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Happy Friday to you! This is fantasy football draft Friday, which is like a combo of the 4th of July and Thanksgiving. My co-workers and I are pretty excited. I’m going to be one co-worker short though, as my great friend and now running buddy Lil’ Code is moving on to bigger things. I’ve been mean to him all week. It’s how I cope.
Facts about me…Things that I hate:
- Black Olives (any olives really)
- Pickles
- Coconut
It’s mostly the texture of coconut that I hate, but the taste doesn’t do it for me either. I could maybe drink a Pina Colada if that was the ONLY drink available. Malibu Rum? Gross. If you’ve ever seen Zombieland, Woody Harrelson’s character goes on a great rant about why coconut is not good.
This post is about my review of a product that I was extremely excited to try out, mostly because I’ve been looking for something with the health benefits of a coconut without the horrible other parts of a coconut. Detach to the rescue!
I tried Ellie-Ade, a naturally flavored lemon-lime. The flavor wasn’t overwhelming, but it was good. Like many runners, my tummy doesn’t want anything too strong of flavorful. We don’t want to do anything to encourage unplanned pit stops, right?
The bottle uses the term “Pre-Activity Nutrition” to describe Detach, but I could see it working both ways (pre AND post). I also drank it after some tough workouts and it seemed to perk me up a little from the summer beatdown. On my long run day, I was smart enough to freeze one and then by the time my run was over is was slushy. NOTHING BEATS THAT.
All in all, I think this is a great drink. It was easy on the taste buds, easy on the stomach and it’s easy on the wallet. Does it improve performance? I don’t know. It certainly won’t hurt. 🙂
Use this link to get a case of 12 bottles for just the price of shipping! I honestly just bought a case.
That stinks that Cody is leaving you! It’s always a bummer when friends/great coworkers have to leave.
Olives, pickles (!), and coconut are AWESOME, you weirdo! Wanna hear something funny though? I love coconut but can’t handle coconut water/drinks unless they are mixed into something. It almost makes me think of loving bananas but hating banana flavored things. I also hate Malibu rum but would drink it in a pinch. Thinking of drinking that straight up makes me wanna yuke. I think I just may have a little bit…
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I’m with you on banana flavored things! Banana Runts are the WORST. I used to eat every other Runt and leave those for my mom.
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ME TOO!! That’s too funny 🙂
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The banana ones were my dad’s favorite so I always picked them out for him to eat – too funny!
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Oooo I have never heard of this product before but would love to try it out!!! Looks great. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for reading! I love providing info on anything that I can, but preferably SHOES. 😀
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haha of course!
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I don’t like olives or pickles either! I do like coconut, but I would agree that it wasn’t overwhelming in Detach. I liked it and also ordered a case! 🙂
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Runners are drinking pickle juice now. 🤢
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I know!! We had it at an aid station I worked for a 50K … and people LOVE it!! I have not yet tried it, since I don’t like pickles. I can’t imagine it would go down well for me!
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I’d have to be pretty desperate.
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