What the hell are you drinking Steve? Urine?

Hello, and good morning everyone!

As promised, today will be a more cycling oriented post.  Over the past few months I've read.  A lot.  I read everything from the random babble of /r/bicycling on reddit, to the elitism banter on bikeforums.net.  I don't pay attention to many of the posts, and it would be great if my visitors came here for a filtered version of each.

In any case, I've picked up a recipe from somewhere online and kinda customized it to be my own.  I've stopped drinking sports drinks to replenish what my body clearly craves, electrolytes.  I'm done with Gatorade and Powerade.  Instead, I tried a recipe I stumbled on, and tweaked it to my tastes.  Today I'm here to share with you Steve's Cat Piss Extract!

Steve's Cat Piss Extract (no felines needed):

The ingredients.

 1 Water Bottle - I use a 22oz Clean Bottle, which I love
2 1/2 Tbsp of brown sugar
1 pinch of salt
1 Tbsp of honey
1/4 tsp of lemon juice
1/4 tsp of lime juice

Combine solid and granular ingredients, including honey in bottle.  Add lemon and lime juice to suggested amounts, or to taste.  Hell, I don't know what you like.  Fill the rest of the bottle with either hot water or water directly from a pressure washer, as these tend to mix the goo you've just created.

Approximately one pinch of salt, I don't really measure things, and in fact guessed on half the things I just listed in the recipe.

If you've done everything correctly, you should get a mixture that looks somewhat like urine if you were really really sick.

Perfect!  Ready to hit the roads!

Depending on my ride length, I may up the concentration of the sugar, honey, and salt and add less water.  I find that as I go along, I'll switch between this and water, but if the concentration of the cat piss is too high, I'll water it down at fountains along the way.  It does however, make for a concentrated homemade "sports drink" that can last you 70 miles or more.  At least in my personal experience it does, and had made food stops much less of a thing for me.

I know it doesn't contain potassium, or other things that sports drinks advertise, but when you sweat, your body loses two things mainly.  Water and sodium.  Try not to go overboard on the salt, the pinch amount that I posted is good for a regular batch.  The last weekend ride I had, my black bicycling shorts were literally covered in dried up salt stains when I was done, which had me introduce just a little bit of salt to the mix.  Once again, adjust the recipe if you don't like the taste, it's all personal, but I find this to be the best mix of taste, calories, and sodium that I need for my long rides.  As always, your mileage may vary.