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I'm curious as to how folks with young families fit in riding weeknights, most specifically around how do you fit in your tea and putting the little one to bed. I have a 19 month old who eats around 5ish and goes to bed at 7. If we are having tea its after he's gone to bed, so can be 8ish at times.
My normal practice is to skip tea and my wife is really supportive of me going out, I probably do this twice a week. I'll eat a bag of crisps in the pub after and snaffle a banana beforehand. However this evening I was thinking of going for a pootle after I'd eaten a proper tea, which will be around 8:30. I think the normal idea is you aren't supposed to exercise something like 2-3 hours after food, which would mean going out much later (which i'm not fussed by)
So do you just scavenge and go, and leave the real cooked meals to nights where you aren't riding?
Also...what's your go to pre ride food?
Cheers
Hi Benjii, yes this is difficult with kids this young. I don't get out on the bike as much as I should, but having kids has hindered my week riding.
My wife and I tried to make a point of eating when they do and (if possible) make them eat what you do. This makes meal preparation easier and clean up easier too. Then your free to ride straight from bed time with a gap after eating and some daylight too. We have a 5 and 22 month old. Now both eat with us. We bath and bed around 7:30 then if there are no jobs to do then I'll get an hour or so on the bike.
Hope that helps.
Mark.
Also have a nineteen month old, we all eat together at 6, then bed at seven so there's the potential to ride after that... thing is I'm normally too tired! While the 2-3hrs thing is true for max efforts I think 45mins - 1hr after eating is fine.