AdventureCORPS Recommended Products and Services


	AdventureCORPS Recommended Products and Services Also check out the AdventureCORPS Community: Organizations we Endorse and Promote! Hammer Nutrition We highly recommend the fueling, hydration, and supplement products from Hammer Nutrition - as well as their endurance sports knowledge available through their website and magazine, Endurance News. (All of the recent Endurance News magazines, with articles by Chris Kostman in each issue, are available for download here.) For CORPScamp or any endurance event or workout, prepare yourself a "four hour bottle"* of Perpetuem, Sustained Energy, and/or HEED each day, bring along a flask of Hammer Gel and a container of Endurolytes and Anti-Fatigue Caps, and all you'll need is more water as your day unfolds out there. It's a simple but extremely effective way to sustain yourself for long hours or days in the saddle. My "four hour bottle" includes four scoops of Perpetuem and four scoops of HEED. This provides 920 extremely tasty calories, including 24 grams of protein, eight grams of fat, a nice selection of electrolytes and more, not to mention lots of great, long-lasting carbo energy. I drink this mix slowly (hence the name, "four hour bottle") and drink plain water at the same time (about one bottle an hour). PB Elite Molded Foam Rollers Those of you who have attended one of our CORPScamps may have "enjoyed" rollling around on a black foam roller before or after a CORPSyoga class in order to target specific tight areas in the legs, hips, back, and such. Here are other Benefits and Uses: • Use round rollers for stability exercises and myofascial release and alignment and half round rollers for balance and stabilization • Improves alignment and hip mobility while increasing core flexibility. • Also can be used for Pilates, Yoga, Massage Therapy, and Physical Therapy Order from PerformBetter.com. Ron Jones Dynamic Warm-UP DVD Each morning of CORPScamp - and before every ride, run, or workout in our daily life - we do a five minute off-the-bike "Ron Jones' Dynamic Warm-Up", before we depart on the ride. This routine of ten movements, done for ten repetitions each, is is done while standing, so no towels or props are needed. It's a great way to warm up the body by moving through essentially every plane, and range, of motion through which the human body can move. This allows for safer, more productive, and more efficient cycling and human movement in general. The creator of the Dynamic Warm-Up is a Furnace Creek 508 Hall of Famer with an MS in kinesiology. He's one of the smartest people we know, and, as a two-time Team RAAM and multiple Furnace Creek 508 4x team champion, is one of the best athletes in endurance sports. His website is also an incredible treasure trove of original health and fitness information. Be sure to sign up for his email newsletter, too! Moeben Sport Sleeves Moeben Sleeves, the UV-protecting arm sleeves for the outdoor enthusiast, were created by Badwater Ultramarathon veteran Shannon Farar-Griefer. The Moeben Sleeve provides comfort and protection from the outdoor environment and its constant change, while it helps protect wearers from the sun's harmful rays. Moeben Sleeves will keep you warm when it's cold, since the sleeve fits like a second skin, and will keep you cool when it's hot with it's light fabric to keep the hot sun off of your skin. Personally, we take them everywhere we go. If we're cycling, whether it's hot or cold, we wear them. We take them hiking. We keep a pair stuffed in all our bags and in our cars. Moeben sleeves are an important part of our active life and they should be for yours, too! Visit the Moeben website. Order them from ZombieRunner.com Ritchey Break-Away Bicycles The Ritchey Break-Away is a no-compromise, world-class bicycle which also breaks in half to travel in a relatively small suitcase for ease of travel (no more big bike boxes to lug around and to try to stash into taxis and closets) and, nearly always, at no extra charge when being checked as luggage on airplanes. AdventureCORPS founder Chris Kostman purchased his Break-Away in 2004 as a travel bike, but its incredible ride qualities and stylish appearance were so alluring that it immediately became practically the only bicycle he ever rides, whether traveling or not. Chris rides the steel road version, while Elizabeth has the titanium/carbon road model. We are now pleased to offer Ritchey Break-Away bicycles - road, cross, mountain, and single-speed - for sale as AdventureCORPS is an Authorized Ritchey Dealer. Contact us if you are interested. More info. Visit the Ritchey website. Earth, Wind, and Rider Wool Jerseys Wool rules as the ultimate material for cycling jerseys and all other endurance sports clothing. How can that be? Wool is warm in winter and cool in summer because of its hydrophilic ability to wick away excess moisture. In the winter, wool removes moisture from the skin to keep the wearer feeling warm and dry and wool's insulating qualitieis trap dry air and warmth near the skin. This is unlike synthetic fleece, which is warm but does not breathe easily. Wool's natural insulating quality and its ability to shed water results in a fabric that keeps the body warm even when it is raining. In the summer, wool fiber's coil-like shape pulls excess heat and moisture from your skin, helping you stay cooler. And besides all that, wool is a renewable resource, plus the Earth, Wind & Rider jerseys look great! Read more about wool's amazing properties here. Visit the EW&R website here. (Stay tuned for a new EW&R AdventureCORPS jersey!) ZombieRunner.com (not just for runners!) Our friends at