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On the actual ride itself, ie excluding breakfast, I ate
coffee
scone and jam
two cheese ham and picked onion sandwiches
2 chocolate pancakes
honey roast cashews/peanuts
jelly babies
toasted pitta bread
Baton de Berger Salami
tin of Soup
Squeezy fruit purees
1 litre Apple Juice
1 litre grape juice
4 cans of Pepsi
1 can of Irn Bru
8 bananas
Packet of fig rolls
2 Ambrosia rice pudding
couple of slices of smoked ham
packet of wine gums
lots of water
oh and a boiled egg
And even at the end of it my stomach felt pretty good.
Someone else's recommendation on the same route was 1/2 a ham sandwich every quarter of the route and an energy gel every half hour. I took some energy gels with me but even the thought of eating one made my stomach squirm in anguish. How the heck do people survive on so little food? It's just great sitting down during a ride and eating some nice savoury food with a bit of a kick and some flavour. Can't be doing with all that sugary cycle fuel.
Can't be doing with all that sugary cycle fuel.
Your intake looks pretty sugary from where I am sitting.
did you carry all of that? how far were you riding? It's about 3 days riding food for me!
Your intake looks pretty sugary from where I am sitting.
True, you're right enough. But slightly less artificial and revolting that energy gels and stuff. Irn Bru and coke excluded of course.
Didn't carry very much of it at all luckily. A mate was driving the van and we met up at various stages along the Way
how far was the way to get through all of that?
8 bananas
What are you, a chimp? 🙂
I'm also interested in how long this ride was!
A fair bit of Carb's a shit load of Sugar (both fruit and refined), some Fat, protein etc...
How far/long were you riding OP?
That's about 7500 calories... do you need to speak to someone?
Thursday I rode the Tour Stage on
Three weetabix, two slices of toast and a banana for breakfast.
Two energy bars, a piece of flapjack, a gel and another banana.
And a fine hand-made pasty after 92 miles. 😀
Drink: one coffee, two bottles of Nuun cola and one of green tea.
How on earth did you manage to 1) carry and 2) eat all that? I normally bring that back from the supermarket on the shopping bike, but I don't eat it on the way back 😉
Yeah, reminded me as my Strava July Gran Fondo jersey arrived today, 135km 2x750ml Torqe drink, 3 bananas, a danish pastry and a couple of Mars bars (last edible thing in the shop)
eating some nice savoury food with a bit of a kick and some flavour
Certainly can't argue with that point. Pasty-power! Just not those soggy Ginsters. Nicely shredded veg and meat make swallowing much easier. Some of those energy bars cloy in the mouth and throat, particularly when tired. Bananas have no such problem, either.
As an aside, I led a beginners ride one saturday for the club. Chap gets going and five miles down the road is suffering stomach cramps. His breakfast was about four times what I listed above. "Didn't want to run out of fuel" was his comment in the layby trying not to wretch. This was for a 60 km steady ride with a cafe stop half way. Little and often...
On Saturday I did 236 miles on a bowl of porridge, a blt, a bacon butty, a couple of cups of coffee, a pack of Sainsburys mini flapjacks, a bunch of gels and about 4 x 750 High 5 energy drink. Doubt we would have found the time to eat that between four of us let alone just one of us!
How far/long were you riding OP?
96 miles, 17.5 hours. Although strictly speaking I walked at least 10km of it, probably more.
Fulfilled a long ambition to do the West Highland Way, and it was absolutely chuffin brilliant.
So much more fun than the various long[ish] road rides I've done. Very little worrying about the huge distance to go. Just enjoying the brilliant biking, amazing weather and views etc.
Until Devils staircase where it did all start to become a bit of a chore, but even 90km into it on the descent from Tyndrum to BoO I was whooping and yelling just because it was so good.
Really really enjoyed it.
And enjoyed the various picnic stops, don't usually stop for food on a cycle ride, but this time I had to.
96 miles
I couldn't do that without doing the 4 miles to make it a century, you could have had another banana or maybe a wafer thin mint!
I did s ToB ton on Wednesday, one ham sarnie, one huge piece if bread pud, a flap Jack, two mugs of tea & a pint. It was very flat course though so no where near the energy you must have burned
I couldn't do that
FTFY 😉
Not on a flippin SS that's for sure!
did 36 ish once locally - HURT a lot
Never done 100 off road but have on the road - could do one still if asked
I find if the final 30 miles is fuelled by beer the pain goes away
But you've all forgotten the most important question -
What flavour was the soup?
😉
Junkyard...
8 'Deglas at least 🙂
Though probably significantly less if you factor in the boredom threshold.
96 miles, 17.5 hours
Fair play, a shade under 5.5 mph Avg, but I'm guessing the the picnic's must have accounted for 40~50% of the time taken?
Either way it sounds like you scoffed about double the calories you actually burned, Seriously Dude I'd start worrying about the diabetes if I were you...
Can't be doing with all that sugary cycle fuel.
I beg to differ:
scone and jam
2 chocolate pancakes
jelly babies
Squeezy fruit purees
1 litre Apple Juice
1 litre grape juice
4 cans of Pepsi
1 can of Irn Bru
8 bananas
Packet of fig rolls
2 Ambrosia rice pudding
packet of wine gums
You had way more sugar than they did. WAY more (and more than that, as bread and ham also contain sugar). So, not really sure what you point is, except that you haven't found an energy gel that you like the flavour of?
but I'm guessing the the picnic's must have accounted for 40~50% of the time taken?
Bejesus. If you can do the West Highland Way in 9 hours then I doff my cap at you sir. Chateau.
I think I was stopped for about 2.25 hours or thereabouts.
M360: So, not really sure what you point is, except that you haven't found an energy gel that you like the flavour of?
That was my point really, I'm amazed that people can eat enough Energy Gels to keep them going for long days out. Can't stomach them.
Seriously Dude I'd start worrying about the diabetes if I were you...
Eek, whaddaya mean. Is being a horribly inefficient converter of chemical energy to potential enegy a sign of Diabetes? I've always eaten shed loads but didn't think it was more serious than that...
I think the sentiment is that it can be hard to estimate necessary caloric input. I'm probably on the low end, and only notice the effects after - I really DID need that pasty, but could have finished without. Roughly it's 30 cals per mile for flat tempo riding. More for ups and downs. Adjust by bodyweight, but now by too much - unless you really are a 140 kilo gorilla!
You had a great day out, burned lots of calories, but probably about 2/3 of what you ate. So you could have ridden back too 🙂
FWIW, I don't care for energy bars, use gels for racing and emergencies, but do like savoury food when riding.
So you could have ridden back too
Yup , sadly the batteries in my lights were flat after 6 hours use and the bike shop was shut. As were the pubs and takeaways as well. Only the hospital and night clubs were open at 3am.
😯