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I'll tell you tomorrow, but for rides of 75 or so, I usually drink a bottle of gatorade per hour & at about the 2 hour mark I'll start snacking on Clif bars - usually 1 per hour and a half or so. I think I ate 4 on a recent 85 mile ride I did. Maybe some fig newtons along the way, although last time I brought those they were more like fig crumbles by the time I got to them.

I'm really not a gel fan but I do usually bring one or two on a long ride just in case, or some of those clif blocks.

I think eating some Actual Food at about the 60 mile mark (sandwich or something) is very productive for me too.

For rides of < 50 miles, I will eat one clif bar at the half way mark and that's it, so ramping up the mileage really makes a difference in the amount of food i have to eat.
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