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Originally Posted by big john
(Post 22726646)
What does your rig typically weigh when loaded touring?
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Originally Posted by oris
(Post 22726626)
:lol:
Had someone do the same when we reached the shack on GMR. Another buddy raided his pantry on a SGRT ride and brought along muffins and a leftover baguette. Highways 39 and 2 have nothing since Newcomb Ranch closed, unless you go to Wrightwood. You could stop at Crystal Lake, actually. |
Originally Posted by GhostRider62
(Post 22726649)
The pony keg on the bag goes 30 pounds.
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Originally Posted by big john
(Post 22726659)
I did strap a 2.5 gallon water jug on my rear rack once. It was 100 degrees in Kansas and I shared.
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Originally Posted by big john
(Post 22726646)
What does your rig typically weigh when loaded touring?
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Originally Posted by big john
(Post 22726385)
One time we climbed Hwy 39 from Duarte and at Highway 2 we stopped to rest and eat and one friend whipped out 2 slices of pizza and the rest of us thought about stealing it from him.
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A nice pair of buns ahead (not male) always give me an extra energy boost.
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I have ridden thousands of miles on tours and with daily distance of more than 100 miles and the only snack I take is one or two small boxes of raisins. I am allergic to raw bananas or I would take one of them in the pocket of my jersey. The fructose in raisins is readily available to the body. Adding in nuts provides fat but they take longer to digest and process than the raisins.
My breakfast is a carb one of pancakes which provides most of the fuel for the day. One can also carbo load with pasta and such the night before but I have not felt the need to do this for normal riding. Carbs in a snack bar or gel packet are not going to provide lasting energy for the body. They also result in getting hungry sooner. |
I always do better with real food. Hammer Perpetuem in my bottle, but a bagel with peanut or almond butter, a baggie of dates or a banana, maybe a Clif Bar. Ok..maybe a donut at a gas station.
And a rest stop doesn't always have to be a sit down lunch. It can be a 5 minute, get off the bike in a park or side of the road. I look at it like this: if I can't win the world championship, I might as well enjoy myself. It's not like there are cheering throngs of fans in the shop parking lot when I get back beating my old PR by 15 seconds. More like an endorsement offer from Otis Spunkmeyer. |
I may be the weirdo here (likely), but unless I'm blasting out a hard multi-hour effort, I don't bother with nutrition while riding.
I mean, it's not as if rolling along in zone 2 is gobbling up my glycogen stores, any way. I won't eat anything on rides of 3-4 hours. I carry a single Clif Shot in case I start feeling bonky, but I can go for months without using it. After a ride is when I chow down. Grab a sandwich or a pastry, drink a latté or a smoothie. |
Originally Posted by bblair
(Post 22751922)
I always do better with real food. Hammer Perpetuem in my bottle, but a bagel with peanut or almond butter, a baggie of dates or a banana, maybe a Clif Bar. Ok..maybe a donut at a gas station.
And a rest stop doesn't always have to be a sit down lunch. It can be a 5 minute, get off the bike in a park or side of the road. I look at it like this: if I can't win the world championship, I might as well enjoy myself. It's not like there are cheering throngs of fans in the shop parking lot when I get back beating my old PR by 15 seconds. More like an endorsement offer from Otis Spunkmeyer. I am asking because if I do an 'easy' ride I also prefer stuff like corn cakes or my own oat & rice cakes. But if I do a lot of climbing, I will use my malto/fructose mix. |
I keep gels and/or some sort of power bar type think in my jersey pocket. If it's a very intense no-stop ride, I'll eat a gel every 30-45 minutes and/or would eat a bar every hour. I can ride one handed so eating and drinking on a bike is not a problem. I put the trash up one or both of my spandex shorts legs where it stays until I get to a trash can. Any sticky residue (and is so little as to be insignificant) is meaningless because I wash the shorts and myself after the ride.
If you have trouble dealing with gel packets on the go, use a gel flask and mix 2-3 gels with water in it. Do a little experimenting so you know how much of a shot to take from the flask to equal one gel. I hate chewy/gummy type stuff. Much harder to consume while exerting myself, plus all the expensive dental work I have is put in jeopardy by them. |
Originally Posted by ZHVelo
(Post 22752150)
At what kind of intensity do you ride?
