Essays on sweat, salt, heat, and the slow craft of running long. No clickbait, no SEO bait — just the science I dig up and the protocols I'm testing on myself.
I switched from $1.50-per-stick pre-mixes to four powders and a kitchen scale. Costs about $0.25 a bottle and works better for the kind of running I do.
The single most useful data point for hot-weather running. You need a bathroom scale, a water bottle, and one hour of honest effort.
I'm Sean. I'm a heavy sweater training for my first 100K, and the LMNT bills got embarrassing. So I sat down with a scale.