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linsen
linsen Posts: 1,959
edited September 2008 in Commuting chat
Hello. Ideas please. I commute to work, it's a 24 mile round trip up some pretty fierce hills. I wear a HR monitor which tells me it costs me 1600 cals or so to get there and back. When I get there I have to teach, and today when I did it I felt a bit spaced out! I drink enough but I'm struggling to figure out what to eat. I have a few pounds in excess but no more. What do you eat when you get there?
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  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    Hi, sorry i have not the faintest clue when it comes to cals used, but a banana (and sometimes a bit of malt loaf) and mug of tea after a 26 mile (flat but sometimes a bstd headwind) route usually does the trick for me.
    Morning route (when i don't get the train)

    Evening route ,
  • windbreaker
    windbreaker Posts: 91
    I have a 23 mile per journey commute http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Jo ... Livingston
    and then have to teach. I find using an energy drink helps enormously. I prefer High5 4:1 but any of the usual suspects works well. If I don’t take the energy drink I am starving when I get there, and can easily pig out on the most unhealthy foods – we have a canteen so a black pudding roll is an easy option :oops: . I still lose weight with the energy drink. I may supplement with a banana but I know its all doing me good.
  • SCOTT325SE
    SCOTT325SE Posts: 888
    linsen wrote:
    Hello. Ideas please. I commute to work, it's a 24 mile round trip up some pretty fierce hills. I wear a HR monitor which tells me it costs me 1600 cals or so to get there and back. When I get there I have to teach, and today when I did it I felt a bit spaced out! I drink enough but I'm struggling to figure out what to eat. I have a few pounds in excess but no more. What do you eat when you get there?

    i do a 24 round trip and to be honest, i find that eatting BEFORE i leave to be more beneficial. Do something generic - banana/toast and jam/bowl of cereal whatever you find easiest to hold down on the bike.
    Then, have a small snack when you get there, poss an energy drink or another small portion of what you had for breakfast. I find the key is to eat little amounts so you dont wanna chuck, but to eat often enough that you keep your energy.
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    I have a banana about 10 mins before I leave, peps me right up, then I've got 14 miles (over which I drink half a pint of water on a cool day) and when I get work work porridge or bacon and sausage with fruit jiuice.

    No energy problems.
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  • bomberharris72
    bomberharris72 Posts: 44
    I do an 11 mile each way and am starving all day. I have porridge and yoghurt when I get there at seven, beans and egg on toast with bacon at nine, a big sandwich at lunch time with snacks in between and a main meal at home in the evening. And I'm still losing weight! It's playing havoc with my digestive system but I can't shake off being hungry. Am I going wrong somewhere? Some of you seem to exist on thin air!
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    bomberharris72 wrote:
    And I'm still losing weight!

    I don't give myself a chance to get hungry.

    Big breakfast, big dinner at 12pm sharp, something at 4pm ish, and then masshoofy dinner in the evening, something like a cowpie or a whole pig

    I did eat bad the other day, several donuts and a bag of jelly beans in the afternoon, felt the sugar low on the way home for sure.

    Gah, my bike's at work tonight so I can't ride in in the morning and I really want to now!
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  • Nick6891
    Nick6891 Posts: 274
    i find eating a proper ham salad sandwich from my local shop can keep me going for at least 20mins, egg and real ham gives you plenty of energy, or just have a bag of jelly babies
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    mmm... jelly babies! They do hurt my stomach after the first bag or two though ;-)
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    Haribo. Preferably Tangfastics.
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    Porridge with raisins in the morning along with granary or brown toast with honey, for some great slow release carbs.

    Also, remember you can actually carb load the night before so use your dinner menu wisely if you know you'll need energy the next day.

    Snack stuff, what's already been mentioned really, bananas are the best, malt loaf and flapjack are great but NOT store bought crap, flapjacks only take 10 mins to prepr and 20 mins to bake in the oven...I make mine alongside cooking dinner one evening and that sets me up for a the week :)
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    linsen wrote:
    Hello. Ideas please. I commute to work, it's a 24 mile round trip up some pretty fierce hills. I wear a HR monitor which tells me it costs me 1600 cals or so to get there and back. When I get there I have to teach, and today when I did it I felt a bit spaced out! I drink enough but I'm struggling to figure out what to eat. I have a few pounds in excess but no more. What do you eat when you get there?

    Whether it's accurate or not, I don't know, but my HRM says I burn around the 900 cals mark each way, perhaps 950 on the way home.

    Before I leave the house, it's at least two slices of toast with marmalade and/or cereal and two cups of coffee.

    When I get to work, one For Goodness Shakes and a banana. Sometimes another banana mid-morning. I also have a Vit C tablet.

    Lunch: a can of soup and some bread, with another banana in the afternoon. However, I may stray by eating the four pack of large cookies from Sainsbury's.

    When I get home, everything I can get my hand on without leaving the kids to starve.
    FCN 2-4.

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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Nick6891
    Nick6891 Posts: 274
    you need a big breakfast with energy in it

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