Pasta

A short and simple question....
I ride home at 5pm. What time should I eat my bowl of pasta in order for it to have the best affect on my performance later?
cheers x
I ride home at 5pm. What time should I eat my bowl of pasta in order for it to have the best affect on my performance later?
cheers x
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I usually try and keep a sandwich or banana back for this pupose.
damn it, i ate it at 2pm - three hours before hand. But I am polishing off some cake at present so I am sure I will be able to pedal my censored off
When I commuted, a banana half an hour before setting off was enough time to start digesting it. That was for a 7 mile journey. How far are you travelling that you need a whole bowl of pasta?
I hope I'm not comming across as banana obsessed, but they're an excellent fuel source.
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I have only eaten pasta for lunch recently but have found that it makes a huge difference to my performance.
I have also just been informed that my colleague is on her way back from Ikea and is bringing a jumbo bag of Dime bars back to the office - sugar rush here I come
Wish they still did Old Jamaica chocolate - lovely stuff that
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ok ok... i will try and limit the number of dime bars i eat. Is 4 allowed?
If I cycle 30miles does taht make me a bit less of a greedy pig?
but somewhat prettier :oops:
(only people wo used to frequent CP will understand, you know, the people with the elephant fetish)
- @ddraver
Personally I don't miss the baby elephants :roll:
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They were too low in carbs for my liking!
Are Arch and all her minions not posting on here at all then? Oh well...
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- @ddraver
Since none of 'em has missed me or emailed me I'll say "sod 'em" and loiter around here for a bit longer
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Very flattered about the lovely comments :oops: but who is Arch? And what the hell is all this baby elephant talk?
"If I had a baby elephant it could help me wash the car... If I had a car"
And apparently it got a mention in the Cycling Plus magazine so it started a copying frenzy.
Never bought into it myself, never saw a picture of Arch either so I couldn't comment on the fuss either.
Continue to be yourself Jonesy124 and carry on upgrading that bike!
Didn't the former footballer who rode the route of the Tour de France for leukemia research ride a Bianchi as well?
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Im getting ready for my ride home. Unfortunately my manager is getting back from holiday tomorrow so I will have to get into work an hour earlier in order to make sure everything is perfect. I had plannedget everything ready today but, as usual, I have spent too much time on BR.
and i'm gonna have to remove the elephant link my sig it appears, they ve all gone elsewhere
- @ddraver
Apparantly, eating pasta with some sort of accompanying source is the done thing, and tends to solve the blandness problem.
Zaskar X
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As for 'too bland', perhaps you overcook it.
And there are lots of simple sauces you can make or buy to tart up plain pasta - try a jar of red pesto, or learn how to make 'alla Puttenesca' sauce (garlic, black olives, anchovies and tomatoes) or 'Aglio e Olio' sauce (garlic, dried chili peppers and parsley).
I feel sure a good portion of the latter the night before was the reason behind my PB on the Stelvio the other year!
I sometimes like pasta with just lashings of freshly-grated parmesan and freshly-grated black pepper.
This works particularly well with the flavoured pastas. As well as the tricolore twirly pasta variety, you can also get pastas with specific flavours - chilli pepper, barolo redwine, octopus, salmon, chive, mushroom, chestnut, ramson - most of which taste great.
I've even seen, though never tried, a chocolate-flavoured pasta, the individual pasta shaped like little penises - perhaps the sort of thing jonesy124 might relish before a ride?
Careful now...
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well jonsey, nice to say hi, you sound like a nice kinda girl, so a belated welcome
the elephant thing is a laugh and must be promoted. 8)
a nice simple sauce I go for in a rush is a tin of chopped tomatoes, a little pure' (optional) garlic, pepper and chopped herbs. simple, effective and tasty as hell.
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hahahaha that made me chuckle for quite a while!
so you assume I am a penis fan then?
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I used to live in a house share with an Italian girl and she told me that pasta was meant for wedding parties! She could have been winding me up though..
*ahem* -
http://www.bacheloretteparties.com/penpasininsi.html
("increases in size when cooked" :roll:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK5Bfqj5fxY
so you assume I am a penis fan then?[/quote]
well Jonsey, now that you've opened the can of worms, you may and let us know.
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start a BR trend of copy-cat sig lines
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