If you choose, you can do your first e-Gel 5-10 minutes before the race, but don’t forget to flush it down with a few ounces of water. During the race we recommend consuming one e-Gel pack every five miles (see table below). Always follow e-Gel with at least a few ounces of water. If you don’t carry your own water then find out ahead of time where the water stops are. Then you can plan where and when you will take each dose of e-Gel. It is important to go into the race with a well thought out race strategy – including your race pace, hydration and nutrition plans.

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Remember that water intake is critical to proper gel assimilation and we recommend consuming 14 ounces of water for each gel pack consumed. This does NOT mean that you should drink 14 ounces all at once, but you should drink 14 ounces before you rip open your second gel pack (an so on). The logic behind this is that if you are properly hydrated then you will have 20-30 ounces of available water in your stomach and intestinal tract. This water can be used to assimilate the gel, but if you don’t replace it then you can become dehydrated. If you’re not good about drinking water during a race then we recommend that you cut back your gel intake accordingly – or better yet, learn to drink water during the race! Dehydration is a sure way to have a bad race, or worse yet, suffer potentially serious health consequences.