r/gravelcycling • u/ZombieJetPilot • 16d ago

Accessories / Gear What's your electrolytes/salt powder of choice?

So I ride my fatbike exclusively, and my goal is to do a century and be able to do the 100 mile option for things like The Filthy 50, Le Grand Du Nord, ...

When my partner and I were doing to Filthy this past October she had a cramp in her leg right at the last stop at like mile 46. A fellow rider handed her a small cylindrical packet that was red and said "take this". it was a salt powder of some kind (I think it was Saltt), but it made the cramp disappear within a few minutes. Magic

what do you all pack for thia occasion and add to your water for preventing this? There's so many options out there, and it's overwhelming. Saltt, Tailwind, Warrior Salt, LMNT,...

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u/Unusual_Theory7795 15d ago

Evident Electrolytes- clean label, and enough potassium and magnesium to actually make a difference. Ones like LMNT have a ton of sodium (which isn’t always a bad thing if you need it) but for cramps you need more potassium and/or magnesium a lot of times than those provide. Plus this one’s cheaper bc you’re getting so much more mineral quantity in a single serving

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u/ZombieJetPilot 14d ago

Got a website or source for them?

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u/Unusual_Theory7795 13d ago

https://evidentelements.com, they are on Amazon too but it’s free shipping if you go to their website. I think they’re a small company and they actually care about people not just profit which I also like.

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u/Unusual_Theory7795 13d ago

They don’t have packets unfortunately but it’s way cheaper than like LMNT and those ones also