One serving is about $20. It is cost prohibitive for most people to be used that often.
It's the price of a pizza, which isn't really that prohibitive. It's more a question of if it works for you. I'd give it a go if they sold single serving samples, but I'm not shelling out £60 for 4 servings of something that could just be snake oil.
One serving is about $20. It is cost prohibitive for most people to be used that often.
No, not really. You only take bicarb on race day. And only for races that are important. So the number of times per year you would be taking bicarb is pretty small. It doesn't cost very much per year. So it's not actually cost prohibitive.
Well damm, $70. Is it supposed to work with one serving? Is this stuff legal and or regulated?
Of course it's legal. The hydrogel that Maurten uses for the delivery system is based on the stuff it uses in its drinks and gels. And the bicarb is the same stuff you use if you bake a cake. There's nothing to regulate here. I go back and forth in my head over whether it should be permissible in competition. It's not that it's a PED, but it artificially increases your body's tolerance to lactic build-up. That's something that is trainable, but the bicarb product provides a shortcut. That seems like it goes against the spirit of the sport, even if it's within the current rules. But I guess you could say the same of super shoes
Well damm, $70. Is it supposed to work with one serving? Is this stuff legal and or regulated?
Of course it's legal. The hydrogel that Maurten uses for the delivery system is based on the stuff it uses in its drinks and gels. And the bicarb is the same stuff you use if you bake a cake. There's nothing to regulate here. I go back and forth in my head over whether it should be permissible in competition. It's not that it's a PED, but it artificially increases your body's tolerance to lactic build-up. That's something that is trainable, but the bicarb product provides a shortcut. That seems like it goes against the spirit of the sport, even if it's within the current rules. But I guess you could say the same of super shoes
Well damm, $70. Is it supposed to work with one serving? Is this stuff legal and or regulated?
Of course it's legal. The hydrogel that Maurten uses for the delivery system is based on the stuff it uses in its drinks and gels. And the bicarb is the same stuff you use if you bake a cake. There's nothing to regulate here. I go back and forth in my head over whether it should be permissible in competition. It's not that it's a PED, but it artificially increases your body's tolerance to lactic build-up. That's something that is trainable, but the bicarb product provides a shortcut. That seems like it goes against the spirit of the sport, even if it's within the current rules. But I guess you could say the same of super shoes
Sodium Bicarb broke into mainstream running awareness back in the early 2000s, although its use had been around for a long time before then. I think there might have even been an article in Runners World. Anyway, I tried it and it didn't work for me.
I would either be nauseous or get explosive diarrhea. At low doses it didn't seem to help at all so the risk/reward ratio seemed skewed way towards the negative.
Maurten Bicarb claims to have solved that problem, but it's nearly $20/dose. One of the golden rules of running is never eat, drink, or wear anything different on race day that you haven't done routinely on your hard practice days so a runner would be looking at an annual cost of >$2,000 per year.
At the pro level where money is on the line, yeah, probably a lot of pros use it, but I'd hesitate to guess how many. I'd also guess that a lot more cyclists use it. When the entry cost of a high level bike, kit, shoes, pedals, and power meter is approaching $10,000, then an extra two grand for a supplement is more acceptable.
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One of the golden rules of running is never eat, drink, or wear anything different on race day that you haven't done routinely on your hard practice days so a runner would be looking at an annual cost of >$2,000 per year.
$2,000? Not doing anything new on race day doesn’t mean practicing your race plan 19 times lol. I’d be comfortable trying bicarb on two hard long runs and then race day if I had zero negative effects. Not that expensive.
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Maurten Bicarb claims to have solved that problem, but it's nearly $20/dose. One of the golden rules of running is never eat, drink, or wear anything different on race day that you haven't done routinely on your hard practice days so a runner would be looking at
an annual cost of >$2,000 per year.
That's not true. You're exaggerating. $2,000 per year is 100 doses.
You don't need to use it 90 days per year in practice just to figure out if you can use it for 10 races per year.
Of course it's legal. The hydrogel that Maurten uses for the delivery system is based on the stuff it uses in its drinks and gels. And the bicarb is the same stuff you use if you bake a cake. There's nothing to regulate here. I go back and forth in my head over whether it should be permissible in competition. It's not that it's a PED, but it artificially increases your body's tolerance to lactic build-up. That's something that is trainable, but the bicarb product provides a shortcut. That seems like it goes against the spirit of the sport, even if it's within the current rules. But I guess you could say the same of super shoes
Sodium Bicarb broke into mainstream running awareness back in the early 2000s, although its use had been around for a long time before then. I think there might have even been an article in Runners World. Anyway, I tried it and it didn't work for me.
I would either be nauseous or get explosive diarrhea. At low doses it didn't seem to help at all so the risk/reward ratio seemed skewed way towards the negative.
Maurten Bicarb claims to have solved that problem, but it's nearly $20/dose. One of the golden rules of running is never eat, drink, or wear anything different on race day that you haven't done routinely on your hard practice days so a runner would be looking at an annual cost of >$2,000 per year.
At the pro level where money is on the line, yeah, probably a lot of pros use it, but I'd hesitate to guess how many. I'd also guess that a lot more cyclists use it. When the entry cost of a high level bike, kit, shoes, pedals, and power meter is approaching $10,000, then an extra two grand for a supplement is more acceptable.
2,000? Why would you have to buy it 100 times to find out if you can handle it? maybe try it once or twice to see if you can tolerate it then away you go?
Of course it's legal. The hydrogel that Maurten uses for the delivery system is based on the stuff it uses in its drinks and gels. And the bicarb is the same stuff you use if you bake a cake. There's nothing to regulate here. I go back and forth in my head over whether it should be permissible in competition. It's not that it's a PED, but it artificially increases your body's tolerance to lactic build-up. That's something that is trainable, but the bicarb product provides a shortcut. That seems like it goes against the spirit of the sport, even if it's within the current rules. But I guess you could say the same of super shoes
Sodium Bicarb broke into mainstream running awareness back in the early 2000s, although its use had been around for a long time before then. I think there might have even been an article in Runners World. Anyway, I tried it and it didn't work for me.
I would either be nauseous or get explosive diarrhea. At low doses it didn't seem to help at all so the risk/reward ratio seemed skewed way towards the negative.
Maurten Bicarb claims to have solved that problem, but it's nearly $20/dose. One of the golden rules of running is never eat, drink, or wear anything different on race day that you haven't done routinely on your hard practice days so a runner would be looking at an annual cost of >$2,000 per year.
At the pro level where money is on the line, yeah, probably a lot of pros use it, but I'd hesitate to guess how many. I'd also guess that a lot more cyclists use it. When the entry cost of a high level bike, kit, shoes, pedals, and power meter is approaching $10,000, then an extra two grand for a supplement is more acceptable.
Why use it for so many workouts? Maybe just test it a few times in workouts and then save it for key races. That is A LOT less than $2000.