What is best to eat?

boybiker

Usual problem after a long hard ride of 60 miles averaging 23 MPH with some bike club nutters. need to eat stuff but don't actually feel like anything heavy. Whats good easy to digest and won't leave me feeling like I am about to throw up?

I got mixed in with some army cycling club people and they are completely mad and as hard as erm... hard things.
Like my new hair by the way?
My brother says it makes me look like a galloping homosexual, but he's a twat you can safely ignore him.

shockedsoshocked

If you only want something small maybe a glass of milk and a banana?

SteK

That's not my usual problem after 60 miles at 23mph.

My usual problem is wondering if the ambulance will get to me in time.

While I'm waiting I'd usually eat wholemeal toast with a scraping of marmite and a bit of peanut butter.

If I'm feeling sweet (which you and your pink hair may well be ) I tend to replace the marmite with jam or honey.

Glass of milk and a sleep.

Job's a good'un.

rossbarney2003

I like to eat soup when I get back from a cycle. It always seems to do the trick for me.


P.S. Being a homosexual myself, I can safely so your hair does not make u look like a homo. I have seen far worse.....


......am I the only homo in the bikeradar village??? :shock:

dondare

The title of this particular forum should give you a clue about what cyclists eat tho I'm more of a "beer break" person myself. Actually neither cakes nor ale are good recovery foods with regards to the nutritional requirements of a weary cyclist, they're just very welcome at the time.
Scientific comparisons of recovery drinks put chocolate milk at the top, so maybe Cocopops?
BTW, congratulations on your new look, which I do not see as being either more, or less gay than your old look.

boybiker

oooohh well,
I found that a large number of peanut butter and jam sandwiches and half a ton of icecream made me feel kind of human again.

Got to say that was a frikking hard ride most of the icecream went down my shorts
You'll be glad to hear my brother has a very sore leg for being such a dick.

Jez mon

Have you thought of trying road racing...it's probably easier than riding with those nutters. My club run only averaged 16.5 mph and I found out I wasn't able to attack like Ricco, to the amusement of fellow riders.

As to the answer of your question, a recovery drink would probably be good, you can actually make your own version using banana, peanut butter, chocolate and milk (which sounds disgusting but tastes fine!). Personally I don't find it as effective, but that may just be the placebo effect of taking "proper" recovery drink.

Don't worry too much about eating, you'll be able to eat when hungry, when I finish races my parents/team mates are always pushing food in my face but I just have a recovery drink and a lie down.

boybiker

Sounds disgusting :shock: but I'll give it a go
Ive just got my racing license this weekend so I am doing my first open road race on Saturday.I happen to know that there are going to be cat 1people and a least one elite guy racing ,well he was elite but didn't renew his license last year so hes dropped down to cat 1,so I expect its going to be just as painful
I am hoping that even if I cannot attack like Armstong I can shock them into submission with my hair

Ohh and I managed to have a piss while riding along which is a lot more difficult than it looks not least avoiding pissing on the HUGE army bloke who is riding behind.

nick hanson

Bet not many pro's do 23mph for 60 miles in training.
It's either a tall story,or you'd be better saving that form for an actual race.
Seriously,Roche said when he'd made a Mega effort in a race,which is the sort of effort you seem to be making,he went to bed without eating,as his system wouldn't cope with trying to digest food after this effort.for the next day or so,he would then just have soup or such.
Still,23 mph,in training,makes you think....complete Bulls**t,or the next big thing in the pro ranks :roll:

st68

its cows na its horses no no its?? he he

Jez mon

For euro pros, 20mph is easyish cruising pace, not sure about brit pros.

Its perfectly possible but it would be a killer effort, no offence to bb, but I should think he spent a lot of time on the back chewing the handlebars and I would think the weather was pretty favorable, you have to remember that a few competitive racing guys can make training into a race.

Now as to whether I would recommend making that sort of effort in training....of course not!

shockedsoshocked

It could have been a flat run with a good tail wind? Plus in a group the workload is always a lot less.

geoff_ss

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

It could have been a flat run with a good tail wind? Plus in a group the workload is always a lot less.

I think he lives in Selby from his previous posts so a flattish 60 miles would be quite easy to find. Never the less it's a long time since I averaged 23 mph for 100km if I ever did. I'm pleased to say computers offering average speed as a read-out option didn't exist then

I am a bit dubious of these average speed claims. They often don't count the cafe stop. Our average speed for a day out of (say) 50 miles is probably in single figures

Anyway, good luck with your open road race. I hope you enjoy it. I always found that racing spoilt a good ride so I admire those who claim to enjoy it

Geoff

boybiker

Its pretty flat on Button moon.
Its quite easy to go 60 miles on a club run especially when you are as good at getting lost as I am, possibly it was due to the fact that we got split off from the main group and had to turn round and sprint back to catch them up again.

markos1963

Our 'slow' group on a 60 mile club run averages about 18mph but often the last 30 is cranked up to 23-24mph so I can see where his figures come from. I'm not good enough yet to go with the fast boys but I hear they do those sort of speeds. Also group riding, you use nearly 30% less energy sitting in the pack so 60 miles at pace is far easier.

For recovery I just take liquids until my next sceduled mealtime and then I try to take in easily digestable proteins(fish or chicken) and a good mix of veg for essential vitamins.

SteK

As to the answer of your question, a recovery drink would probably be good, you can actually make your own version using banana, peanut butter, chocolate and milk (which sounds disgusting but tastes fine!). Personally I don't find it as effective, but that may just be the placebo effect of taking "proper" recovery drink.

My experience says those sort of recovery drinks are bob-on (as they say in yorkshire) - although I can't compare to the proper stuff - as I've never tried 'em.

consistancy can be changed with the addition of weetabix or some oats nuked in water/milk - plus you can pick up those neutral carb powders cheap as chips - I've got a kilo tub that cost no more than £8-£9 and is tasteless when chucked into the mix...

I can notice a big difference between post ride with one of these bad boys... with nothing I feel like I want to sleep half an hour later....

grayo59

23mph average over 60 miles! I'd be very happy with 23 mph over 6 miles... or even 0.6 miles! :oops: