Originally Posted by
Bearhawker
My last multi-day trip was around the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton. 3 days, 300km, ~4100m of climbing total (2000-ish meters on day 2)
My Wahoo Roam claims I burned north of 5000 calories a day. Likely so.
I rode each day' ~100km fasted. Only ate supper and couldn't get more than a can of spam down.. maybe a couple of hard boiled eggs the 1st night. Roughly 1000 calories a day and all the water I could drink.
North of 15,000 calories burned while fasting, little more than 3000 calories consumed over 3 long hard days. I gained 3 pounds body weight. lol
My preferred food for rides is pemmican - you cannot beat the energy for the weight. I ate spam on this ride purely as a convenience.
ooof, a 2000 metre day is a tough one, bike weight a factor for sure, still tough though.
funny how people are so different, there is no way in hades that I can't fuel regularly, I've toured enough to know and listen to my body, so have it down fairly well by now, but I certainly need to regularly fuel. Smaller amounts more often tend to work better, especially in hot weather.
Doing what you did would have had me eaten by buzzards by about day two.....