Snacks for longer rides.

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  • BLW
    BLW Posts: 96
    Suppose we are all different, what works me:-

    Alpen Trail Bars

    Slice of nutty brown bread, toasted with peanut butter/chocolate spread on

    Bananna

    Luzcasade Engery Drink (not the fizzy ones) and plenty of water the night before and early in the morning.

    Thick flavoured Milk shake (rugby player told me about this one, he said forget the sugary energy drink and try thick milk shake) have to say it did work, but I just had a quarter of the milk shake before I set off.

    Porridge (really early on in the morning though) but a few hours before a long ride I'll dig into a Princess Tuna Light Lunchtime snack (think there's a choice of 3 flavours, some with beans in, some with pasta in) there quite light so not heavy on your stomach but I find they just give you that exta boost for later on while your porridge kicking in.

    :D
  • batmo
    batmo Posts: 277
    BLW wrote:
    Thick flavoured Milk shake (rugby player told me about this one, he said forget the sugary energy drink and try thick milk shake) have to say it did work, but I just had a quarter of the milk shake before I set off.
    I forget which one now, but the author of one of those "riding-around-the-world" books swore by 2 litres of cheap ice-cream for lunch each day...
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  • BLW
    BLW Posts: 96
    Batmo wrote:
    BLW wrote:
    Thick flavoured Milk shake (rugby player told me about this one, he said forget the sugary energy drink and try thick milk shake) have to say it did work, but I just had a quarter of the milk shake before I set off.
    I forget which one now, but the author of one of those "riding-around-the-world" books swore by 2 litres of cheap ice-cream for lunch each day...

    Ha haa, I could live with that!
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    I can see this topic eventually being one of those touchy subjects like the debate about wearing a helmet. On the one side, the people who slurp energy gels and need to rebalance their electrolytes after every ride, on the other, the people who have a cup of tea and carry flapjack.

    We need to think up a catchy name for the latter because I'm damned if I'm going to align myself with anything called "the tea party". I propose "the flapjack track snack pack", and our password is the name repeated a dozen times
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  • apreading
    apreading Posts: 4,535
    I think there are 3 categories:

    Sports Nutritionists
    Natural Food evangelists
    Cake & pie eaters

    I tend to veer between 1 & 3, with occasional experiments with 2...

    As an aside - I did what was effectively (for me) a 25 mile time trial yesterday and didnt even take water, not even a bottle, and no nutrition/food/drugs etc at all - do I win a prize in the pi**ing contest?
  • kajjal
    kajjal Posts: 3,380
    Museli bars and plain water. With a chocolate milkshake once I have finished ;)
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    apreading wrote:
    I think there are 3 categories:

    Sports Nutritionists
    Natural Food evangelists
    Cake & pie eaters

    I tend to veer between 1 & 3, with occasional experiments with 2...

    As an aside - I did what was effectively (for me) a 25 mile time trial yesterday and didnt even take water, not even a bottle, and no nutrition/food/drugs etc at all - do I win a prize in the pi**ing contest?

    No, there are only two categories:

    Tea and cake
    Cake and tea

    Well done for your 25 mile time trial, it was hot yesterday! After that I'm sure a pint of milk and a Mars bar would go down a treat.
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    XM-057 rigid 29er
  • apreading
    apreading Posts: 4,535
    Giraffoto wrote:
    No, there are only two categories:

    Tea and cake
    Cake and tea

    The question then is - do you dunk? I have heard that the body absorbs the calories faster that way... :mrgreen:
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    As an aside - I did what was effectively (for me) a 25 mile time trial yesterday and didnt even take water, not even a bottle, and no nutrition/food/drugs etc at all - do I win a prize in the pi**ing contest?

    Of course you don't, if you took more than an hour you don't want to be boasting anyway.
  • apreading
    apreading Posts: 4,535
    njee20 wrote:
    As an aside - I did what was effectively (for me) a 25 mile time trial yesterday and didnt even take water, not even a bottle, and no nutrition/food/drugs etc at all - do I win a prize in the pi**ing contest?

    Of course you don't, if you took more than an hour you don't want to be boasting anyway.

    I will admit - I only averaged 18mph. Maybe if I had filled up with gels and put drink powder down my bibshorts and tipped ice over myself beforehand then I would have done it in under an hour - thats what the pros do, dont they? :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

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