My First Bonk !!

[Halfmanhalfbike]

Now the warmer weather seems to have arrived I decided to test the legs with a run from Blackness to Cairnpapple in West Lothian - 610m of ascent in 16km. For those that may know the area I went via the Kingscavil "wall" and Beecraigs.

Thoiught I was fuelled up enough with porridge for breakfast and a sponge biccy at the start.......I was wrong!

Everything went fine until after beecraigs hill. Started to feel really weak but decided to press on. Drank some lucozade sport and felt not too bad.

Once I was going up the final drag to cairnpapple though......Total breakdown. No energy, feeling sick,shivery,faint. The whole shebang.

Had to sit down where I was otherwise I would have fallen over. I didn't panic though, cause I knew what this was. It wasn't a heart attack it was the Bonk!

Took small nibbles of malt loaf with some lucozade and within 15 mins felt totally OK. Just shows how important taking on food is even on a short ride if you're using up a lot of energy climbing

 

[BilboSmeggins]

Hey!! You lured me to this thread under false pretenses

 

[Garz]

Hey!! You lured me to this thread under false pretenses

Haha

 

[sleekitcollie]

hi , u must be local to me , im in winchburgh ., Kingscavil can do that anytime , i has very simmilar last year and had to stop half way up food and inhaler both out , felt better after a wee rest .
i,ve not plucked up the currage to do Kingscavil yet this year .. yet but should really make the effort .

 

[numbnuts]

I had mine in front of a log fire, it was a long, long time ago

 

[Halfmanhalfbike]

hi , u must be local to me , im in winchburgh ., Kingscavil can do that anytime , i has very simmilar last year and had to stop half way up food and inhaler both out , felt better after a wee rest .
i,ve not plucked up the currage to do Kingscavil yet this year .. yet but should really make the effort .

I'm in Kirkliston. I know what you mean about Kingscavil. All the way there I was trying to think of reasons not to do it

 

[Headgardener]

I had mine in front of a log fire, it was a long, long time ago

Hope you didn't get a singed bum then Numbnuts.

 

[2Loose]

or worse, not numb nuts!

 

[jimboalee]

You can put the biggest fuel tank you like in a motorcar, and fill it with avgas, ethanol or nitromethane, BUT, if the pipe from the fueltank to the engine's fuel pump is the size of a hypodermic needle, with every will in the world, that engine is not going to run at its expected potential.

In the human body, the fuel lines are the circulatory system's arteries and capillaries.
Asking for an engine output beyond the capacity of the fuel transportation system has nothing to do with how much and what grade fuel is in the tank.

On a racecar, just replace the 1.5mm pipe with a 25mm pipe.
For a human body, spend months performing cardiovascular and Lactate Threshold training to increase the size and quantity of the fuel lines.

 

[sleekitcollie]

70 miles on Sunday ( struggled last 20 miles ) and quick(ish) 15 miles including kingscaval hill (very slowish) yesterday . That's 1st time tv
this year for K/C hill .