Blue Beast also goes by Recovery & Performance. The Wellness Angels who bring it, our nurses and nurse practitioners, set it up wherever you are in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
The vitamins come first because you will recognize them. The blends follow, with every amino acid and mineral named. How people feel varies.
Step 01
Choose a day the plan leaves light, then send the address: home, the office on your first day back, or wherever the team is staying.
Step 02
Your Wellness Angel screens you individually before setting anything up. That health screening decides whether Blue Beast is appropriate for you today, and a visit may be declined based on it.
Step 03
After the IV goes in, your Wellness Angel pulls up a chair and stays put until the bag runs dry. It takes 30 to 60 minutes. Somewhere in the race photos is a shot of you mid-stride. Go find it.
Runners, riders and rec-league regulars, usually right after the thing they trained for.
The plan lives in a color-coded spreadsheet, and every Saturday cell says the same thing: long run. Blue Beast goes on the Sunday after, at home, feet up, with the foam roller within reach and the spreadsheet closed for once.
You picked up your bib on Friday and stood in a start corral colder than the forecast promised. After the finish, the hotel room is as far as you intend to go. The drip stand goes up by the window, and Blue Beast runs while you check your splits.
Pool play starts early, bracket games run into the evening, and Sunday looks much the same. If the team is sharing a rental or a block of hotel rooms, that is where the drips happen, for anyone on the roster who wants one.
Adult-league ice goes to whoever will take the late slot, which is how a Tuesday game starts at a quarter to eleven. By the time the gear bag is back in the trunk, it is Wednesday. That afternoon Blue Beast runs in the living room, and the pads air out on the porch.
Pure IV Hydration
Sterile saline, 500 ml or 1,000 ml, with no vitamins or blends added. The quiet choice when fluid is all you are after.
Book an AngelQuench
Vitamin C, B vitamins and a mineral blend, with the amino acids left out. For a sweltering August day spent outside.
Book an AngelReboot
B vitamins and minerals, booked after late celebrations. The Morning After contains ondansetron, a prescription anti-nausea medication, given only when a provider orders it.
Book an AngelNo. Nothing in the bag is tied to one sport, and the ingredients are the same whoever books it. Cyclists, swimmers, rowers and league teams have the same shape of weekend as runners: a long effort, then an easy day after it.
Vitamin C, and a mineral blend of magnesium, zinc, manganese and copper. Otherwise the two overlap: each carries a B-vitamin complex and the same amino acid blend. Blue Sky High Energy is $299 and Blue Beast is $329.
You can ask. Methylcobalamin B12 is one of the add-ons that can be mixed into a drip, along with Glutathione, Taurine and Zinc Sulfate. Add-ons and their prices are on the IV menu. Whether any of them belongs in your bag gets decided at the health screening on the day.
Yes. The health screening still happens one person at a time, before any drip goes in.
Call 911 if it is a medical emergency. Blue Sky IV provides scheduled, non-emergency wellness services. Our visits are not a substitute for emergency or primary medical care. Services are provided under physician supervision where required by applicable law.
Rest Day, Your Place
Pick a time. We'll show up. The address can be your home, a hotel room near the finish or the team's rental, anywhere in Chicago or its suburbs.
