Nutrition: Triathlete MultiSport Menu

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app.

In this month’s edition of Triathlete’s Multisport Menu, assistant editor Susan Grant reviews some of the newest nutrition products available for triathletes.

Print

Gu Roctane Pineapple ($2.50 each)

This fall Gu debuts two new gels: Roctane pineapple and a winter seasonal flavor, vanilla ginger. The new pineapple Roctane, part of GU’s premium gel line engineered specifically for training and racing, adds pineapple to the mix, debuting not only as a new flavor but Roctane’s first caffeine-free offering. It delivers the same powerful levels of performance-boosting citrates, ornithine alpha-ketaglutarate (OKG) and branched-chain amino acids for those sensitive to the effects of caffeine.

PrintHoliday Vanilla Ginger ($8 per 6-pack box)

For the holiday season, stores will see the addition of the flavor vanilla gingerbread.The new flavor complements Gu’s annual winter seasonal favorite, mint chocolate. A portion of the proceeds from the two holiday flavors benefits the Challenged Athletes Foundation. Gusports.com

597811446_iEMWt-L

Nuun U Cucumber Mint ($23.85 for three tubes)

Nuun is known for the unconventional, and was one of the first brands to deliver hydration tablets in a tube. For 2010, the Seattle-based company adds to it light “U” line a refreshing (and certainly unconventional) cucumber mint flavor. The flavor joins tangerine-ginger, goji berry green tea and lemon chai in the growing line. Nuun.com

MotorTabs12VarietySMotorTabs Mixed Berry ($27.99 per 24-count box)

The choice of Michellie Jones, MotorTabs supplements its hydration tablet (complete with 65 calories and 250 mg of sodium per use) with a new mixed berry flavor, adding to a line that includes fruit punch, grape, lemon-lime and orange. Motortabs.com

AActiVwater’s Talking Rain ($1.29/each)

Sometimes water is just too boring. That’s where ActiVwater comes in. Combining delicious, low-cal flavor with essential vitamins and minerals, ActiVwater is H20 for people who demand more from their liquids. Each of the line’s eight flavors has a different vitamin and supplement combination such as Vitamin A-Zinc, Gota Kola electrolytes and Glucosamine, found in the blackberry-flavored Balance beverage. Activwater.com

Jan Frodeno Reflects on His Final Ironman World Championship

Immediately after finishing 24th place at his final Ironman World Championships, the Olympic medalist (and three-time IMWC winner) explains what his race in Nice meant to him.

Keywords: