Endurance Training and Energy Foods and Drinks

Benji77

Hi,

I'm currently trainning for my first Endurance ride.. 100 miles over 2 days. I'm riding 2 to 3, 45 to 60 min sessions midweek and then 1, 3 hour session at the weekend.

- Is this enough?
- Are my sessions long enough?

Also,
- Whats peoples opinion on energy bars and drink?
- On this trip, how often should I be eating?
- I'm planning on taking bananas and dried apricots, is there anything else?

Cheers...

epicpeaks

You can get by with that. Midweek sessions I'd add some intensity to maximize your training.

Also if you're riding 2 days back to back, try to add a weekend block of back to back training day. It will help you understand the needs for the event

You should definitely be taking more food. On average 350 calories per hour (depending on weight and what you can tolerate) Head to a bike shop and look for some liquid supplements, gels and bars. Find a decent combination that your body can tolerate and use it in your training prior to your event (don't use anything new at an event!).

grantway

I use a lot of the SIS stuff and cant reccomend that any more really
including the horrable gel bars also the energy bars good flavours
and never felt sick taking any of them.

ACDCwmb

For any long rides or events I use High 5 energy drink mixed at around 70%, during the ride I use SIS gels, usually about 1 every 30-40 mins depending on how hard I'm riding.

30 mins before the ride I have 750ml of 100% energy drink and a powerbar.

I find it very hard to eat "real" food on a very hard fast ride, just can't stomach it. But I always try to get a banana down me at some point.