Race fuel?

Dr Alice Roberts' BBC series "Don't Die Young" featured a programme on hydration. One part of the programme was about sports people and the amount of water they get through. She showed this by getting a couple of similar Bristol rugby players to drink a litre of water after an exhausting training session and then measured their urine output after 1 hour. The difference was that one player's water had had some salt added to it. The guy who drank the salt free water peed out very much more than the guy who had the saline solution. Alice recomended that if you were getting into a hydration situation then you should be adding some salt to your liquid as that enabled the water to stay absorbed by the cells rather than just get flushed through without doing a huge amount. Obviously don't put in more salt than you need and indeed if it tastes salty then you've probably put in too much, all you need is probably no more than you would put on a bag of chips. Does this work... well yes, from my perspective, when ever i am going to do any exercise i will firstly start with a half litre of squash with a dash of table salt added, you will certainly notice an improvement on calf cramping too.

Quote - We tend to make sure we have 20 camel's or embassy filters and an electronic lighter in the dry bag....if a long distance race we squeeze in 40

I've never tried eating fags, but I'll give it a go next time out

Dancing girls wrapped in cling film...which club is that? We'll have to get ourselves an event there.

Originally posted by theycallmegod I once did a National 12 Burton Week at Porthpean, and they brought us out foil wrapped pasties between races... Now that's a friendly club....

I once did  an open at island yacht club (canvey) and they brought us dancing girls wrapped in cling film......beat that!

If you think the 14's bad, try attaching food to a 600, let alone trying to sail the damn thing and eat at the same time. The easiest way (before i could actually sail the thing properly) is to have something small in the ba, dry capsize and eat it on the board 

We tend to make sure we have 20 camel's or embassy filters and an electronic lighter in the dry bag....if a long distance race we squeeze in 40