Buy Power Gels? Pshaw!

I just made my own power gel! I got the brown rice syrup in a store in Kensington ($8/litre...but he asked me not to tell anyone. I think he was just being a salesman though). I blended some raspberries, and put them through a sieve to get out the seeds. Then I heated the syrup, and added some raspberry puree, and some zone caps... I tried a small batch first to get the proportions right...and it's pretty good! And 1litre of syrup makes you a lot of actual sized gel packs! I think I'm going to try cocoa for the next batch I make. I still have around half a litre of syrup. Here are the proportions I used:

- 1/2 litre brown rice syrup
- small tray pureed raspberries
- 6 zone caps

These are not exactly to scale...i.e. I just tried it as I went along and added raspberry to taste.

This is WAY cheaper than buying some commercial gels! :-D

Now since I've been tasting gel for the last 30 minutes, I'm pretty wired! gonna go and ride!