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    LIQUID GOLD

    Jun 03, 2019 5 minutes

    Full disclosure: In my early ultra-running life

    I used energy gels, however I no longer do. I also think that using gels for running road half marathons and shorter events is rather weird.

    The human body is incredibly well adapted for running long distances. For millions of years our ancestors apparently killed stronger and faster animals by persistence hunting where they chased an animal for long periods and distances until it collapsed from hyperthermia.

    When they were hunting kudu on the African savannahs I’m pretty sure they didn’t need sugar transfusions to get through the day.

    If anything, they would have carried snack versions of their normal food or foraged along the way.

    Sports energy gels emerged in the mid 1980s in the UK and were (and

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