Sports drink of choice...

While running....usually just water, maybe bring some Gatorade.

Afterwards, I usually go with my own mixture of sugar, water, salt and lemon juice.  Or a glass of 2% milk. 

Gatorade for workouts.  I'll stop at a gas station 3 hours into a 6 hour ride and buy 3 more cold pre-mixed bottles.  You can't do that with accelerade.  

Dinner or Lunch or Breakfast for recovery. 

I have been looking to try Gatorade Enurance Formula but was having a difficult time finding it. I finally found the Safeway store down the street stocks it so I went in to buy some and found it on sale for 10 for $10 for the large quart size bottles. I figured if it worked for me, great, if not the kids would drink it.

So far so good.

I usually have chocolate milk for a recovery drink.

Gu2O.  (Doesn't hurt that I'm "sponsored" by them).

22 oz. bottle gets three scoops of Gu2O and 2 scoops of Endurolyte powder.  16 oz. bottle is 2 scoops of Gu2O and one of Endurolytes.

I like it because it is not too sweet and seems to work really well for me.

I don't do anything for recovery at the moment other than eat as soon as possible and drink whatever I can get my hands on (quite often that is a Vitamin Water).

swishyskirt - 2007-07-09 1:57 PM I like drinking seriously watered down Gatorade for my workouts and follow most longer sessions with an Ensure protein shake (yeah, I know. Everyone tells me "Ew, that's what old people drink to gain weight!" for recovery. Anyway, recently I've been seeing a lot of ads for Accelerade, which sorta looks like Gatorade + protein (what a nifty idea!)...anyone had any experience with it? I'm thinking of trying it, just for fun.

I use a custom formula from Infinit Nutrition for training and raceday. When I'm on workouts over 3 hours or or race day, I add Carbopro to my nutrition bottle as well.

For recovery, I mix to scoops of Carbopro, one scoop of whey protein isolate, a teaspoon of glutamine, and about 12 ounces of orange juice. It's very tasty, and I get the 4:1 carb to protein ratio. When I get tired of orange, I just use something else like Acai' or blueberry juice.