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Chocolate milk
I love chocolate milk when riding. Sometimes do a litre of that in place of a bottle of water.
On IndyPac I got to one of the roadhouses one evening and found that there was no chocolate milk left. I realised I was too far down the field and the people in front had taken it all. So I said I'm not letting that happen again, rode an all-nighter, made up 10 places and always found chocolate milk every time I stopped after that.Other drink I use a bit, but only at the end of rides if stomach a bit iffy is Lucozade. A litre of that in my bottle leaving the final control is an effective way to close out an audax - don't need to eat again if I have that.
frank9755-
I've never put it in a bottle or a bladder but I will neck a bottle at a garage or a supermarket (1L cartons in the USA finished before I'd even got to the checkout ftw!)
Haha that's awesome re: indypac I'd fuck people up if they were taking my Iced Coffees - that's the main reason I go back to Oz! (sorry fam, it's about the iced coffee...)
Lucozade and Lucozade Sport featured heavily in UK because they tended to be cheapest big bottles that weren't Coke, Sprite, etc. Lucozade Orange is the best but being fizzy it'd often fizz over the bike, so I moved towards the Sport versions. It's still shitty plastic but I will try to use the bigger bottles to somewhat reduce plastic amount. It's not like I can't drink it after all. In Europe there's more places to get drinking water (hey UK they're called taps ffs, install some!) so that's less of an issue.
Going into an ALDI or similar if they're available mean you can get even bigger bottles but they tend not to be cold which may or may not be an issue.
Oh I did try fish oil caps a while back. Something to do with heart health but it's like "so, I spend £1000 on these over a few years, what actual impact will it have?" and I stopped
hippy
I stopped taking most supps - there's actually some evidence they do more harm than good.
Vit D is all I use nowadays (unless there's a specific issue, ie. I would use B12 again for nerve damage).
Although I'm still a big unit, I think my diet is much healthier than it used to be - I try to get more variety in my food and more fruit and veggies these days. Nuts and seeds too. All of these are my multivitamins. Less ice cream more fruit and yog. Less sweets more dark chocolate and dates.
There is some evidence for Zinc re: colds or upper respiratory stuff but I try not to get the cold in the first place by noting when I'm feeling run down and increasing rest and staying the fuck away from the Tube (easy with Covid lockdown).
Chocolate milk. I do still have bags of Torq recovery powder left over from when I used it a lot so I use that now and then after bigger sessions or if I know I'm doing back to back sessions. My on the bike eating has got pretty bad though since moving from x grams / hr of carbs to "whatever you can buy and carry from the gas station" hence looking into DIY gels again.
Oh, on longer, hotter ultras I might take electrolyte/salt pills with me. I don't really cramp these days but they're insurance against my heavy sweating.