Energy

food = energy

must eat enough...

problem with riding alot is doubly a pain. You can't use basal metabolic rate of an average person to judge how much you need because your basal metabolic rate is way higher when you are active. Esp 2x a day. Riding once a day seems way different than riding 2x a day for 50 minutes each. Can't just go based on the kJ=kCal equivalent.

Must eat food. Lately i've been crashing at about 7:30-8pm energy meter goes to about zero and i could almost fall asleep if it wasn't for being attacked with a playful cuddly kid.

Food. Bonk. Bonk is bad. Bonk is when ya can't even turn the pedals over to generate 100 watts. Ride along normally and try riding at 100 watts (powerless people can guess, but the numbers as you see them a wicked amazing). Then bonk, not a mild i'm hungry and distracted bonk, a full on hard core zero reserves loopy headed bonk. 100 watts is almost impossible to generate in any gear.

Recovering from a bonk that hard core takes a day or two. That hurts. That sucks and should always be avoided at all costs. How do you avoid the bonk? Drink SHIFT! Or some other highly calorie drink that tastes "oh so good" faster delivery than eating a damn bar.

And... as Colin has recently re-realized, trying to eat a chocolate Gu/PowerGel/Clifshot flat out is HARD when ya red lined and all that, the thick gooey chocolaty goodness that goes down easy before a race is impossible during...

Fuel is fuel. Fuel is important. Fuel is what i'm doing now. eat french toast while sorting through schedules, writing this, setting up tours, and checking on the how the day will shift out...

Oh and CTodd is an animal alright... a nice svelte 3 toed sloth

respect... eat well and wear a smile...
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