Doing my first solo 100miler tomoz

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  • Hals1967
    Hals1967 Posts: 231
    Just wondered if he is called Morpheus, lol....awww forget it ! :oops:

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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    freehub wrote:
    Pokerface wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    I dunno if he'd like me to say, he does not want his name spread around the internet.



    Somewhat ironic that a person who presumably makes his living coaching people and could use more clients wouldn't want their name made public!

    He does not make a living and does not want any more clients. If he wants someone, he will get in contact with them, he was expecting me apparently but I faffed around about it and took a while before I went, I never expected it to be what it is.


    But how will he know if he wants me!!?? And how will he get in touch with me!?
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Sounds a bit like Keyser Soze...
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    edited April 2010
    blah
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Yes - that makes more sense.
  • simon_e
    simon_e Posts: 1,707
    Pokerface wrote:
    Somewhat ironic that a person who presumably makes his living coaching people and could use more clients wouldn't want their name made public!
    Who said freehub's coach was touting?

    Whether you like it or not, Fastlad is right about food. Sat.fats, especially hydrogenated ones and processed foods are not as good for you as less processed ones. I don't think a Mars bar during a ride is so bad, but overall GIGO applies to food as much as anything else. Sure, you may go fast on a cheap bacon bap where the nutrients have been removed from the white flour and the pig has been fed and injected with all sorts and the meat product treated with nasty cr@p (see http://www.pigbusiness.co.uk/). While I like choccy bars I'd take a smaller one like Aldi Racer or a Cadbury's Fudge to supplement the bananas, raisins and fruit bars I usually take with me.

    Eating cheaply doesn't necessarily mean badly. I know what living on a budget is like, and if you want to train well you need to eat *healthily*, not merely count calories. Porridge or muesli, eggs, baked and other beans, wholemeal bread and rice, fresh veg, fruit, nuts and seeds are all valuable dietary components. I'm not sure tinned tuna has that much nutrition left in it TBH, you're better off getting a mackerel fillet if you want some oily fish, and check the Reduced shelves for short-dated bargains. Meat and cow's milk are vastly overrated. Ignore the marketing hype (like the calcium myth) I've read too much damning info about the white stuff.
    Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Don't shop at Tesco Metro too - they charge you a massive premium to shop there!
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    What I eat for most of my emals.

    stew that my mum has cooked.

    Beans and jacket potato, along with one whole fried onion (olive oil)
    Pasta, penne pasta, with pasta sauce from a jar, or just tinned tomato
    tortellini pasta
    soup
    oatmeal or wholemeal bread
    porridge (I use those cheap 50p bags of oats from tesco as I make flapjack with em too)
    Sometimes I treat myself to a microwaved mars bar (I LOVE EM)
    omelette, with cheese
    cheese and corned beef sarnie
    grape fruit
    banana
    eggy bread
    bag of mixed vegetables, I use these allot
    Mash potato, I LOVE making mash potato, especially when I put some cheese in it.

    That's about all I eat.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Simon E wrote:
    Sure, you may go fast on a cheap bacon bap where the nutrients have been removed from the white flour and the pig has been fed and injected with all sorts and the meat product treated with nasty cr@p (see http://www.pigbusiness.co.uk/).


    Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. Pigs sleep and root in sh!t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
  • Heckler1974
    Heckler1974 Posts: 479
    Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. Pigs sleep and root in sh!t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

    How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
  • DaveyL
    DaveyL Posts: 5,167
    Heckler1974 wrote:
    Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. Pigs sleep and root in sh!t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

    How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.

    I bet he don't eat dog either...

    :D
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Heckler1974 wrote:
    Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. Pigs sleep and root in sh!t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

    How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.

    I don't eat dog either.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    **** I'm gonna go to hell cause I love bacon.
  • sagalout
    sagalout Posts: 338
    Pokerface wrote:


    Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. Pigs sleep and root in sh!t. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

    How are you with vegetables? They positively thrive in shit!
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Done about the same distance today, except in a group. Was doing 20 avg on the way out then on the way back. I'm not as knackered as last time. We had a caffe stop and I had poached egg and beans on toast. A small glass of orange and a pint of water. Went through about 3 750ml bottles. Had a banana, mars bar, some cereal bar, and some flapjack with chocolate and cornflakes. I did allot better on the hills today, was first up every one.

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  • Airwave
    Airwave Posts: 483
    You were probably worrying to much about your solo ride the other day.You may have knackerd yourself out with nervous energy before the ride.Where as today-well just another ride.Glad you had a good day so soon after the nightmare ride :lol:
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  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    good luck on the ride just take it steady
    going downhill slowly
  • sampras38
    sampras38 Posts: 1,917
    freehub wrote:
    Are snickers better than Mars Bars?

    Would 10 gels get me through a ride as good as say 8 snickers or something? I might get some gels because they're easy to open.

    Gels are about 80 odd calories each and I only use em as a last resport at the end of a long ride or sportive. They are designed so the energy is ready to use quickly, and completely different to how your body would use say a flapjack. The isotonic ones such as SIS are good because they work without water. i tend to eat my solid carbs at the beginning/middle of a long ride so it's ready in time tov use it. Solids will take longer for your body to digest so no real benefit from eating a flapjack if you've only got, say an hour or so left.

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