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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.

*Our "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. We drink this mix slowly (hence the name, "four hour bottle") and drink plain water at the same time (about one bottle an hour).

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.

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!

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!

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 head 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.

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.

The Stick

The Stick is a revolutionary device used to segmentally compress and stretch muscle. It is highly effective in the treatment of muscle pain and trigger points, including by us! We make The Stick available for use all checkpoints and the finish line of our cycling events and camps. Website.

The Stick provides the following benefits
• Prevents and predicts muscle injuries
• Dramatically improves strength, flexibility and enduranc
• Rapidly prepares muscles for physical activity
• Disperses the effects of lactic acid following activity
• Accelerates muscle recovery

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 PB Elite Molded Foam Rollers 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 begin. 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!