![]() ![]() Irvin 5K and Great Grandma’s Challenge, which enters participants in both the 5K on Friday night and full marathon on Saturday morning. “It’s reason for celebration, for sure, but the real work still lies ahead in making sure all these participants, as well as their families and friends, have a true Grandma’s Marathon experience when they come here in June.”Īs of Thursday, limited entries are available for William A. “It’s phenomenal to be talking about this in mid-March,” Marketing & Public Relations Director Zach Schneider said. More than 9,000 participants are signed up for both Grandma’s Marathon and the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon, keeping this year’s event on pace to be one of the largest race weekends in history. I got a lot of responses! Outside of Huma gel, I received tons of recommendations for Spring Energy gels and Science in Sport.The 2023 Grandma’s Marathon has reached its capacity, making one of the fastest sellouts on record for the 26.2-mile race. When I came back to the marathon this Spring after a season off, I had a bit of a dilemma with my gels - PowerBar discontinued the Simple Fruit gels! I took to Instagram and polled folks to see what other gels were out there for people with sensitive stomachs like me. ![]() Ever since, it’s allowed me to consume the 5 gels I need during a marathon (versus 3 when I was using just one type of gel). ![]() I’m pretty sure I read this in one of Matt Fitzgerald’s books on nutrition (either The Endurance Diet or The New Rules of Marathon and Half-Marathon Nutrition). ![]() I found that alternating gels with different types of sugars resulted in less GI distress for me. For the last couple years, I’ve been training with two different gels during my marathon - Huma gels and PowerBar Simple Fruit gels. ![]()
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