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Century Rides – What are you eating?

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  • June 21, 2016 at 8:17 am #25918
    Ewbles

    I’m just curious to know what food people are carrying for century rides. For shorter rides I’ve always gone out with a bagel, a bottle of energy drink and a gel for emergencies, but as my milage has crept up I’m starting to mess around with my supplies a little more. My ideal would be to carry nothing but gels and energy bars for the convenience of the sugar hit and the fact that they take up so little space, (I’m not a weight weenie, I just like to have as little crap with me as I can, I hate the feel of a lumpy jersey) but I’m not sure my guts could handle five or six hours on just gels, so I’m balancing them out with flapjacks and malt loaf slices.

    What do other people carry when they’re going to hit triple digits?

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  • June 23, 2016 at 5:11 pm #873823
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    Jimnm

    Just love all butter

    Just love all butter flapjacks from Spar shops, I’ve tried loads of other brands, but these are the very best.

    June 23, 2016 at 3:22 pm #873821
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    magicshite

    depends on your body. Some

    depends on your body. Some people prefer solids, some prefer gels.

    I tried solids during my training and I shatted bricks in the middle of the ride.

    Tried lots of combination, my stomach can only tolerate gels and bananas and nothing else.

     

    June 23, 2016 at 11:19 am #873819
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    tritecommentbot
    fukawitribe wrote:
    unconstituted wrote:
    Yeah keto is legit. Old news in running circles but judging by the responses to Kiwi then I guess cycling is a bit behind the curve.

     

    There’s a guy cycling the length of Norway, or Sweden. Forget. But he’s doing it on zero carbs. Maybe even finished now. Think he lost around 14 kilos last I heard.

     

    Couldn’t find a link on Google, heard about it from GCN.

    T’was Sweden and he has indeed finished. Lost 14kg, having put on 17kg of fat before the event. As GCN mentioned, he’ll need to go on a diet after all that … 😉

     

    Pretty amazing stuff. Neet to get more info on how he tackled it. Got some spare kilos myself..

     

    Maybe lipo would be faster though  cheeky

    June 23, 2016 at 10:30 am #873817
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    fukawitribe
    unconstituted wrote:
    Yeah keto is legit. Old news in running circles but judging by the responses to Kiwi then I guess cycling is a bit behind the curve.

     

    There’s a guy cycling the length of Norway, or Sweden. Forget. But he’s doing it on zero carbs. Maybe even finished now. Think he lost around 14 kilos last I heard.

     

    Couldn’t find a link on Google, heard about it from GCN.

    T’was Sweden and he has indeed finished. Lost 14kg, having put on 17kg of fat before the event. As GCN mentioned, he’ll need to go on a diet after all that … 😉

    June 23, 2016 at 9:56 am #873815
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    tritecommentbot

    Yeah keto is legit. Old news

    Yeah keto is legit. Old news in running circles but judging by the responses to Kiwi then I guess cycling is a bit behind the curve.

     

    There’s a guy cycling the length of Norway, or Sweden. Forget. But he’s doing it on zero carbs. Maybe even finished now. Think he lost around 14 kilos last I heard.

     

    Couldn’t find a link on Google, heard about it from GCN.

    June 23, 2016 at 9:36 am #873813
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    madcarew

    Like Kiwimike says, you can

    Like Kiwimike says, you can go without any  food if you’re adapted and used to it. You can adapt without the super low carb / high fat diet, just increase the length of your rides without food over about 6 weeks. I’ve just come back from a metric century with 1000m of climbing in under 3 hrs after work with no food taken. I do race Centuries (150 – 160km) in about 4 hrs, I don’t recommend doing that on no food regardless of how well keto adapted you are. Personally for a race day century like that I eat a bowl of porridge or eggs on toast a couple of hours before hand, take a couple of bananas and an energy bar on the ride, and a couple of gels. For drink I’ll normally take 2 bottles, one with part strength energy drink in it, and the other with just water. High caffeine gels do seem to give a bit of a boost when you’re fading a bit, but I also like the type that I get. I’m likely to come back with some of that still on board. 

    June 23, 2016 at 8:33 am #873811
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    le Bidon

    My phone always comes with me

    My phone always comes with me. I don’t use a Garmin for navigation – actually, I don’t use a Garmin much full stop, so my phone’s there for Strava. Also, snaps and it holds my debit card/money.

