I started an experiment a couple weeks ago based on an actual lab experiment – sugar water vs ubiquitous sports drink. I’ve been taking in anywhere from 75-100g/hr of liquid carbs and the effects are astounding. I know, “Duh!”, but going from thinking I was fueling with enough carbs to actually fuel…

@trpnhntr is clocking in ~15kJ/min. Doable if you have the time and carbs. I’m at 10kJ/min over the last 2 weeks (9.5hr/wk). 2xVO2max/SS/Thresh each + 10hr Z2. :+1: (When I was doing ~18hr/wk Z2 I was @ 7.5kJ/min…just to give you an idea how much work TRP is doing!)

Experiment #:man_shrugging: Have a ~1,500 kJ Threshold workout tomorrow. Going to load one bottle with 50g sugar, salt, and lemon juice tonight. Hopefully by the time I drink it during the workout, the sucrose will have broken into glucose and fructose. Want to see if there is any perceived differe…

In the range of about 10K kJ per week myself. I expect that might have to go up now I feel I am ftp bump coming #gulp

Here’s my zone breakdown for the last few weeks for context. During weeks 14 and 15 below I did 2 threshold workouts, 1 sweet spot, and 3 endurance. I added between 30-60 minutes of endurance to the end of every workout [image] [image] [image] This week isn’t quite finished - in an hour or so I …

[image] trpnhntr: This week isn’t quite finished - in an hour or so I will be doing this It got hot this week and that means allergies are kicking my ass and I wake up “allergy sick” - best case I’ll get an easy two hours in this afternoon. That makes this week a non-starter for the beginning…

I wrote this on the other malto thread. Would be interested in some ideas… [image] Maltodextrin or Glucose for fueling? Nutrition Puzzling for me are the isotonic dilution rates. I understand Maltodextrin requires 3.3ml/g and Fructose 26ml/g in order to be isotonic. If t…

[image] Captain_Doughnutman: g you’ve topped up glycogen levels. I think this’ll be key you have to eat well the day before, consuming enough healthy low GI carbs to feed and repair your muscles otherwise you’ll run at a loss and in that is a slippery slope. The Grand tour riders in Europe ar…

Hi everyone! I have tried commercial products (e.g., Maurten, GUs, …), honey, maple syrup, and sugar water… I think they work really well to decrease RPE and fuel the workput/race. However I really don’t like to have very processed food, or very simple sugars in excess or on a daily basis (the othe…

You’re effectively looking for a list of Glycaemic Index values … e.g. like this tool: http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php ( GI is based on a reference value of 100 for glucose, and measures rise in blood glucose 2 hours after eating)

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I wrote this on the other malto thread. Would be interested in some ideas…

Any thoughts?

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