Post-ride to-dos

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  • sparklehedgehog
    sparklehedgehog Posts: 295
    fatsmoker wrote:
    Got home, put bike away, made coffee, drank coffee, put clothes in the washing machine, showered, washed helmet in the shower.
    Surely that should read "both helmets"?!
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  • butcher of bakersfield
    butcher of bakersfield Posts: 1,233
    Protein and carbs within an hour of getting off the bike, to aid recovery (the protein bit is very important). Plenty of water throughout the day (I find I have to continue drinking afterwards...not just on the bike). And a bit of stretching helps freshen me up a bit.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I have a protein milkshake thing my dad got loads of when he was in the hospital, have a shower, strava, scrambled egg sandwich normally and watch tv.

    For a while I did a warm down on the turbo after long rides. This was in the summer when it wa very hot and I was finding I was very lethargic after just stopping.
  • john5339
    john5339 Posts: 10
    Often after a long ride I am not especially hungry - anyone else experienced this ? The next day however, I usually do feel like eating a lot of carby stuff.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,468
    I'm not sure coffee is the best thing to rehydrate with after a ride. Caffeine is a diuretic.
  • navrig2
    navrig2 Posts: 1,851
    Take off some clothing, coffee, toast/peanut butter& jam, shower, rinse bike and put in garage after it has dried. Keeping drinking diluted juice.
    Cut grass.
    Meat protein (bacon preferred).
  • navrig2
    navrig2 Posts: 1,851
    john5339 wrote:
    Often after a long ride I am not especially hungry - anyone else experienced this ? The next day however, I usually do feel like eating a lot of carby stuff.

    No, always hungry. When I started cycling I would get meat protein cravings about two hours after the ride. This is not as bad now.
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,295
    Same,

    40 miler on saturday morning and I had a bacon butty at the end followed by quiche and beans at homeon top of the flap jack mid ride.

    Then got a maoning at off mrs HD because she seems to think I can ride 40m without food to try a lose weight.
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  • rpherts
    rpherts Posts: 207
    Stand on the podium
  • navrig2
    navrig2 Posts: 1,851
    homers double wrote:
    Then got a maoning at off mrs HD because she seems to think I can ride 40m without food to try a lose weight.

    You can but can she put up with the grump git you will turn into in the afternoon?
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,295
    What do you mean "turn in to" :wink:
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  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    Speckled wrote:
    I know what i should be eating and drinking, but i usualy end up finishing off a bottle of whatevers left in the cupboard. Exercise makes me crave alcohol for some reason

    My missus plied me with wine when I got in yesterday evening after a 25 mile extended commute home- fatal. Spent the next 3 hours unable to do anything.
  • Moonbiker
    Moonbiker Posts: 1,706
    Check veloviewer* score & segment ranking & drink a glass of milk.

    *Im sure the novelty will wear off eventually though.
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Moonbiker wrote:
    Check veloviewer* score & segment ranking & drink a glass of milk.

    *Im sure the novelty will wear off eventually though.

    Have a banana instead of the milk
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    SloppySchleckonds wrote:
    ave a banana

    its all gone a bit cockney in here!!
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  • Speckled
    Speckled Posts: 97
    fatsmoker wrote:
    Speckled wrote:
    I know what i should be eating and drinking, but i usualy end up finishing off a bottle of whatevers left in the cupboard. Exercise makes me crave alcohol for some reason

    My missus plied me with wine when I got in yesterday evening after a 25 mile extended commute home- fatal. Spent the next 3 hours unable to do anything.

    Todays post ride drink is a rather large glass of port, cant see me doing much this evening :lol:
  • ashleydwsmith
    ashleydwsmith Posts: 693
    QuarterPounder wrote:
    fatsmoker wrote:
    Did my first lengthy ride of the year today. Got a bit of cramp in the afternoon while watching Escape to the Country, so wondered who does anything extra to what I generally do below.

    Got home, put bike away, made coffee, drank coffee, put clothes in the washing machine, showered, washed helmet in the shower. Got dressed, put shoes and helmet on the washing line, made another coffee and had a biscuit. Eventually had lunch - salad.

    Stretching? A full warm-down? More water?


    Just me that laughed at that bit?

    Dirty!

    no i did too, and also wondered whether the OP pegs his helmet to line to dry or not?
  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    ashleydwsmith wrote:

    no i did too, and also wondered whether the OP pegs his helmet to line to dry or not?[/quote]

    Yes, then I usually forget about it and it rains

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