when to stop

[Fab Foodie]

Most excellent tour!
Lots of coast and Co Wiclow is lovely! No need to rush.

 

[jimboalee]

Oh, YES!

Make sure you climb Wicklow Gap, and then stop and take a good look at the view over Dublin.
:?:

 

[BigonaBianchi]

just stop when you are tired...ride when you feel ok.

 

[ASC1951]

And having a couple of pints at stops magically summons hills in the distance.

I find just the opposite. Alcohol mid-ride just steals my legs, especially beer. IME you're better with tea, hot chocolate etc.

 

[jimboalee]

I have suggested that it is not advisable to get hunger before stopping. The body system's modes change.

If you start feeling tired and ride through it, you will shoot yourself with adrenaline, and as a result lose a considerable amount of sleep later.

Don't stop when you feel tired, stop when you START feeling tired.

Multistage Pro riders get a massage, practice relaxation techniques and get to bed at about 9 o'clock after a meal that encourages drowsiness.
( High carb and a beer ).

An amatuer who does not regularly ride multiday events will suffer from insomnia if they push themselves.

After your Wicklow climb, get off and relax, enjoy the view and cool down.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I find just the opposite. Alcohol mid-ride just steals my legs, especially beer. IME you're better with tea, hot chocolate etc.

Agreed.
Also regarding stopping on a hill top and admiring the view, it's a good thing to do, but in opposition to anothers advice, don't cool down, especially at this time of year, important when you stop to keep warm.

When you've finished riding get something like a milk-shake/chocolate milk down your neck. Milk has been shown to be one of the best recovery and rehydrating products post ride (not always the most digestible during rides). The sooner you can do this the better for your muscles. The Tryptophan in the milk will also aid relaxation. Get a good sized meal on board, plenty of carbs as suggested, but not exclusively so. Again, hot milk drink will also aid a more relaxed sleep and recovery.

 

[jimboalee]

Fab Foodie.

I see you are a man of much knowledge.

I take these

www.healthspan.co.uk/sleep-mood/happy-days-5-htp-tablets/ProductDetail-p211-c114.aspx

A buddy in California told me about 5-HTP. When I got back to the UK, I almost swooned at the price. But fortunately, these people are on Jersey and they are a good price.

 

[jimboalee]

That's the Channel Island of Jersey, not the State next to NY.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Fab Foodie.

I see you are a man of much knowledge.

I take these

www.healthspan.co.uk/sleep-mood/happy-days-5-htp-tablets/ProductDetail-p211-c114.aspx

A buddy in California told me about 5-HTP. When I got back to the UK, I almost swooned at the price. But fortunately, these people are on Jersey and they are a good price.

Cows milk is magical stuff, I can't remember all the good stuff in it, but there is plenty, fats that aid fat metabolism, proteins that lower blood pressure, proteins that promote growth, a solute make-up that promotes rapid uptake from the gut... ain't mother nature great?
Bananas are a good source of Tryptophan also IIRC. Go to bed on a pint of milk and a banana and you could probably save a few bob in shipments from Jersey... maybe just buy Jersey milk!

 

[Noodley]

Cows milk is magical stuff...

Not as magical as pies.

 

[jimboalee]

Whose pies?

We have Fluer de Lys, which are bloody pricey,

or Pukka Pukeup pies.

 

[Crackle]

He's talking bridies I bet

 

[jimboalee]

About milk.

There is a school of thought who argue :-

The human being is a 'hunter-gatherer' by evolution. Farming and the domestication of livestock has been happening for less than 1% of Homo sapien's evolutionary past.
Human physiology is not adapted to drinking the lactate of other species.
I can understand this, but....

I drink about 1 pint every day. Mostly in coffee, and halfa heated before bed with a tot of Jim Beam.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I understand that view, but on the whole the Human seems to be able to handle bovine milk reasonably well. OK, there are Lactose intolerant peoples and other allergics( as well as wheat intolerant and nuts and shellfish etc), and there are also large populations whose milk consumption is a very high percentage of their total food intake.
That's how it is, I don't know the why's.

 

[Dave5N]

All in the genes, innit.

Lactose tolerance was evolutionarily advantageous as humans settled into farming lifestyles. Markedly more apparent in Northern peoples.

Prof. Dawkins will fill you in on the details: my job is to paint a mighty sweep across the canvas.