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Tropical Wholefood Organic Mango Bar. Is there Aspartame in Go?

You could just as easily stick a Snickers in your pocket (or are you just glad to see me?) for your rides.

Actually not chocolate, too much fat. Something cakey. WTF are those bar things called?

Funny bugger.. you know the things.. we don't have them in Oz but you fuckers go bonkers for them.. argh!

Like a granola bar but softer. Sometimes yoghurt covered or with jam in the middle. FFS.. come on brain!

What is this magical, mystical bar your talking about? It sounds good!

Flapjack

Winner!

I'll buy some of that SIS go electrolyte stuff then for next weekend, won't need it tomorrow as It's only a short one.

On the carb front are you ok to just take a banana or something? How about long rides, just eat bananas and keep up with the electrolyte stuff or should I be thinking about something more substantial?

Edit - fig rolls and flap jacks sound good!

Trial and error and depends on pace, conditions, fitness, etc.

Just go out with some food next time and eat something at the half-way point.

Tropical Wholefood Organic Mango Bar. Is there Aspartame in Go?

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What is this magical, mystical bar your talking about? It sounds good!

Flapjacks!

But anything that's easy to carry, you can eat comfortably and is more carbs than fat/protein is a winner.

Thanks.

With the electroylte stuff, do you drink it in both bottles constantly? Or drink it when you start of feel slugish? Surely It's too late at that point?

You always eat or drink so its never too late.

It depends. Some rides I will only drink water. Some rides I will drink stupidly strong concentrations of Go. I can get away with very little for quite a while but since fueling for 24hrs became an issue I've had to force myself to eat and drink a lot more. For now, if I were you I'd just make sure I had a banana and flapjack and maybe test some of the energy drink options. If you buy the smaller packs initially you can see if you actually like them. Some people hate Go. Some people hate High5. It's quite personal. And as fussball says, you should be eating and drinking before you need it.

I find once you've done it a few times you'll start to notice the exact feeling of 'hunger' that means you ought to eat something, like after you eat something (e.g. banana/flapjack) you'll feel nicely filled up, then you'll gradually start to notice your stomach emptying out. Turns out with me I need to eat a way lot more than I thought, which I still haven't got the hang of doing. Also as I'm not that experienced once I start to get some actual 'leg-tiredness' it becomes harder for me to notice the lack-of-food tiredness

I did a 5k 'ride' this morning on skis.
It was fucking fun. And an hour of jibbing and fucking about in wollaton

Wollaton Park is great, my family live only a mile away, so its been a regular feature for snow days. King George's park off Town Street in Bramcote is great for snow too, really steep long hill there.

^^ Nice picture Henry.

You could just as easily stick a Snickers in your pocket (or are you just glad to see me?) for your rides.

Mars bars are even better. For me a Mars Bar half way though a 40 mile ride is about right.

Sweet pic eyebrows.

Fox: I wouldn't generally recommend chocolate bars, it was just the first item of food that popped into my head. Chocolate can be great for a pick-me-up when touring but if you're moving a bit quicker, they're usually biased too much towards fat and protein so you don't get your carb fix quick enough.

Raced a bunch of ladies on Sufferfest for 60 mins then was taken to Mallorca on VR for 37km around Puerto Pollenca - 2hr 45min of sweat.

Riding mates put went off road taking CX bikes into the snow. I didn't fancy that so cycled 60 icy road miles in order to lose feeling in my extremities, eat pizza, drink beer and see folk musicians on a boat.

Snow is meant to be back again this weekend. I might finally invest in the sufferfest videos.

After a couple of weeks without any significant pedalling, I finally cracked and went for a few gentle rounds of everyone's favourite cemetery.

Jolly nice to be out on a bike, obviously; though I was slightly cheesed by decreased fitness, and slightly cheesed for caring at all about decreased fitness.

The tiny trip's main outcome was my acceptance that this poorly Knee prolly warrants a preliminary trip to the quacks.

2.5 hours at @25kph is getting towards the point where you're running out of have run out of fuel. Especially in the cold weather when your body is probably trying hard to keep warm as well as move you forward. Have a snack on your or try some Go in your bottles.

Further to this Hippy I went and brought some Zero tablets for salt.

As for carbs I'm thinking of taking a bananna or fig rolls, these will be fine won't they?

My only reason for not picking flap jacks would be they have a lot of sugar in don't they?

Just planning ahead for this weekends ride, should there not be any snow;

http://connect.garmin.com/course/599289

Hmm, maybe my metabolism is not like others but for >55 miles I'd be taking 2 bananas and a Sainsbury's 3-pack of flapjacks (only £1! Filled with preservatives tho - seriously you can leave them in a cupboard for months, they will not die), rather than "a banana or fig rolls". Two whole packets of fig rolls might just see you right. I don't know, I guess people have to figure out their own bodies and get to notice the signs. But if you start feeling like you did the previous ride then it'll be for the same reason..

I don't generally eat anything for 50 miles, usually only get through one bottle as well- but then I'm doing Z2 training long and slow at the moment, when going a bit quicker I do start getting through the food and drink.

In other news- I popped out for a pint of milk earlier:
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Hmm, maybe my metabolism is not like others but for >55 miles I'd be taking 2 bananas and a Sainsbury's 3-pack of flapjacks (only £1! Filled with preservatives tho - seriously you can leave them in a cupboard for months, they will not die), rather than "a banana or fig rolls". Two whole packets of fig rolls might just see you right. I don't know, I guess people have to figure out their own bodies and get to notice the signs. But if you start feeling like you did the previous ride then it'll be for the same reason..

Yeh, it does all depend on the individual. When I'm heading out for a pretty hilly 60 miles I'll just take two bottles of water (or one water one high five zero) and an 'emergency' banana which I tend not to eat. However, I am normally pretty devestated by the end so should probably actually eat en route....

Hmm, maybe my metabolism is not like others but for >55 miles I'd be taking 2 bananas and a Sainsbury's 3-pack of flapjacks (only £1! Filled with preservatives tho - seriously you can leave them in a cupboard for months, they will not die), rather than "a banana or fig rolls". Two whole packets of fig rolls might just see you right. I don't know, I guess people have to figure out their own bodies and get to notice the signs. But if you start feeling like you did the previous ride then it'll be for the same reason..

Thanks for this. Always good to understand, I just thought in my head that I was eating too much.

Fox: I wouldn't generally recommend chocolate bars, it was just the first item of food that popped into my head. Chocolate can be great for a pick-me-up when touring but if you're moving a bit quicker, they're usually biased too much towards fat and protein so you don't get your carb fix quick enough.

My diet is hardly the diet of champions. On my last ride I ate a mars bar, a pork pie, two sausage rolls and an apple, then two bath cakes from Dunn's in Crouch End when I got home.

The bath cakes were awesome though.

pork pie contains the most calorific punch per volume of all foods.fact.
if you can keep it down goodonya