TORQ-Fuelled Joe skipper did the extraordinary this weekend. 

Wishing you a very Happy Halloween and offering you some ‘spooktacular’ offers on selected TORQ products. 

We take to social media this evening to advertise our faux new TORQ Energy Bar, the Brexit Bar. 

Nestled between the infamous Col du Tourmalet and Col de Peyresourde in the beautiful Hautes-Pyrénées, the Col d’Aspin has a long and illustrious history with the Tour de France, first featuring in the race as part of the inaugural mountain stage (a mere 326km from Luchon to Bayonne dubbed the Circle of Death) in 1910. 

Many 24 hour events offer a popular ‘Team’ category whereby you can club together with other like-minded individuals and share the 24-hour load between you in a relay type arrangement. 

There are a few additional supplements that we’d like to mention here to help you on your way to ultra-endurance success. 

Do you know what? We could advise you to consume a recovery drink within 15 minutes of finishing the event and you may feel better for it for the rest of the day, but at the same time there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to recovery from such an epic effort. 

We’ve discussed the fundamentals in the previous section, but let’s look at this real life example and what we’ve suggested Mark should actually do for this race. 

Now there are two ways of looking at this. 

Preparing nutritionally for the big day starts around 24 hours prior to the beginning of the race. 

There are some simple processes to consider in the recovery process. 

Fuelling your training and life in general outside of ‘race day’ involves following some very simple fundamental steps with your general nutrition.