    In terms of food, it’s usually cereal bars or similar. Gels come out to play if I’m pushing for the 5 hour mark or it’s particularly hilly. There’s almost always a cake stop factored in too. Never carry a saddle bag either, everything goes in my back pockets even if I’m doing 150+ miles. I hate saddle bags.

    June 22, 2016 at 11:09 pm #873809
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    fenix
    Simon E wrote:
    wycombewheeler wrote:
    Never go without a phone.

    Why?

    I’ve never carried a mobile phone and haven’t died yet…

     

    hopefully a phone isn’t the difference between life or death – but mine can pay for coffee. Take snaps. Google for a hard to find cafe. Ring the mate I’m meant to hook up with. Check the map to see where I am. Check the weather forecast. Ring for rescue if something breaks.   I could leave it sit home but why would I ?

     

    entirely up to you. We did get by without before they were introduced but it’s all positives and I can’t see any negatives. 

    June 22, 2016 at 9:32 pm #873807
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    KiwiMike
    700c wrote:
    KiwiMike wrote:
    ‘nothing’ – becasue I’ve Keto-adapted to burn through the ~40,000 calories of fat onboard instead of the measly ~2000 calories of glycogen smiley

    Not completely sure if serious, (is this even possible?) but interesting! How did you manage it?

     

    It’s not ‘easy’: it takes 2-4 weeks of following a super low-carb diet – like under 50g net carbs per day and a LOT of fat. Like 70%+. Lost 3kg though.

    Read this:  “The Art and Science Of Low Carbohydrate Performance” by Volek & Phinney – the Go-To bible for Keto Cycling

    Use MyFitnessPal app to track what you’re eating.

    Drink LOTS of water

    Get extra sodium – like a teaspoon of Boullion twice a day

    Consider Magnesium / Potassium suppliments

    This article: http://cyclingtips.com/2013/09/high-fat-low-carb-diets-the-effects-and-how-to-try-one/ shows this graph: yes, fat can power you as the majority source all the way up to 100% VO2Max.

     

    June 22, 2016 at 8:33 pm #873805
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    mattydubster

    Dried mango.  And dried mango

    Dried mango.  And dried mango.

     

    Any fruit bars and a couple of those watery gels as a very last resort.  Then grab what I can from the food stops.

    I did that 300 miler Newcastle to London 24hr thing last year, I didn’t carry much at all in my pockets as the food at the stops was bl***y amazeballs!

    June 22, 2016 at 7:37 pm #873803
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    drosco

    I took a leaf out of Team Sky
    I took a leaf out of Team Sky’s book after reading what Ben Swift eats on a ride. Normal food, fruit, cakes etc. mixed with gels. Nothing but gels for the last hour if I recall correctly. I’ve tried it on a few rides and it works really well.

    Cannot stomach nothing but gels and bars for a century ride.

    June 22, 2016 at 7:03 pm #873801
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    Simon E

    wycombewheeler wrote:

    wycombewheeler wrote:
    Never go without a phone.

    Why?

    I’ve never carried a mobile phone and haven’t died yet…

    June 22, 2016 at 9:41 am #873799
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    TypeVertigo

    I’ve never really tried gels

    I’ve never really tried gels or sports drinks; they tend to make me thirsty, which is a feeling I dislike. Same goes for chocolate bars.

    So far the following regimen has worked for me:

    • Breakfast cereal pre-ride, with or without coffee
    • While riding, one bite of granola bar every 45 minutes
    • With each bite, wash down with water

    I finished a 200 km audax this way, never really feeling hungry.

    I’d probably reserve the chocolate as a post-ride “recovery” treat since I’m not so concerned about thirst in my mouth by then.

    June 22, 2016 at 7:29 am #873797
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    LarryDavidJr

    Porridge an hour before you

    • Porridge an hour before you go out, with a good strong coffee.
    • 1 bottle energy drink, one plain water, backup packet of energy drink powder, maybe a ‘salts’ tablet as well.
    • A solid food snack (Bannana, honey and peanut butter in a toasted sandwich is a good combo)
    • One or two gels (one of which is caffeine) ‘just in case’.  Usually use one of these if I’ve eaten about an hour or so ago and there’s still at least an hour to go.
    June 21, 2016 at 10:25 pm #873795
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    barbarus

    For me what I eat before a
    For me what I eat before a ride matters too. Ideally I need to eat something with some fat (eggs are good) at least an hour and a half before riding. If I eat less than an hour before a hard ride I go into the red quickly whatever I eat en route.

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