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Roam Energy Nut Butter

ome years ago I completed the Oxfam Trailwalker. The idea was to walk 100km through thick bushland as a group of four. No sleeping, just rest stops. It took us a gruelling 33 hours (and only two of us made it – long story…) but one of the things that kept us going was a brand of energy gel where you ripped open the sachet and squeezed this goo down your

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