Before I go into any detail and get people going, I was just wondering what happens to your body, in a race, when you take in gel that has been expired for 13 months? Has anyone had any experience with this?
Peelee
Blazeman Warrior
Team Snickers
Virginia Double Iron 07
Eagleman 08
Silverman 08
I eat them, never had a problem. My record is eating powerbars more than two years after the expiration date.
ok that settles it, I am sending you more M&M’s and Quizno’s. 
As long as they are in the packet, its ok. I made the mistake of grabbing a gel flask out of mu duffel that was like three weeks old and heading out on a 100 mile ride with it. I gagged then puked, because it was so nasty.
For me M&M’s have no expiration date.
I bet I could eat the ones that went up in one of the Apollo missions that are on display at the Smithsonian in DC!
That link was a little nasty but funny…especially since that’s the way I felt at IM USA this year. I wasn’t racing per say this year because I’m getting ready for the double in Oct…but after all the ridiculous hours I put in I was actually on track for a PR, but I was too walk/run after 10KM so I will recover faster. Even if I wanted to run…I wouldn’t have been able to…mile 5 started some major gas. It was painful…mile 15…started to smell really bad…a little embarrassing.
When I started to run…pain…then gas…then run…then pain…then gas. Nutrition was spot on this day. In the medical tent afterwards…I was there because I threw up at the finish line…sprinting from outside the oval so that I wasn’t in the way of someone finishing when I rolled over the line…it caused me to throw up…which is an automatic trip to the medical tent. I told them about the gas…and they said it was very weird because they’ve had literally hundreds of people complaining about that.
When I cleaned out my ironman bags there was one gel from the race still in my fuel belt…of course from the aid station…it was 13 months expired. What the…? So I thought I’d ask just to be educated on this topic. I’m not mad because the farting saved me from not recovering fast enough and I have 50 miles this week to run. Happy to say…almost done!
Peelee
Blazeman Warrior
Team Snickers
Virginia Double Iron 07
Eagleman 08
Silverman 08