I hate to plug products as if they give someone trouble, you’ve made an enemy. I did a 4 day stage race this past weekend (I won stage 2 and 4 in a sprint!!) and the distributor of Gensan products was there. I bought a tub of the Adhoc Ipotonic drink and some gel. Not that I’ll say the stuff did any better than anything else but I found the Adhoc to be extremely good tasting. They put a little sodium bicarbonate in it so it tasted like citrus soda. The little fizz tastes good, but is not enough to cause you to belch. I used it as an alternate to my usuall stuff and will continue to do so. It’s touted by Chipo and the Vicanza boys so it must have made my sprint better. The website www.gensanusa.com has the scoop. The gel was tasty, but I’ve sold my soul to Enervit cola gel.
As for the race I finished 12th overall as the day one TT times set the field and they didn’t have a time bonus for the win. I lost 1:30 in 10 miles of TT and couldn’t get it back. So I went for the wins and made a hundred bucks and was happy to take the last sprint from a lead out of a guy who had the biggest pull I’ve ever benefited from. His legs were like tree trunks and pulled for 600m with a brisk side wind. He could have move across the road and let me die in the wind. The gift was well received and my son thinks I won the Tour De France.