Advice needed!

[Bierzo Baggie]

Thanks for all your very helpful comments.

The salt tablets might mess up my stomach and I’ve never tried them before so I’ll leave them in the cupboard.

I’ve been given gels a couple of times in races and I can’t remember them causing me any problems (unlike isotonic drinks which give me gyp when I’m running). At the moment I’ve got one apple flavoured sachet of goo so I’ll probably buy a couple more tomorrow.

I’m a big fig fan (try saying that with a couple of figs in yer mouth). Last year I tried to get around with water, a bagful of dried fruit and nothing else. It was too hot, I sweated buckets and I had difficulty getting any solid food down me. Ended up feeling very drained on a big climb and was so slow I arrived at a checkpoint out of time. I reckon a gel or two might have helped.

Cheers again!