This article will cover conversations from different runners and their experiences on Mixing & Storing Powder. This is great stuff everyone! Thanks!
Special thanks to Kevin Sayers and all the people who contributed!
Experience From: Chip Marz, Randi Young, Jay Hodde, Gordon Chace, Mak Sorrells, Tom Andrews, Mike Farris, Vida, Karl King, Dale Perry, Matt Kavanaugh, Brick Robbins.
COMMENT: A number of these posts talk about mixing SUCCEED! CLIP. It should be noted that clip now comes in individually sized packages for mixing directly into water bottles.
Mike Farris
For those who have never used it, CLIP is more like flour than sugary drinks (Gator-whiz etc.) and thus is harder to pour.
I put dry Clip in snack-size ziplocks (about half the size of a sandwich bag). If I needed to mix it myself during a race, I'd whip out my little Spyderco knife, cut the corner off the bag leaving about a 1" diameter hole, and stuff it into the bottle (I use UD bottles). Smaller bottle openings would be a problem. The knife has a semi-serrated edge which tears the bags without much fuss.
Don't use these small bags if you want to pour the dry mix out normally, it doesn't work as well as with a sandwich size ziplock.
Gordon Chace #2
For those who haven't yet tried Succeed(*) CLIP, it has a texture somewhat like Metabolol Endurance, ie, the powder slightly tends to stick to itself, unlike dry powders such as Cytomax or the Ultra/Amino variants of Succeed. So for mixing CLIP or Met-E during a run, wider mouths on both the water bottle and the powder container become important. I got some old medicine jars from a relative, these are very nearly as wide as an Ultimate water bottle, they hold an entire suggested dosage of 3 to 4 scoops, and I can stick the medicine jar right in the water bottle and be sure that no powder blows away.
Another tidbit, I've verified both from Karl and then in my own usage, that all three of his drink powders can dissolve at twice the nominal concentration. I've done this in road&track races with laps short enough that I could take turns sipping mouthfuls of high-strength drink at my private aid station, alternating with Dixie cups of plain water at the public aid station. Since the Succeed was twice as strong, I only had to blend up new stuff half as frequently. The same idea might be useful in trail running. In fact, it occurs to me that when carrying dual bottles, to double one bottle's mixture and keep the other as plain water, allows for emergency rinsing of skin wounds.