I am asking because if I do an 'easy' ride I also prefer stuff like corn cakes or my own oat & rice cakes. But if I do a lot of climbing, I will use my malto/fructose mix. Sometimes flat and fast. I get dropped on those. Other times very hilly and long. Hard on the climbs, but regroup and easier on the flat sections. If the group is so intense that there is never a time to put a foot down and take a bite, then that is not the group for me. But good for them. For me, eating regular food is the way to go. Nothing beats a midride peanut butter and jelly sandwich. |
On longer hotter rides, I like keeping organic maple syrup in a 5oz flask.
Easy for me to digest. I can dilute with water. Stores well, Easy to access. Much less expensive than gels and chews.
Originally Posted by UnCruel
(Post 22715268)
The thing holding me back on longer rides has been nutrition. After some experimentation, energy gels seem to be my solution. Load up on carbs ahead of the ride, first gel 45 minutes into the ride, and subsequent gels every 20 minutes. I'll need about 8 of them for a 3½ hour ride.
My question is, how do people manage this without stopping? I've been keeping them in a handlebar bag, but maybe I need a different bag, because it's difficult to open and close with one hand. I need to extract a gel packet from wherever I'm keeping them, tear off the top, stow the torn off part somewhere without littering, consume the gel, and stow the trash. Are there handlebar bags which are better for this than the one I'm using? (If so, recommendations, please.) Jersey pockets? I haven't tried it, but eight packets seems awkward in a rear pocket, to say nothing of putting trash back there. Also, a similar topic is water. My routes rarely have good opportunities to refill water bottles. A Camelbak-style reservoir solves the problem for me, but I understand it's some sort of roadie fashion faux pas? |
My wife bakes high energy protein bars which are quite tasty. Then I take packets of Gu for a long ride. I find they are a nice pick me up.
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For me, anything under 2 1/2 hours, I don't take in calories other than what I get from my half-strength Gatorade I drink. With my rather moderate power output, I'm burning about 500-600 cal per hour. So, if my ride is going to go longer then 2 1/2 hours, I'll target eating 500+ cal for each hour beyond 1 1/2 hours.. Though, I will start eating after about the first hour with the goal to finish eating whatever I planned to, with about another hour to go in the ride. This is to give myself time to digest and absorb it. Gels of course are a more immediate thing. But that's only if I feel that I need a shot of something towards the end of a ride.
I frequently do 3 1/2 to 4 hour rides and for these I'll target eating about 500 calories. Usually two Clif bars. I have extra bars and a few gels if ever needed (rare). In the summer when I get out at dawn, I won't eat anything before the ride. I have enough glycogen to do 2 1/2 hours fasted. In the winter when I ride in the afternoon, I'll eat a small early lunch about an hour before I ride. This works well for me for most rides since I don't compete. But if I really want to push hard on a ride, I will be better off if I load up the day before on carbs. Seems to give me a boost on rides the next day. No idea if this has built up more glycogen, or perhaps when I overeat, my body simply hasn't finished digesting it all and therefore I'm not in a fasted state the next day. |
However, when the Mrs. and I ride our tandem, she likes to stick to the bike path and have a planned destination. There is a town with a couple of nice coffee shops about 15 miles away, so that is our typical stop. No Gu or Gels. Real, hot food only. Breakfast biscuit sandwiches, muffins, or this: cappucino and some sort of Greek spinach/feta pastry. Yum!
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...107cb16535.jpg Since we are on a tandem, we each eat half! |
Originally Posted by bblair
(Post 22754149)
However, when the Mrs. and I ride our tandem, she likes to stick to the bike path and have a planned destination. There is a town with a couple of nice coffee shops about 15 miles away, so that is our typical stop. No Gu or Gels. Real, hot food only. Breakfast biscuit sandwiches, muffins, or this: cappucino and some sort of Greek spinach/feta pastry. Yum!
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...107cb16535.jpg Since we are on a tandem, we each eat half! |
Originally Posted by rsbob
(Post 22754397)
That works if each person puts in equal halves of the effort. When my wife and I rode our tandem, it was more like 6/10s and 4/10s and on hills 8 to 2. That doesn’t leave much pastry. ;)
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Originally Posted by bblair
(Post 22755225)
While that might be true, I have learned that when someone asks, "who does most of the work?", the only correct answer is "it is a team effort and we both work hard." I am not stupid. Which means, I learn from past mistakes.
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Originally Posted by 10 Wheels
(Post 22715565)
Carry Two behind the Saddle.
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