TESTING, TESTING, 1, 2, 3

I DON'T THINK WE CAN EVER DO MUCH TESTING, I'd guess we don't do nearly enough.  It might even be worse than that...

... if you count all the testing done on RaceDay.

That's the rookiest move of all.

Hey man, what's that?

It's the new extraspecialgood humdinger.

Does it work.

Oh, for sure.

I don't fall for that any more, not that it's ever malicious...

... it's just plain crazy to try something new when it counts.

Months out from my bigcrazy goal to ride 150 miles from the surf in Dana Point to the top of Big Bear, I thought I'd do some testing.

Nothing too fancy.

Just wanted to mount up the 3rd bottle cage and load all three bottles with a drink I've experimenting with.

I'm using the Arundel cages, by far the strongest gripping cage I've ever found.  Light, too.

The goal was to see if the bottle would become dislodged, and see how disgusting it was when it came time to drinkin'.

The cage worked great.  No surprise.

No water crossings or horse poop, etc on the bottle... 

... just a layer of dust.

The drink is a winner as well, although it is a little weird.

Let me explain.

A few years back, I came across this amazing drink.  It delivered a ton of calories per bottle and had a mellow taste.  This is definitely what you want when you need to drink your calories vs eat them.  Such as bumpy trails and roads.

It had one problem...

... it was nearly impossible to mix.  

I had to use a blender, and then it was so sticky it would gum up the bottles and bladders if it had a chance to settle.  And it had this weird, slippery texture.

Really weird stuff.

This new drink is similar. 

700 calories/bottle.

Same weird consistency.

But, it does mix well.

Allen Lim, SkratchLabs, developed it.  The reason the consistency is unique from all other sports drinks is it's a different molecule.  It's smaller.  And it matters for digestion.

It's called SuperFuel.

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8.75 hrs  
11 Pull Ups + 12 Power PushUps + 5 Heavy Squats
20 minutes recovery
45 minutes reading + Journaling