How Orbana Healthy Energy Drink helped get Eddie Izzard through his 1,100-mile run

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov 11, 2009 -
How does a 47-year old comedian, with only five weeks of training, make it through 27 miles a day, six days a week, for seven continuous weeks? With a lot of tenacity. And a little help from Bruce Tulloh and Orbana. Last September, Eddie Izzard succeeded in raising £150,000 for the charity Sport Relief, a biennial charity event sponsored by Comic Relief and BBC Sport, by covering more than 1,110 miles of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Throughout the challenging run, Izzard was accompanied by several running partners, one of whom was ex 5000 meter European Champion and British Olympian, Bruce Tulloh. Bruce ran with Eddie throughout Stonehenge and was happy to share plenty of running tips to get Eddie through the rest of his run. One thing that Eddie found particularly helpful was Bruce’s introduction to Orbana Healthy Energy Drink. Since its inception, Bruce has been a Brand Ambassador for Orbana, as he views it as the healthiest way sustain high energy levels and improve running performance. Bruce has commented, "I've been in top class sport as an athlete and a coach for fifty years and I would not be involved with Orbana Healthy Energy if I did not believe that it works. I take Orbana for a dose of energy before long runs, and I also take it afterwards as it keeps me full of energy for the rest of the day. It really improves the performance of the runners I coach as well. It goes down easily and keeps them going smoothly, with no crash at all."  

One of the reasons why Bruce excitedly identifies himself as an ‘Orbanista’ is because he, along with many professional and amateur athletes, believes in Orbana’s ethos that once health is optimised, so too are energy levels and muscle outputs. Orbana builds a foundation for good health and performance by packing in a generous amount of nutrients, whereas most energy drinks do the opposite by adding caffeine, artificial colours, sweeteners and preservatives (none of which are in Orbana). What also makes Orbana different from other sport and energy drinks is that it combines a special mixture of complex carbohydrates with a strategically chosen group of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and electrolytes, which delay fatigue for up to two hours—all without the spike and crash. The team at Orbana is thrilled that a legendary runner like Bruce not only drinks it himself, but also recommends it to the runners he helps and coaches, including Eddie Izzard.

To learn more about Orbana Healthy Energy Drink, go to http://www.orbana.com/index.html and to see what other athletes, including Bruce, have said about Orbana, go to http://www.orbana.com/people.html