There are five flavours available: chocolate orange, peanut butter jelly, peanut butter, chocolate raspberry, and chocolate walnut brownie. The sweet date flavour is dominant in each of these – you can tell it's the main ingredient – and there's no huge flavour difference between them, which I find is the case for many raw energy bars. SIS might be the better-known brand, but Maurten was the first to create a gel with a 1:0.8 ratio of glucose to fructose, and it's a brand that is not afraid to follow science to improve its product. To this end, the Gel 100 is more like jelly than gel thanks to its Hydrogel formula which is made using pectin (from fruit fibre) and alginate (from seaweed). The BHF recommends no more than 6mg a salt and 2500mg sodium each day, so you're probably ok to have a couple of servings in a ride, especially given you're losing salts from your body when you sweat a lot. The foundation of our hydration mixes, meanwhile, is coconut water. Bursting with electrolytes and thought to help the human body replace fluids faster than water, there’s no wonder it’s been dubbed Mother Nature’s sports drink. With all of our products, it’s about balancing short-term performance and recovery with long-term health.

I had a much better understanding of my body after the 2014 event. I’d made so many mistakes in 2014 and I was able to reflect on them and see what I had done wrong and try to improve for the following year. In 2015 my mind was much more focussed and I felt that I was very much in control of myself. Fuelling for epic rides — how to get the right food to keep your energy levels up and avoid the dreaded bonkThe Tour Divide starts on 10 th June and then once that’s done I’m looking forward to a break afterwards. After that, the focus will be firmly on the Atlas Mountain Race and Rhino Run later this year in October. Added extras: Does the gel add in any other performance-enhancing ingredients or technologies such as caffeine. It’s an easy one to remember - I was in the Juvenile category at the Eastern MTB Series. I false started then finished last. Then in my second race, having switched to SPDs for the first time, I fell over on the start line and then came last, again. He said the company will continue to stay focused on the UK market with the view of European expansion in the first-quarter of 2020. A full endurance offering​

Dextrose (which is another word for glucose) or maltodextrin (a chain of dextrose molecules which is easier on the stomach). Not to be pedantic, but it's not 400mg of salt, it's 400mg of sodium. Per 25g serving it's actually just 1.0g of salt. Both myself and Charlie will be riding on the day and we hope people will want to join us, chat along the way and enjoy the day. This clearly put you in good stead as you went on to win that 2015 edition of the TCR. Can you remember your feelings when reaching the finish? The whole events scene was turned on its head in 2020 when the pandemic took hold. How did you find the period during COVID?Rawvelo will start development of its protein products in the coming weeks and will likely use a blend of vegan sources, ideally pea and hemp Evans said, the latter of which contains all the essential amino acids. This 16th October will see the inaugural Tanfield Tour of Yorkshire take to the roads of the county, created by the highly talented Tanfield brothers, both professional riders as well as former national and world champions in their own rights. The sportive sees 150 riders take on either 47, 115, or 147 km routes, each with Rawvelo feed stations to keep everyone energised and hydrated throughout the day.

The hydration drink mix is available in either lemon or raspberry flavour and comes in a powder that you mix with water. It contains an A-list of organic ingredients, including raw cane sugar, glucose, coconut water powder, pink Himalayan sea salt and natural flavourings. The majority of pre-mix endurance drinks on the market promoted energy and hydration in combination, he said, but Rawvelo believes and has collated evidence to suggest these two functions are best separated. “The main reason is the body can't absorb all the electrolytes if there's too much carbohydrate. ...You need a balance of the two.”​ Hemp and pea protein R&D​ A rider who’s taken on nearly every endurance discipline going on the bike, we spoke to Rawvelo ambassador Josh Ibbett just before he set off on his journey to Canada for the start of the Tour Divide about where it all started, how it’s been going (spoiler - pretty well!) and what challenges lie ahead.G:F ratio: This relates to the Glucose to Fructose ratio. With the body's ability to process 60 grams of glucose and a further 30+ grams of fructose per hour, it's useful to know what ratio is provided in each serving to help you fuel efficiently. Importantly, all of Rawvelo's NPD will continue to be organic and vegan, Evans said – two trends that are becoming increasingly important in the market.

Thankfully not, but unfortunately, there's no free and easy way to find a gel that you think tastes nice, so to get this dialled you'll probably have to play with a bit of trial and error. As a young rider I always seemed to do better at the slightly longer events. I won the Junior 3 Peaks CX which was pretty much as long and tough a race as you could do at that age. As things progressed I got a place on a team called Extreme Endurance who focussed on the 12 and 24h race scene, so being around those races it was a natural development for me to take part in them and gradually increase the distances of my races. All those formative years racing around muddy fields for 24-hours taught me a lot of the basic skills that I was later to call upon in the ultra endurance world. Finishing second in just your first attempt at the TCR is pretty impressive! What were the main learnings you took from that experience? So while the Rawvelo energy bars aren't the cheapest, they're by no means the most expensive either, and they do have the added benefit of fully organic and raw ingredients, adding to their value. Conclusion Obviously, the gels themselves wouldn't cross over but definitely the energy bars, protein bars and protein drink mixes, which are all vegan, we see as being a good fit.”​The main things I learnt were about keeping a tab on your emotions and learning how energy levels affect them. It was an emotional roller coaster but upon reflection I realised that the highs were probably when I was well fuelled and the lows were when I was in need of a good meal. Understanding why your mood is changing is a key part of these events and it's often a very simple solution… just eat something and get some sleep! The years after TCR15 I felt that I had to win any event that I attended. But by focusing on just winning you often forget the basics and without the basics you often don’t finish, let alone win.