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If you are anywhere near east side Birmingham, Big John's Takeaway do a 20" deep pan pizza for £11.99.
Eat a quarter two days prior, one quarter the next day and the other two quarters can go in your musette. That's 4000 calories ( two days ) taken care of.
Eat a quarter two days prior, one quarter the next day and the other two quarters can go in your musette. That's 4000 calories ( two days ) taken care of.
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Riding up Ireland 200 miles in three days requires more than a 'normal healthy diet'.
It is better to over-cook fairly heavily when in strange lands with few or no shops, hills and cold weather.
My advice here is to cram it in. But don't, I repeat DON'T have a curry on Thursday night.
Google "GI", Glyceamic Index. Carbo load on stuff from around half way up.
Eat HIGH GI stuff during the ride, an hour before the big climbs.
It is better to over-cook fairly heavily when in strange lands with few or no shops, hills and cold weather.
My advice here is to cram it in. But don't, I repeat DON'T have a curry on Thursday night.
Google "GI", Glyceamic Index. Carbo load on stuff from around half way up.
Eat HIGH GI stuff during the ride, an hour before the big climbs.
Fab Foodie
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ASC1951 said:
Best advice offered, take it!
Talking about carbs, one of my cars has a Carter Thermoquad 850 cuft/min 4 barrel.
The seven litre engine peaked at 330 hp on the dyno.
or 325 pferdestärke DIN
Only a 'mild' production camshaft.
Shades... If you want to collapse in a heap half way through the Wicklow Mountains, eat a 'Normal healthy diet'.
The seven litre engine peaked at 330 hp on the dyno.
or 325 pferdestärke DIN
Only a 'mild' production camshaft.
Shades... If you want to collapse in a heap half way through the Wicklow Mountains, eat a 'Normal healthy diet'.
Fab Foodie
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Jimbo
Shades is going on a 3 day 70mile per day ride. If he eats well and normally in the days before the tour he'll have a pretty full tank of glycogen anyway. Riding at touring rates you'll burn a higer amount of fat in his fuel mix than a stage racer will, so his carb store will stretch much farther. We already know that he's got enough info about fuelling en-route and will keep nibbling. There's no need to do anything else. I'm sure at the end of each day he'll have a health appetite and Irish food portions are not known for being "lite".
If only people really understood the stuff they thought they did...
Shades is going on a 3 day 70mile per day ride. If he eats well and normally in the days before the tour he'll have a pretty full tank of glycogen anyway. Riding at touring rates you'll burn a higer amount of fat in his fuel mix than a stage racer will, so his carb store will stretch much farther. We already know that he's got enough info about fuelling en-route and will keep nibbling. There's no need to do anything else. I'm sure at the end of each day he'll have a health appetite and Irish food portions are not known for being "lite".
If only people really understood the stuff they thought they did...
www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=wicklow&day=4
Have you taken into consideration.....
Have you taken into consideration.....
I've banged in some numbers to represent Shades, and he will spend 8 1/2 hours getting from Rosslare to Wicklow. Saturday??
With the ambient temp at 3 deg C and the wind in the NW at 24 mph, against his NNE direction of travel, Shades will require almost 4000 kCals AND his BMR of 1750.
If he can keep 12 mph on the road, he'll be doing well. The forecast says Gusts up to 30 mph for Wexford before midday. That's over twice his riding speed.
I had said once "The first ten miles are the worst", but I will correct this to be "The first seventy miles are the worst".
With the ambient temp at 3 deg C and the wind in the NW at 24 mph, against his NNE direction of travel, Shades will require almost 4000 kCals AND his BMR of 1750.
If he can keep 12 mph on the road, he'll be doing well. The forecast says Gusts up to 30 mph for Wexford before midday. That's over twice his riding speed.
I had said once "The first ten miles are the worst", but I will correct this to be "The first seventy miles are the worst".
Fab Foodie
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jimboalee said:I've banged in some numbers to represent Shades, and he will spend 8 1/2 hours getting from Rosslare to Wicklow. Saturday??
With the ambient temp at 3 deg C and the wind in the NW at 24 mph, against his NNE direction of travel, Shades will require almost 4000 kCals AND his BMR of 1750.
If he can keep 12 mph on the road, he'll be doing well. The forecast says Gusts up to 30 mph for Wexford before midday. That's over twice his riding speed.
I had said once "The first ten miles are the worst", but I will correct this to be "The first seventy miles are the worst".
You'd better calculate the wind-chill jimbo... he might need to keep his energy drink in a Thermos!
