Power bar gel Blasts

[Veronica]

Some of us are on vacation... I do feel guilty about the number of showers I take some days though. I shower after I run or ride in the morning. Then if I'm meeting with the trainer in the afternoon, I shower after my session with her. Don't even suggest Navy showers... hot water makes my sore muscles happy.

V.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

And then there is the electricity we're using to be on the internet.

V.

Yeah. And the carbon dioxide we pollute the earth with when we exhale!
We should just kill ourselves, or eat ourselves. (Soylent green, like they do with cows?)
Well, as most people here have as well I'm sure, I've made an effort to make lots of small choices and changes, it can add up. I've found many wasteful or environmentally bad things that I used to do just automatically without thinking about it, out of longstanding habit, and I've tried to do them better.

[Veronica]

My carbon dioxide is good for my indoor plants.

V.

[Blueberry]

Some of us are on vacation... I do feel guilty about the number of showers I take some days though. I shower after I run or ride in the morning. Then if I'm meeting with the trainer in the afternoon, I shower after my session with her. Don't even suggest Navy showers... hot water makes my sore muscles happy.

V.

I feel guilty too - but not that guilty I sweat when I ride. A lot. So, if I'm running errands by bike, etc. there will be a shower after the ride. If we walk (or do another ride), I shower again. I do try to keep them short....

[BikerDar]

So what's a gal to try if she can't stand things with the consistency of gummy bears, jelly beans, or gum drops?

I'm kinda partial to Jelly Belly Energizer Beans, but if I don't have those I'm also a big fan of dried fruit, raisins, cherries, berries.

[crazycanuck]

Let's all stop breathing for 10 seconds & see what that does..

Lisa-let's just say not all of us live as if we're trying to be the little house on the prairie family


Actually..since i am rather flatulent, i'd like one of the flatulence collection mechanisms a farm somewhere in the UK now has on all it's cows

[OakLeaf]

I feel guilty too - but not that guilty I sweat when I ride. A lot. So, if I'm running errands by bike, etc. there will be a shower after the ride. If we walk (or do another ride), I shower again. I do try to keep them short....

I amazed myself yesterday. I went out for my run, and when I came back the plumber was in our motel room fixing the tub leak we'd told the front desk about. This is an older property, so he had to turn the water off to the ENTIRE COMPLEX to work on our room We had about 20 minutes to get dressed and get to where we needed to be, and I couldn't even wash my face. The housekeepers let me use a room they were cleaning, to change in. And y'know what? it was fine. I felt really gross for about the first hour, then I got over it. I don't eat much animal products and I sweat heavily, so (I'm saying this myself, but I've heard it from others too) I don't really smell.

So I'm going to try to be better in the future about taking two showers in the same day - now that I know I can do it and not rot from within

[OakLeaf]

Use of precious non-renewable water that's been treated and transported to your tap to re-use an item. It takes a ton of water (plus soap) to wash the goo off plastic wrap.

Not all of us live in the thirsty West. Some of us have plentiful, untreated ground water. Granted it still takes electricity to run the pump (and at 300 feet, a hand pump is out of the question), but in comparison it's a small usage. And when you're washing your plastic bags in the same load as your other hand-wash dishes, there's some extra rinse water but no extra soap or wash water.

[Dogmama]

I put my potentially gooey stuff in plastic bags. Afterwards, I have something to put the gooey stuff in when I stuff it in my pockets with the rest of my stuff. So my stuff doesn't get gooey.

And back to the topic, powerbar shots are great. I had one yesterday and FLEW through my ride. For lactic acid buildup, though, you can't beat Cytomax.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa-let's just say not all of us live as if we're trying to be the little house on the prairie family

Making choices towards less unhealthy junk in foods and less plastics and waste that pollute the planet has little to do with being a "Little House on the Prairie family".

[maillotpois]

Just to bring this every so slightly back on topic , while we were away in bend after the Death Ride, we received our big Power bar shipment with some new products we're testing for our team for next year (and yes, we got a couple of big boxes of the Gel blasts, because Pine Sol and all I like them! And isn't that what reallly counts? ).

So..... for pre-ride/lunch, I am eating a PB Energize Fruit Smoothie bar, which in addition to a bunch of vitamins and minerals also has a lot of fruit in it and is pretty tasty. I have some PB Hydration in the bottle and will be using the standby PB Endurance drink for the ride I am about to go on. When I come back, I'll try the new PB Recovery bar which looks pretty good. (And then I'll have a lovely recovery drink from the Deschutes brewery stash.)

I've also got a pretty snazzy new kit! This is the first year ever their clothing has been at all appealing. So I'll wear that on my ride....

In the interest of full disclosure, we are sponsored by PB as TNT coaches and receive a large allotment of product every year - but the only reason I put the Gel Blast recommendation up was because I actually liked the product and it's new. I don't recommend stuff I don't like - and I certainly don't recommend stuff just because we're sponsored. We get a lot of product from them, for which I am very very grateful because it offsets the costs of providing SAG food to our Death Ride team every year.

[jobob]

For those so inclined, MP's pine sol pops are on sale at Chainlove.