Re: Cramp

"Paul Boyd" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46ed3b62$0$8428$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Am I getting enough salt? Sounds like a strange question, given we're
accused of eating too much.

I don't often cramp whilst cycling, but used to get it afterwards. I just munch a packet of ready-salted crisps at some point, and that seems to prevent cramp OK. Even they seem to have much less salt now than they used to, but presumably still have enough. I do also usually have an isotonic drink in the water bottle, but the CamelBak just has plain water in it.

In the alps we took to putting a bit of salt in our normal diluted fruit juice (50:50 juice to water) bottles. It seemed to help. (not too much otherwise it tastes horrible)

We also eat crisps - you can tell you're down on salt when they taste _really_ good.

cheers,
clive

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