TransAndes 2 – Recovery is Your Only Option
“It’s the Recovery, Stupid!” This could apply to the global economy, yes, but we’re not going there. In the TransAndes it applies to recovery, both after the race and during the race. Yes, during the race. Recovery is not just about chocolate milk after a workout. It is a pillar of ultra endurance racing nutrition [...]
TransAndes 1 – Learning Team Tactics
What Counted in Stage 1: When does 1+1=3? If you hold up 2 black lines evenly spaced on a sheet of white paper and ask people how many lines they see, most people answer “2″. But if you count the white line inbetween the two black lines then there are, in fact, 3 lines that [...]
TransAndes Challenge – Everything Counts
Welcome to the “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” tour….On Monday Brian Vaughan, CEO of GU Energy Labs, and Yuri Hauswald, friend and professional mountain biker, will compete together as a team in the TransAndes Challenge, a 6 day stage race across the Andes Mountains in Chilean Patagonia. But it’s going to be a [...]
Introducing Roctane Energy Drink
Finally, a drink designed for the ultra endurance athlete. Why? Because at the beginning, middle and end of any big, burly event or training session, there are two things that really matter when it comes to ultra endurance nutrition – taste and performance. Think about the energy sources for your last ultra distance outing. They had [...]
“Lumpy and chalky” is not an option for Ironman nutrition.
GU’s Roctane completely changed the game. They’ve given the triathlete exactly what they had always been missing and ultimately the sport, they put together the next generation of endurance fuel that met all the needs of the athlete and did so in a manner which could be ingested in a couple different ways and on [...]
