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I've found first thing coffee on an empty stomach to play havoc of my stomach, sometimes forcing me to dumoulin mid session. Personally I've found an energy drink (Maltodextrin with fructose 4:1, as suggested by @skinny either in this thread or the nutrition one) to be pretty good at waking me up and keeping me alive until breakfast.
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Did 15 miles this morning, first 10 at about 60-70% then the last 5 at 85-95% so around 55tss. No fuel, just black coffee and took a banana in case. It felt totally fine, just had a protein shake and some toast when I got in. Definitely cleared my head for the day and being out on the roads alone apart from some sleepy hares and the odd runner was a good start to the day. I suspect it'll be even mor enjoyable when it's not raining.
I'm just not sure whether it'd be of more benefit to do properly fuelled sweet spot hours instead.
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Coffee, then shit, before you leave. Simples.
dglshrn
hippy
Thinking of doing some pre-work rides for the next month as evenings are family/uni time and my ride time has dropped massively since starting my dissertation a few weeks ago. What's the best thing to be doing? I reckon I can fit in an hour from 6-7, home, shower then work for 8ish. I'd thought about just having a black coffee and going steady for 25mins around zone 2, eating a banana or something as I'm riding that then 15-20 mins of sweet spot/threshold coming home.
I've been topping up TSS with threshold/sweet spot <1hour rides in the evening over the past couple of weeks but it's difficult to fit life around that when you factor in getting changed, showering etc. I'm not sure if I can manage a 0.95 ride straight after waking up so thought more regular steady-hard work would be effective, and maybe even get my body fat down a bit.
I'm not training for anything in particular, but have developed a relatively decent VO2Max and threshold over the past few months and don't want to lose it/get fat before August, when I have a month off to ride as much as I want.