You did not run out of water. You started without it.

Your body is bad at telling you when to drink. People drink less than they lose. Even with water sitting right there.

Thirst is a late signal. By the time you feel it, you are behind.

The aisle has this wrong

Every tub on the shelf sells the same idea. You lose a lot of salt, so take a lot of salt. We went and checked it. It does not hold up.

Extra salt did not change who got sick. It did not change who cramped. There was no real gap between the people who took it and the people who did not.

What does work is timing

Drink something salty the night before. Then again that morning. You start the day even instead of digging out of a hole for two hours.

That is the one thing here with real support behind it. It is also the thing almost nobody makes a product for, because the whole aisle is built for during the day, not before it.

So that is what we built

One stick the night before. One on the morning of. That is the entire protocol, and it is why this is 20 sticks and not a tub you scoop from mid-race.

And why citrate, not table salt

Table salt is sodium chloride. Ours is sodium citrate. One molecule of sodium citrate carries three sodium ions, so it delivers the same sodium in fewer dissolved particles.

That is chemistry, not a promise about your race. It is why we pay more for it, and it is the same reason the potassium is citrate and the magnesium is glycinate.

One thing worth knowing if your bottle is currently just water. Plain water all day carries its own risk: at one 100 mile mountain race, 1 in 5 finishers had low blood sodium afterwards. We are telling you the number. We are not saying we prevent it.