There's nothing at the movie show when you're dead

Following on from yesterday's post, about avoiding cramp.

Lots of people rubbished the idea of sports drinks, suggesting instead that sugar/water/salt solution was what I wanted. So, yesterday I duly mixed up the WHO-approved quantities and added lemon juice to make it taste less nasty.

Ewww. Vile stuff. ( Vile )

I appreciate that, were I dying of cholera, I might be prepared to drink it. Grateful, even. However. I am not dying of cholera, and I live in a country where commerically-prepared non-disgusting electrolyte powder is readily available.

Ideally, I'd like something like High 5 Zero, as alien8 suggested, which is purely electrolyte replacement (ie not an "energy drink", since I'm not using it in an exercise context). But I'd still prefer to just pop into a shop. So, next stop is Holland & Barrett to see if I can find some of their pre-mixed powder which valkyriekaren recommended. Ooh, unless the nice branch of Evans Cycles in Reading carries the High 5 stuff...

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

This lunchtime, I walked with a couple of colleagues to Morrissons. To get there, we trundled along a shared use footpath-and-cyclepath sandwiched between the A33 and the canal. We came back to the office down a bridleway between the sewage treatment works and the tip. Oh yes, we know how to live.

All along the bridleway are sprawling bramble bushes, covered with fat, glossy, tasty brambles. All well above even quite large dog-height.

So, I've washed the chicken salad remnants out of my baitbox. Me, the plastic box and the bike might be taking a slight detour on the way home tonight...