If you can't stand the heat...

Help me, I'm melting....

Seriously, I just can no longer hack the heat here in Geneva. A mere leisurely stroll around my local park and I am literally drenched with sweat. Not pleasant. As you can imagine,  temperatures reaching the mid thirties do not make for the most enjoyable training experience. How anyone can run the Marathon Des Sables is a mystery to me...I struggle with 5k in this heat, nevermind a 6 stage race of 250k in the Sahara Desert.

Lucky then that with the gallons of sweat I appear to be losing I have found a delicious training aid to replace the valuable nutrients I am losing. I normally make my own sports drinks (see the post 'Drink Up') but with this unrelenting heat I felt I needed a helping hand, especially with training twice some days; it makes it even more important to be adequately hydrated.


Zero 7 is quite frankly, my new best friend. It has zero calories and zero sugar with no artificial nasties but is fully loaded with magnesium and electrolytes to replace those lost through sweat. It even claims that you can burn up to 41% more fat with every training mile instead of using a normal carbohydrate sports drink.


It comes in 3 flavours; citrus, berry and cherry-orange. My personal fav is citrus, it's nice and refreshing on a hot day. I often make the drink up the day before and pop it in the fridge overnight or the freezer for a few hours as I find nothing worse than a warm drink on a frazzling hot day.


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