Ross Farrell – MTB

To me, food is an important lifestyle choice, an integral part of health and vitality. I love eating good food and avoid highly processed artificial rubbish like the plague. When it comes to bike racing I know I’m stuck with my genetic makeup, but I can change my diet to help attain the limits of that potential. What you eat before, during and after racing matters!

Hammer Products do not contain simple sugars so they are easy to consume hour after hour as you don’t have that sickly sweetness commonly found in other products. Perpetuem even contains some fat, most other companies would shy away from using fat (that great taboo) even if it was a healthy fat that will benefit your performance. I like Hammer Nutrition products because they provide high quality rounded nutrition products that are good for you, both in the short and in the long term. Hammer Nutrition also provides a wealth of knowledge on training and nutrition based on years of experience backed by sound science.  There is no pretence of a magical solution, but combined with hard work, Hammer Products will provide you with high quality practical nutrition to train, recover and race to your maximum potential.

Following a number of botched nutritional strategies that found me crawling to the end of a few Mtb marathons dazed and confused, I happened upon Hammer Nutrition products and have never looked back. For multi-stage and marathon races I use a multi-hr bottle of Perpetuem, supplemented with Endurolytes as conditions dictate, and use Recoverite for immediate post race recovery. During La Ruta de Los Conquistadores – the notorious multi-day mtb that traverses the jungles, volcanoes, mountains, rivers (and railway bridges…) of Costa Rica, some poor planning found me without Hammer Products for the first stage. Enter the worst day of my life on a bike, ever… Cramping from the 40km mark on a 110km mtb stage with over 3500m of climbing, I was sure a DNF was on the cards, my race over before it had properly begun. Somehow I crawled to the finish line. Whilst hobbling around the finish zone of day one, in a state of absolute desperation, a bleary eyed scan of the stalls revealed an oasis in the desert – Hammer Nutrition Perpetuem and Endurolytes. OK, now I knew I could at least survive another day. With the nutrition & cramping now taken care of, my legs slowly awoke from their painful slumber and I ended up winning the non-UCI category, finishing a respectable 15^th on the final stage – given how my race started that was quite the turn around – thanks Hammer!

1. What are your sporting aspirations?

Personal challenge, growth & adventure.

2. Who is your sporting hero?

Ayrton Senna

3. What is your favourite race? Why?

La Ruta De Los Conquistadores in Costa Rica, because its so hard & pushes you to the limits, both mentally & physically.

4. What is your greatest sporting achievement?

Finishing La Ruta! (& winning my category).

5. What Hammer Nutrition products do you use?

Perpetuem, Endurolytes, Recoverite, Heed.

6. Why do you Hammer Nutrition?

Hammer Products do not contain simple sugars so they are easy to consume hour after hour, as you don’t have that sickly sweetness commonly found in other products. Perpetuem even contains some fat; most other companies would shy away from using fat (that great taboo) even if it was a healthy fat that will benefit your performance. I like Hammer Nutrition products because they provide high quality rounded nutrition products that are good for you, both in the short and in the long term. Hammer Nutrition also provides a wealth of knowledge on training and nutrition, based on years of experience backed by sound science.  There is no pretence of a magical solution, but combined with hard work, Hammer Products will provide you with high quality practical nutrition to train recover and race to your maximum potential.

7. Favourite Quote:

“Keep one eye on reality but never lose sight of the dream…”