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Little and often. You can eat doughnuts (although they're too high in fat to be a decent fuel) but you should eat them, say half at a time, over the course of an hour or two. It does depend a bit on how hard you're riding, how much you're eating vs. hunger, etc. but that's what you experiment with on longer rides.
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@skinny my low gear will be 36x34 and my stomach is of biblical proportions so hopefully I'll be fine. Thank you for the advice. Hope to do a 600 in march-ish.
@hippy cheers. Yeah I did Greenwich Mean Climb last month and I developed some knee pain which has been niggling so need to alter set up for that. Also made me realise how deadly stopping is. TiTS and all that. I have a habit of overfuelling and getting sluggish cause I'm so terrified of bonking. Maybe I need to just eat bananas instead of donuts. Wanna work on the long rides too. And yeah, basically ride a bit more, and then ride a bit more again I guess.
@Greenbank Wow that's loads of great info! Thank you! Yeah I did my first audax last month and really enjoyed it, friendly faces and other people who like riding long distance being around was nice, unfortunately I work shifts and every sunday so am not free for most audaxes. May try to make a few more next year. I like watching numbers go up somewhat arbitrarily (I guess I'm from a generation steeped in the gameification of things) so am tempted by the AAA awards and stuff.