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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. I'd expected to find the saltiness of the drink a problem, which actually it wasn't particularly. The problem was what I can only think of calling the texture. What looked like normal water suddenly became repellently... silky, somehow, sliding over my tongue like a big fat roll of gross fluid. I drank half a pint of the stuff, then gave up. I also didn't get cramp last night, in fairness, though I'd have to try it for a few more nights to be sure that wasn't random chance.

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...