Lessons/notes/tips for my own future reference:

4/13/12

1. Lucky to be on a home course, with recurring aid stations and crew. Should carry more on more isolated courses.
2. Reasons why solid food stopped working: May be inevitable. May be gorged/guzzled at aid stations without a steady intake in between. Should temper.
3. Used Gatorade for calories after solid stopped working. Should investigate optimal product.
4. Need a variety of flavors, even if some you don't like during training. Also variety of phases of matter (gel/liquid, blocks/solid), because candy consistency worked.
5. Gatorade again: Determine under what condition you will switch to gatorade (i.e. state of mind, mileage, time, etc.)
6. Keep a better stock of salt tabs/S-caps.
7. Correction: solid food, real food. The blocks did work; soup did not sound appeasing. Partially because it was warm, and I wasn't feel cold, but I think it was just savory, and dessert (chocolate) flavors did not sound good.
8. I had a cup (drank between 4 and 8 oz?) of ginger ale. May be that settled my stomach later?