candy. I use them a lot as a pre-ride snack, but you can eat them any time just like you would a regular gel (there are two servings per pack). Confession- sometimes I want to ride just so I’ll have an excuse to eat them. They’re crazy tasty.<\/p>\n

Recovery Brew<\/a> is also something you’ll start craving once you’ve had it. I’ve taken to making various recovery brew recipes. My current favorite (since it’s cold & gross outside) is heating up 1\/2 water 1\/2 goats milk in the microwave (just enough to make it warm) then pouring it over the chocolate smoothie recovery powder in the shaker bottle. It’s like having post-ride hot chocolate.<\/p>\n

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P.S. There are two other people that use the pictured shelves & drawers for storage, so other stuff is bound to show up in photos.<\/p>\n

P.P.S. Honorable mention to the new style purist bottle- holds 22oz, softer plastic than your usual bottle, and a water hose for a spout. That shaker bottle is pretty sweet, too, and you don’t actually have to use it in the same manner that Poolboy Matt does for it to be effective.<\/p>\n

I haven’t pictured the electrolyte brew<\/a> and tablets<\/a>. I like the Roctane so much that I generally just drink it in my bottles, however, the electrolyte brew does have a lot more salt in it that I’ll be craving in the summer time, so it’ll likely show up on the shelves in the next couple of months.<\/p>\n

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