Wee Question About Hydration

When I ski I don't get thirsty at all. I have a job to remind myself to drink water from the plastic bottle I carry in my back pack. At the end of the Day I realise, by the colour of, well, you know, that I should have been drinking more.
Any insight or handy hints?

Bottle of water with the lunchtime red! Job done!! :thumbup:

Why not get a rucksack that has a hydration pack built in so you have a tube to take water whenever you want, pretty easy when you are on a lift. Failing that just buy a bladder and put in your existing rucksack.

However, you will need an insulation sleeve to go over the tube to stop it freezing and you can get neoprene sleeves off ebay, I paid £1.99 for mine,instead of buying the camelback tube for £20.

YOu can also get drinking tubes that fit ordinary bottles as well, but again you will need to insulate the tubes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Desert-0936-SmarTube-Hydration/dp/B000GM6LWS/ref=pd_sim_sbs_d_4/280-2525329-3001733

I use a Tog24 hydration pack, they are good. Enough space for 2 litres of water and also a fleece, hat, chocolate bar. I have never had the bladder freeze and dont have an insulated tube - just drain it back to the bladder after use.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hydration-Ergonomic-Cycling-Running-Sports/dp/B009GH9JBO/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_2

I've use a Camelbak Snoblast rucksack / bladder. Insulated feed tube and a little pocket to put the bite valve in to stop it freezing. Brilliant day bag with the added bonus of a hydration pack.

Possibly interesting article on hydration on the BBC today....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24464774

OldAndy wrote:Possibly interesting article on hydration on the BBC today....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24464774

Just what I always thought. Marketing!!!!!!

How much should you drink depends on how much you lose through sweating and insensible loss through breathing.
Measuring your weight before and after exercise gives a clue - 1L of water weighs 1Kg and only a small amount of weight loss will be fat/food.

Altitude, temperature and level of exertion are factors that affect this for the individual. Some will seat buckets others relativley little.

Another clue can come from the urine - if it's straw coloured it's likely to be dilute enough. If it looks like water you are probably offloading excess fluid and if it's dark it implies it's concentrated (but may also be influenced by chemicals that can pass through and colour the urine so can't be an absolute yardstick)

If you seem to be urinating as much and as often as when at home you are probably drinking enough.

For many skiing is relatively hard physical work but not for all and is generally sustained over a day unlike most sporting activity, gym session or training run.

Remember there is a multi-million Pound market in rehydration liquids that are of limited benefit and most have no scientific evidence to support the claims for their product.