Andy Blow reviews Go Faster Foods' Go Bites to see how they might fit in with his nutrition strategy for endurance racing.
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\nHe was once the Team Sports Scientist for the Benetton and Renault Formula 1 teams and remains an adviser to the Porsche Human Performance Centre at Silverstone.
\nAndy has finished in the top 10 of IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 races, as well as winning an XTERRA Age Group World title. It was his own struggles with cramp that led to him specialising in hydration and founding Precision Fuel & Hydration.
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\nOur approach to fueling means we’re always on the look out for new and exciting looking energy snacks that fit well with our hydration products during longer training sessions and races and not long ago we stumbled upon Go Bites from fellow British small business Go Faster Food, which is run by Kate Percy who wrote the book of the same name.
\nGo Bites are all-natural energy balls principally made up of dates and other dried fruit (raisins and apricots depending on the exact flavour you go for) with nuts, oils and refreshingly few other ingredients. They come nicely pre-packaged in packs of 3 which makes them great for sticking in your pocket when running or cycling.
\nThey contain around 6-7g of carbs per ball (so around 19g of carbs per 3 pack) making them less dense gram for gram than more processed energy food like gels (as you’d expect) but still a viable source of calories when you’re out there putting in the hard miles.
\nUnlike most processed energy products they taste and feel much more ‘real’ - probably because they are real! I found myself looking forward to munching on them much more than I would a gel or something synthetic when I was out during a longer training day.
\nI had a few packs delivered to the office recently and they lived up to their name and went extremely fast! In fact I think they’d gone within 48 hours of arriving, such was their popularity as alternative nibbles with morning a coffee and that's not something that would have happened with most sports nutrition products.
\nDave also used some on his recent cycling trip across Holland and Belgium and said that he looked forward to the Go Bites more than any of the other products he had packed.
\nSo, in all the Go Bites get a big thumbs up from us. Whilst they’re not going to replace standard energy gels and bars for all of us, all of the time - sometimes you do just need some super concentrated calories with minimal fibre when racing hard - they bridge the gap between real food and training nutritional very nicely indeed.
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