The Lucozade Sports Scientist attended parkrun Leeds on 27th February. Unfortunately, I was using the parkrun as the middle section of my long run for the week so didn’t have time to stop and seek advice on nutrition and hydration (and blag a few freebies). Liz volunteered to stop by at the Lucozade stall when she finished her run.
Imagine my surprise when I got up from my post-run kip to find a veritable treasure trove of goodies all kindly supplied by Lucozade to assist me with my training. I speculated that Liz must have taken along a full range of cunning disguises and practiced a variety of regional accents in order to have scavenged such a hoard. But no, she’d just explained where I was with my training, what I was intending to do and the Lucozade lady had been very accommodating. I guess the different approach must be a male/female thing. Liz has definitely got the job at future events.
In my defence, I will actually purchase Lucozade products (when I’ve used up the freebies) as part of my training. Having been daft enough to go out on a long run without proper hydration last week I’m planning to take proper measures in future.
Seems an awful long time since Barnesy told us that, “Isotonic means it’s in balance with your body fluids”. What on earth does that mean? Mind you I spent many a happy hour trying to boot a tin can into a waste bin like Barnsey did in the ad. Seems even longer since Lucozade was something your mum brought you on the (very rare) occasions you’d persuaded her you were too ill for school. It certainly is a world in motion.
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