Your gel leaves 2 grams in the wrapper
Brady Holmer weighed a SiS Beta Fuel gel before and after squeezing: 40 grams labeled, about 38 delivered. Over an ultra that is most of an hour of fuel left in the foil.
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Mauri says his Chicago block was a volume experiment
Vinny Mauri says the build to Sunday's Chicago Marathon was about finding the ceiling on how much training he can absorb, in a quote posted by Chris Chavez. CITIUS MAG put out an interview with him on the treadmill training, his Chicago debut and his American record odds.
If I can push up the volume and realize I can take a lot more of it, maybe next block I don't have to.
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Hype check
Holmer weighs a gel packet, finds 2 grams never leave
Brady Holmer weighed a SiS Beta Fuel gel before and after squeezing it: full packet 76.0 g, squeezed packet 9.3 g, so about 38 of the labeled 40 g of carbs actually got out.
Five percent sounds like nothing. It is not nothing over a race.