Morning nutrition
05-15-24, 08:32 AM
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05-15-24, 11:00 AM
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On the mornings that I commute to work, I wait to eat anything until I get in to work. If I'm doing a longer ride, I'll wake up with enough time to eat my normal breakfast foods, then wait a couple hours. This usually gives me just enough time to "offload" the meal from the previous day, and it'll give me about 8 hours of uninterrupted ride time. Then I just use Bloks and bars as needed while riding.
05-16-24, 10:46 PM
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On the mornings that I commute to work, I wait to eat anything until I get in to work. If I'm doing a longer ride, I'll wake up with enough time to eat my normal breakfast foods, then wait a couple hours. This usually gives me just enough time to "offload" the meal from the previous day, and it'll give me about 8 hours of uninterrupted ride time. Then I just use Bloks and bars as needed while riding.
Kidding. Think I offloaded once back in ‘87. 
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05-17-24, 08:57 AM
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I never eat in the morning before working out. Whether the bike, run, swim, or weights. Nothing like coming off an evening fast and working hard on an empty stomach. It forces us, generally speaking, to use up energy stores in our liver and muscles. I've lost quite a bit of fat on this approach.
05-17-24, 10:34 AM
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07-15-24, 04:15 PM
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My favorite thing in the morning - cottage cheese + banana + mixed nuts and dried fruits . Tastes amazing and gives me lots of energy. Best breakfast ever. It happened couple of times that i run out of something at home and for those reasons i've started to check Sparkdrive reviews, cause turned out they can deliver groceries to my home very and very quickly.
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07-15-24, 04:23 PM
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Bananas. Love Bananas. They are very high in serotonin and I feel fantastic every time I eat one, particularly with some coffee or raw milk.
07-20-24, 08:14 PM
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Lots of my summer weekend rides are 80-100 miles beginning at about 6:30 AM - or earlier. If I don't eat breakfast, I'm not going to feel so great after 3 hours. Yes, I fuel on the bike, but there's a limit to how much I can consume that way.
So I have a medium-sized breakfast - dry cereal, a banana, a protein bar (+ coffee, of course) - about an hour before I ride. I'm not going to wake up much earlier than that just to have extra digestion time.
During the week, I mostly ride later in the day, but for various reasons I might go for an early morning ride - not more than 40 miles. No need for breakfast before that.
So I have a medium-sized breakfast - dry cereal, a banana, a protein bar (+ coffee, of course) - about an hour before I ride. I'm not going to wake up much earlier than that just to have extra digestion time.
During the week, I mostly ride later in the day, but for various reasons I might go for an early morning ride - not more than 40 miles. No need for breakfast before that.
