Supplements or Cheaper solutions to push harder

[jarsson]

I CARBS! (and so should you!)

personally for longer outside rides I like having a water bottle and a fuel bottle (lately its been Gu Roctane) and some real food in jersey pocket. On these longer adventure rides I put Roctane powder in small zip loc bags, two bottles worth will fill a small bag. It also makes the “water refills from a fountain at park” more palatable. Drink mostly water for the first hour, unless I start going hard from the start. That has worked well for me over the last 4 years but we eat a lot of fruit and…

Frustrated with figuring out fueling

Thank you. I read it, everything seems normal outside of bike riding nutrition. I don’t have any kind of symptoms mentioned here.

Fueling Workouts

C / c = kcal? or C / c = carbs? I’m assuming you’re using C & c interchangeably to mean kcal right? If so, then 800kcal ride probably means you should be eating somewhere between 200-350g of carbs over the course of the day, depending on goals, activity level, etc. Regardless, answer depends on duration of workout. If you burn 800kcal over the course of a 2-hr ride, you’d be better off having a higher percentage of your day’s carbs intra-workout, than if you were to burn 800kcal in under a…

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