Energy Gels

There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in around mile sixteen when your stomach starts making noises no polite conversation would allow. For a lot of runners, that dread traces back to one small silver packet — an energy gel that promised a boost and delivered a stitch, a caffeine jolt at the worst … Read more

Stand in front of the gel shelf at your local running shop and you’ll feel it too — that flicker of decision paralysis. Two brands dominate the conversation among serious endurance athletes right now: SIS and Maurten. One built its name on dual-source carbohydrate science and a Tour de France pedigree; the other turned a … Read more

Somewhere around mile 16 of a marathon, your legs stop being the problem. Your brain does. That heavy, foggy, can’t-string-a-thought-together feeling has a name among runners — “hitting the wall” — and it happens when your glycogen stores run dry faster than your body can replace them. Energy gels for running exist to solve exactly … Read more