Not sure if this was stimulated by the 'caffeines going to kill us all thread'

But I have been considering using caffeine in races. In 6 years in the sport I have never used a caffeine in a race, with the only exception in that I used high 5 extreme on 2 occasions, once in a TT and once in an olympic distance. Both resulted in cramps out of nowhere. Since then I haven't touched the stuff.

I am a habitual caffeine user, love my coffee and have about 2-3 cups a day.
I don't seem to 'respond' to caffeine in that once a week I have 2 cups of coffee late at night - around an hour before bed and still drift off to sleep no problem.
Hence why I never thought of using it.

But the evidence FOR it is getting pretty compelling, and I could really do with that performance boost!

Only problem is, I don't use traditional energy products, I make my own, including gels. So not sure which was is best to incorporate it.
I was going to get some powdered caffeine, but now I am worried about overdosing!

The other issue with me and caffeine is occasionally, very very occasionally I get scintillating scotomas after a cup of coffee. But this is pretty rare.

So, how do you do your caffeine, do you start early? On the bike? Or just save it for the run?

I remember reading an article by Faris saying he used huge amounts, 10 of the 15 gels on the bike were caffeinated!