Thought Sausage

Apparently, electrolytes are real. All along I thought that was some bullshit market speak jargon to help sell Gatorade, since the true value in it was the sugar it was replacing in your body.

I know this because in practice this week, when we began ramping up the yards, my calves and the bottom of my feet began cramping like a mofo. I know I've waxed poetic about this before, but I decided to ask the coach if he had any remedies or explanations for this. He suggested I might not be getting enough salt or 'electrolytes'. Well I'll be damned.

It's not that I have anything against Gatorade persay. Well, the reason I've never drank it is because water has always been my weapon of choice, and the only opportunities I've had to change up are on distance runs with water stations, or on RAGBRAI. Well on Ragbrai, when you fill your bottles up with Gatorade, they tend to taste like "Fire Red", or "Xtreme Lemon" or whatever the fuck they call it for about the first half hour. But once it warms up, you've basically got a warm bottle of ass. As least when water gets warm, it still tastes like water you know what I mean? I think in Hawaii instead of Gatorade, they had whatever the Japanese version of it is (I don't recall it, but I'd be willing to bet 20 bucks that the words "dragon", "lucky", "happy", or "Pao" were featured).

Anyhow, long story short, looks like i'll be acquiring some Gatorade to keep my calves from trying to sneak up into my knees.