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If anyone has some advice, I'd kind of like to hear the answer to this one, too. Doesn't it supposedly have lots of B vitamins, no sugar, no caffeine? I've never tried it, but thought about it....
It has 138 mg caffeine, about like a large coffee.
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Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
I've tried it for running, work, and standardized tests and never felt anything with it alone. But I haven't felt any effect from an "energy drink" since I spent a summer drinking Bawls when I was injured.
My friend had a deadly mixture of a full can of monster, 2 5 hour energy shots, and a redbull, into his nalgene bottle. I tried it one day.. it cost about $9, and I don't think $9 is worth the 20 minutes of sick feeling after finishing it off. He claims it helped him with his pole vaulting.
I'm thinking energy drinks like these aren't what runners should be looking for.
I'm surprised he needed a pole after that.
tried it for the first time before my last marathon. huge PR by 12 minutes. no ill effects. did seem to make me a little wired before the gun, but don't know that helped or hinderd my effort.
I'll do it next time for my sub 3:00 attempt this fall.
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Anyone ever use this stuff while running?I.
To be honest, i've never ran for 5 hours straight.
I did take one at the midpoint of my 1st Marathon. On face value does not seem like good idea, but reading a lot of Marathon gurus drink cofee right before marathon figured would not hurt and needed any edge I could get.
Did not want to take at the start as did not want to be too jacked up for the first half. Plan was to pickup at 1/2 mark when passed family and keep until 17 - 18 miles and take to help fight off the wall. Not wanting to carry it for 4 - 5 more miles I took at about 13.5 miles.
Not sure if that helped at all as I held pretty strong through 22 - 23 before hitting the wall. Being first marathon not sure if would have felt better or worse without taking the 5 hr energy.
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not the crash you get with coffee.
There is no crash with coffee.
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