Originally Posted by
Drince88
When I've trained/done 1/2 marathons before, I used the sports beans as my fuel of choice. The big thing for me in liking them was that the guidance said to take a package every hour (or whatever it was) and to prevent sugar highs/crashes, I would spread the package over that whole time period. Easy to do with sports beans. A bit harder to do with gu or those sorts of things, since proportioning it out evenly is difficult, as is putting a partly consumed pack of gu in a pocket!
Unfortunately, I now have braces, and the sticky sports beans just aren't going to work for me this time around. I really don't want to go the gu route, because that'll be harder to portion out (and store between portions!)