Drink/Food Consumption

Jamkite

I have been riding for 6 months now and regularly
do 30 mile rides with no problems at all, In the last few
weekends I have upped my weekend rides to 50 miles
but I am finding in the last 10 miles I am almost drained
of energy.
Two things come to mind, pushing myself a bit too hard
but I can't help feeling that it's mainly down to not taking enough
food/drink on board, the last ride I took was 2 bottles of Sisgo,
a gel and a banana.
Can anyone out there give me some useful tips?
I am 6ft and 12.5 stone if this helps.

oldwelshman

I think you had enough food and drink for 50 miles, unless you fasted for a day before
Some riders eat more than others, I usually just have a bottle for up to 40 miles with reserve gel.
For longer rides take two bottles and 2 or three bananas.

guilliano

Get a carb drink, something like PSP22 from SIS. Have a 500ml drink the night before your ride and another before you head out along with your brekkie. This will hopefully fuel you to the end of your ride.

jibberjim

oldwelshman wrote:

I think you had enough food and drink for 50 miles, unless you fasted for a day before
Some riders eat more than others, I usually just have a bottle for up to 40 miles with reserve gel.
For longer rides take two bottles and 2 or three bananas.

Number of miles done is pretty useless at saying if your food intake was appropriate. 50miles done at a pootling pace where fat is the main energy source for the muscles, needs a very different amount of food to 50miles done at maximum effort (for 50m)

So the original guy needs to look at the sort of riding he was doing, and pick food to go with it. Was he pootling along, and then hammering the hills, if so, carry more food of any sort, it'll digest easy enough on the pootling parts. But if it was 50miles all out time trial effort, then he's going to need to carry more sports nutrition type foods, that can be easily digested at high intensities.