Energy levels lacking on the return journey, tips?
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Ate an apple late afternoon that I had overlooked at lunch. Nice crunchy Braeburn. Seemed to give me extra energy on the ride home. May also have been a tailwind. Results inconclusive.0
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Well bananananas are either the energy food of the Gods or there was one whacking tailwind on the way home tonight!
Just checked the cycle comp - topped out at 36.3 mph as well... something good happened on the way home tonight
Hang on - I did a circuit near enough and I know I was straight into the wind at one point... Hmmmm... is this where *I'VE* been going wrong all this time? 8)Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Gussio wrote:Ate an apple late afternoon that I had overlooked at lunch. Nice crunchy Braeburn. Seemed to give me extra energy on the ride home. May also have been a tailwind. Results inconclusive.
Fairly sure there wasn't a tailwind if you were heading south west , so +1 for the apple.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Bananas. Awesome.FCN 2-4.
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essex-commuter wrote:essex-commuter wrote:a bowl of cereal
Not really that into cereals and was blown away by the choice when I went to the supermarket to buy a box. I saw one with Chris Hoy on the front so bought that, and that's all I've had ever since. I'm a creature of habit I suppose. Oi Hoy, on yer bike mate!
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Boing-boing! Keep scoffing them thar bananananananas!!!!i like bike0
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Caffeine also helps - a cup of coffee 15 minutes before you leave. Have it with a banana and you'll be going great guns!0
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lost_in_thought wrote:Caffeine also helps - a cup of coffee 15 minutes before you leave. Have it with a banana and you'll be going great guns!0
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JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Caffeine also helps - a cup of coffee 15 minutes before you leave. Have it with a banana and you'll be going great guns!
Or bio-engineered bananainated coffee?0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Caffeine also helps - a cup of coffee 15 minutes before you leave. Have it with a banana and you'll be going great guns!
Or bio-engineered bananainated coffee?0 -
JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Caffeine also helps - a cup of coffee 15 minutes before you leave. Have it with a banana and you'll be going great guns!
Or bio-engineered bananainated coffee?
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Il Principe wrote:JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Caffeine also helps - a cup of coffee 15 minutes before you leave. Have it with a banana and you'll be going great guns!
Or bio-engineered bananainated coffee?
I'd imagine that Monsters make for messy grinding.
I refer your honour to the response you made in the 3 word thread0 -
I did the full (21 miles each way) commute yesterday and the day before. I was a bag of very slow poo on the way back on Thursday evening. I do eat well (balanced diet, spread through out the day) so it's not entirely a food thing. In my case I need to get used to it, and break up the full commutes with shorter ones (part way in by car), i.e. alternating between 14-20 (for the short commute) and 40+ miles a day makes it easier.
You say you're doing 3 days of bike commuting a week, is that Mon, Wed, Fri with Tue and Thu as rest days? If not, that might well work better than 3 days on the trot.
Also, +1 to the caffeinated banana, sublime ideaThe above is a post in a forum on the Intertubes, and should be taken with the appropriate amount of seriousness.0 -
I eat terribly, which is why I find myself in my current predicament. I wish I could eat bananas but it's something about the texture, they just get stuck in my mouth and I feel like a chimpanzee eating peanut butter. They are however, an amazing food, they can cure hangovers and help prevent cramp as well.0
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Caffeinated banana?
Copa Cobana?
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Banana, bagels, jelly babies, jaffa cakes...0
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My performance does drop off a bit but oddly I am not sure if the traffic lights helped in being kind to me or the saturday traffic but after 4 days commuting in this week I set my PB on the way in this morning but I felt sluggish and there was a head wind for a bit of the journey.0
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Boy Lard wrote:I wish I could eat bananas but it's something about the texture, they just get stuck in my mouth.
I'm no great fan of the texture, particularly if under ripe (though getting to like 'em more), however there's no rule that if you ride bikes you must eat bananas. They're nutritionally useful, certainly, and come in their own handy wrapper, but if you don't like 'em it's pointless trying to force yourself - there's a lot of other fruit or other food you can eat.The above is a post in a forum on the Intertubes, and should be taken with the appropriate amount of seriousness.0