Making my own running gel-experiment #1

There are no children featured in this blog post :)

So now that I am training for a half marathon I started looking at buying running gels. They are really expensive so I thought that I would try my hand at making my own. A quick google search revealed that I was far from the first person to try it. So, here I am. Dave was able to find the ingredients for this recipe http://www.summitpost.org/home-made-power-gels-energy-for-less/239378, so I'm starting with it.

I used 1oz of agave nectar, 3 oz of brown rice syrup, a dash of coarse (pickling) salt and a half of a tea bag of green tea. Dave couldn't find the green tea powder that I asked him for so this was the solution, let's see how it works.

There was really nothing to mixing these things together in the bottle and in about 60 seconds I had them all together. I did note that the salt is still sitting at the bottom of the bottle looking pretty solid, so I put the bottle in really hot water to see if I could heat it up to get it to dissolve. I wont actually need it until my long training run this Saturday (aiming for 16K-that is almost 10 miles Christy) so I'll let you guys know then how it goes.
If we can track down some blackstrap molasses we can try out the next recipe.

Also, we can't find powdered Gatorade, if you know where I can find it locally that would be great!