ZombieRunner, Don and Gillian, are both veteran finishers of the Badwater Ultramarathon and have been sponsors of that event for several years now. They run an absolutely AMAZING online store. Shop ZombieRunner.com and you will find the best stuff for ultra runners, marathoners, trail runners, adventure racers, hikers and other people who love the outdoors. (You'll also find Official Badwater Gear.) Heck, even if you never run or hike, you will still find a lot of great, useful, and unique stuff on their site! Click on over now! RoadID: the Best Safety Lighting, Reflective Gear, and I.D. for Cycling, Running, and all Outdoor Sports The Firefly Supernova by RoadID.com is the brightest, smallest and most durable safety light of its kind. You'll be amazed that a light this powerful fits in a package this small. Attach the lightweight Supernova to your seat pack or bicycle frame for cycling or your waistband, jacket, shirt collar or hat for running and you'll alert motorists of your presence up to a mile away! The intensity of this safety light will blow your mind. When you click over to their site to order one, be sure to order an I.D. or two, also! RedOxx Duffle Bags, Gadget Bags, and Luggage* Hand-made in Montana from American materials by a team trained by former military parachute riggers, the bags made by RedOxx are the ultimate bags for carrying anything and everything of importance in one's life. Admittedly, I'm a bag nut, so I can tell you with absolute assurance that there is no finer, nore more durable, baggage line out there. Personally (and I kid you not), my RedOxx arsenal includes ten different models of increasing size, all in the same color scheme, Safari Two-Tone: from Lil Roy (my "man purse") to Tri-Fold Shave Kit (holds ALL my bathroom needs, even a host of Kiehl's skin care product) to Gator Bag (electronics and gadget bag) to Metro Briefcase (home for my MacBook whenever I hed out the door) to Safari Beanos PR4 (gym bag, camera bag) to Safari Beanos PR5 (maximum legal carry-on duffle) to Safari Beanos PR5.5 (swallows A LOT of gear) to Airborne Ruck Sack (bomb-proof backpack big enough as a single bag for a weekend get-away) to Air Boss (pictured above, which, I swear, holds three times what it should and keeps my clothes wrinkle-free at the same time) to Gypsy Suit Cover (when I gotta take my tux along). When we head off to host an event, or on a road trip, sometimes the whole ten bags get loaded up - nirvana for a bag nut! Website. Bike Shops Mill Valley Cycle Works in Marin County, just north of San Francisco. Website. Velo Culture in San Diego. Website. Books and Magazines We highly recommend this fascinating book, The Athlete's Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss, by Christopher Bergland, a 2003-2005 Badwater Ultramarathon entrant. The Athlete's Way presents a practical, motivational fitness program by an ultra-endurance athlete that incorporates brain science, positive psychology and behaviorism to transform lives from the inside out. It is the antidote to the imbalances created by living a sedentary, inactive existence. Christopher Bergland, the son of a neurosurgeon, has created a program that uses neurobiology and behavioral models to help improve life through exercise. The Athlete's Way program, focusing on cardio, strength, stretching, nutrition and sleep, uses neurobiology and behavioral models to enable you to think, train and behave like an athlete, making you more optimistic, resilient, and intense. You will want to get a glow on every day to increase your daily bliss quotient. Exercise will no longer be something to dread but something to enjoy and experience to the fullest. The Athlete's Way teaches you how to make exercise a source of joy and something you will want to engage in daily. Sweat will become a symbol of your striving for a standard of excellence and a solid work ethic that is synonymous with peak performance. The stamina, tenacity, and drive fortified through athletics - and this program - can be applied to any dream, obstacle, or goal you aspire to achieve. Order here. Info here. There's just one magazine out there which is a Must Read for everyone who runs, especially those who like to run 26.2 miles or further. It's edited by one of the founders of the Badwater Ultramarathon, Richard Benyo, who is also a Badwater Hall of Fame member. *Marathon & Beyond* is published in a book format and features timeless stories and insights from the best running writers and pundits. Richard and his partner, Jan Seeley, the publisher, also have a semi-official annual tradition of featuring the Badwater Ultramarathon or a Badwater athlete in their July issue. They've even published some of my articles! Most importantly, the M&B staff are rock solid fans and supporters of the Badwater Ultramarathon and of the sport in general. The magazine is quality, through and through, and my copies NEVER head for the recycling pile like most other running magazines. Every issue is a real keeper! Check out M&B here and get a subscription. The coolest and most enlightening cycling magazine on the planet is *Bicycle Quarterly,* published in Seattle, WA by legendary endurance cyclist Jan Heine. Bicycle Quarterly is a magazine about the enjoyment of the sport we love. In Bicycle Quarterly, you find professionally written articles which include full tests of today's best bikes, rides off the beaten path, beautiful classic bikes made by old and new masters, technical issues that are relevant to everyday riding, expert advice on long-distance riding, cycling history, a forum for framebuilders, and much more. Info here. Check out our Amazon Store for other books we recommend!