>>>>>>>Researchers at Granada University in Spain have found that beer can help the body rehydrate better after a workout than water or Gatorade.
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>>>>Oddly, if I have a beer at lunchtime when cycling I end up feeling *more* dehydrated later than if I had stuck to water. Maybe it only works after I've stopped. More experimentation is obviously called for.
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>>>Any kind of alcohol dehydrates you. It is definitely not training fuel. Water is the best. It is as beneficial for hydrating as the sports drinks like Gatorade.
>>>I'm sure you know this but for those who have not done sports endurance events, keep that water flowing on a steady basis. If you wait until you're thirsty it's too late.
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>>One alcoholfree wheat beer between exercise sessions (with at least another liter of water) IMO is better - it usually has not even a fifteenth of alcohol% of normal beer, so alcohol does not really enter the equation if there is a break of ~120 min. One small beer sometimes helps if I am trainig late getting the pushed up body to sleep - as long as it stays single and I try to sleep within 90 minutes after training, skipping sauna and similar stuff - if in hotel drop into bed directly after shower or just drive home after shower and the one beer. Even after marathon races you see sometimes alcoholfree beer given after the race.
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>Not over here. It's all water, energy drinks, and fresh fruit at the finish line. A banana at the finish line of my first Chicago Marathon was probably the best food of my life.
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has been in practice for at least 20 years in some other sports less extreme on the "endurance" dimension than marathon running (personal memory) and seems to be not that untypical "common wisdom" today:
http://www.zeit.de/2012/35/Alkoholfreies-Bier-Geschmack-Brauverfahren/komplettansicht

has been really promoted for some years now at some marathons by one brewery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iObynfKQzVQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlPLNPY9Nw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJfN2tDw4dE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hthDXbkFw

and I think it is unsurprising that exactly that beer was used in the study not comparing beer to water but showing possible benefits as well as reasons: (Warning: Dunno how much test setup and/or statistics were tweaked)
http://www.aerztezeitung.de/medizin/krankheiten/atemwegskrankheiten/article/664578/alkoholfreies-bier-bringt-immunzellen-marathon-laeufern-trab.html
based on
http://www.bemagic-studie.de/

but other breweries sponsor as well:

http://www.bmw-frankfurt-marathon.com/de/newsletter/commerzbank-frankfurt-marathon-newsletter-082009-powered-by-new-tech-products.html
http://www.wohnunginfrankfurt.de/bmw-marathon-frankfurt-2012-bald-anmelden.html

for those not close to german beer brands: Clausthaler is an alcohol-free-only brand, probably the best known alc-free one over here, IMO drinkable but not the best tasting one, a sub-div of Radeberger, as such still producing in Frankfurt, so sponsoring at that event is no surprise, but there are other sponsors in Frankfurt as well:

http://www.spiridon-frankfurt.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134

I searched german sources to get results for german alcoholfree beer - so no wonder if the links need to be translated for english speakers...
I do realize that for you even such beer might be trouble and my post is targeted to the intellectual and sportsman side of you - pretty sure you don't misunderstand. Most of those have 0.3% to 0.45%, with regulation forcing breweries to stay below 0.5% for labeling as alchohol-free, but there is at least 1 product really alcoholfree beer at 0.0% (Bitburger 0.0).

alc-free beer and is nowadays accepted also by .... not really intellectual press:
http://www.bild.de/lifestyle/essen-trinken/test/18-alkoholfreie-biere-24997300.bild.html

and has been highlighted for runners:
http://www.runnersworld.de/ernaehrung/alkoholfreies-bier-im-test.137185.htm
http://www.runnersworld.de/ernaehrung/alkoholfreies-bier-im-laeufer-test.273973.htm#1


>I have vague plans of running at least one 10K in the fall. My knees probably can't take another marathon but I think I can do a 10K with proper training and nutrition.

Wise to take aging body into account... try out other stuff, not for competition, but giving your body different kicks.

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