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Water, Sugar, Salt - An Excellent Fuel for Endurance Athletes
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Making your own high-quality drink mix for running, cycling, and other endurance sports is extremely easy, and you can do it with the ingredients you already have at home. The fundamental ingredients for the best possible endurance fuel, including expensive drinks like Maurten, Roctane, and others, is simply: water, glucose, fructose, and sodium. In this video, Joey from TRACER shows how to make your own drink, and explains why making your own is just as good as expensive store-bought drink mixes.
Want to make your own gel rather than drink? See this: tracerfitness.com/blog/make-your-own-energy-gels
Save your money for gifts like these: tracerfitness.com/blog/the-best-trail-running-gifts-for-2025
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