Fuelling for evening 10TT events
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It's less than 30 mins effort, you don't need fuelling past lunch!
Ah - yes, but when I finish my lunch by 10am I kinda need something before a 1930 start ....
You might want it, but you don't need it. You'll burn at most 400 calories in a 10 mile TT including warm up.
Edit: or eat your lunch at lunch time.
That is very dependant on many things, I can tell you that a warm up I would typically do and then a 10 would be considerably more than that probably 3 times as much as that in fact! So I always have a gel during the late part of a warm up.
But for a midweek event, I would just eat usually and perhaps grab a couple of bananas or flapjack and eat a bit of that an hour or so before? Not life or death stuff, but worth eating something just to make sure you feel ok I reckon
You probably put out about 3 times as many watts as most of us though Rob
To be honest I always have a gel 15 mins before the start of any event after a warm up. I was more making the point that it's not going to make or break a ride but I said it in rather unhelpful terms.Insta: ATEnduranceCoaching
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Yeh I agree, normal food is gunna be fine for most, but obviously don't only have a salad for lunch or anything silly, and yep, for the sake of £1 necking a gel beforehand will ensure you've got all you need - barely any kcal penalty of doing so either given they're only about 100kcal!Blog on my first and now second season of proper riding/racing - www.firstseasonracing.com0
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Yeh I agree, normal food is gunna be fine for most, but obviously don't only have a salad for lunch or anything silly, and yep, for the sake of £1 necking a gel beforehand will ensure you've got all you need - barely any kcal penalty of doing so either given they're only about 100kcal!
I agree - I think a gel is worth it, even for a possible placebo effect and/or removing the option of blaming a lack of fuelling for not putting in a competitive time.0 -
I'd have a normal lunch and maybe a bowl of cereal when I got back from work a couple of hours before the TT, if it was closer then maybe a banana or something. I would avoid a gel 15 minutes before the off as I understood that could cause a sugar spike and then a dip which might coincide with the start of the effort - that's purely from a theoretical rather than personal experience perspective.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0
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Has he done an evening 10 yet, this is getting boring !0
