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Century Rides - What are you eating?

by Ewbles
Tue, Jun 21, 2016 09:17
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I'm just curious to know what food people are carrying for century rides. For shorter rides I've always gone out with a bagel, a bottle of energy drink and a gel for emergencies, but as my milage has crept up I'm starting to mess around with my supplies a little more. My ideal would be to carry nothing but gels and energy bars for the convenience of the sugar hit and the fact that they take up so little space, (I'm not a weight weenie, I just like to have as little crap with me as I can, I hate the feel of a lumpy jersey) but I'm not sure my guts could handle five or six hours on just gels, so I'm balancing them out with flapjacks and malt loaf slices.

What do other people carry when they're going to hit triple digits?

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Daveyraveygravey replied to davel | 8 years ago
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davel wrote:

If it's one of my own rides, I normally factor in stopping for a sarnie midway through.

If it's an event I'll get a decent feed at a feed station - whatever they're offering.

I get some porridge in before heading out, and normally carry a couple of bars and bags of sweets for a sugar hit, and some powders for when I refill bottles. I tend to find if you make some of it 'recovery' stuff (protein) it staves off hunger better, and I get home with food to spare.

 

I'm with Dave on this one, if it's an event I will try and get something at the feed stops, although variety isn't always great and you can't always get stuff to carry with you.  Savoury is good too, mini pork pies have made my day a couple of times! On normal rides, I'm trying to get back to pub stops - a pint and some chips, or maybe a light meal, life's too short to always be worrying about pace, and what time you said you'd get back home.

Will try the recovery/protein idea, hadn't come across that before.

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PaulBox | 8 years ago
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Gels mess my stomach up, I tend to stuff a big packet of Jelly Babies in my pocket for longer rides.

But I'm rubbish at eating while cycling, energy bars tend to take me about ten minutes per bite to get down.

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sergius | 8 years ago
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For me I avoid the gels, they seem to do nothing for hunger pangs for me.

I tend to stick to:

- flapjacks

- various "tracker" style bars (whatever is on offer)

- "belvita" style biscuits

 

I can comfortably carry enough of these for 5-6 hours on the bike without my jersey feeling overloaded. (in two pockets, one has my phone)

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