It’s NUTS! Granted I think the hardest part that was mentioned was taking in carbs when you’re really pushing. Pretty much makes it liquid and isotonic gels as the only options.
Train those guts people.
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Please don’t put spoilers in the title of your post 
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He got it two days ago. Not sure how much time is enough for people to catch up?
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I’ve completely stopped posting about racing. I felt like every time I mentioned anything last year someone would get upset. It just wasn’t worth the aggravation.
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How about a summary of the video?
Joe
Lots of carbs before the ride. During the ride 140g per hour, mix of liquid and gels.
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LOLLLLL that was 2 days ago my guy
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Thank you Sir! Why is this even a headline in this day and age?
Joe
While not as crazy as some other numbers you see, 140g/hr is generally a fair amount more than most 65kg athletes. That’s a number you might see more typically at someone 10-15kg heavier.
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If it was the same day sure but after that I would not expect to stay spoiler free on any cycling focused forum.
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Tim Podlogar is doing some research (isotope tracers in carbs to find exhogenous carb utilization) and he is saying unnofically that gut training doesn’t make a difference in absorption just tolerance but this is off the record. Im a hesitant to beleive that gut training doesn’t work but its there is a possibility it doesn’t work.
I think gut training IS tolerance. I don’t see a difference in the two.
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That’s where I’m unclear: If I’m consuming 100g an hour, what is my absorption? I suppose your ratio of glucose/fructose must matter. I also assume some folks may be genetically gifted like many things, to absorb higher rates.
I also wonder if the absorption rate changes during the effort of say 5 hours - if your muscle glycogen depletes, does your exogenous carbs absorption increase? If this is true that the absorption increases over the ride, then it might make sense to slowly up your carb intake over the ride.
To find how much exogenous carbs you are absorbing and therefore able to use you need to put a tracer (in this case a glucose and fructose carbon isotope) and monitor how much of those isotopes are you exhaling in the co2 you breath out. I would imagine there is also ways to do this with imaging of the traced carbs in the stomach vs intenstine like Maurten has done in some of their research. This is extremely expensive and complex so good luck haha.
I’m tired of people thinking they can live on a spoiler free internet. Stuff that happened in the past is history. If people don’t want to read history (which they call spoilers) they shouldn’t inhabit the internet nor social media.
To me a spoiler would be “Darth Vader is Luke’s father”. 
Healy wearing yellow for a day or two is not really a spoiler IMO.
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I agree and the solution is simply not to go on certain sites until you’ve seen the race. That’s quite a healthy thing to do regardless.
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Glucose and fructose go thru different pathways to be absorbed and you want to maximize each pathway thats why 1:0.8 glucose:fructose is popular with the newest best products (honestly just do whatever maurten does they have the best research and development)
yeah genetics effect all things including carb absorbtion but I would imagine its trainable.
Absorbtion rate is hindered by high intensity, dehydration, and heat stress because there is less blood that can go to the stomach/intestine but glycogen depletion shouldnt effect absorbtion. When glycogen is low (it never fully depletes) your body conserves carbs which makes you burn more fat.
But isn‘t the fat burning limited (on the slow side)? (and also personal and trainable?)
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Yeah when I’m trying to avoid spoilers on sporting events, I don’t wait for two days (for one thing) and I stay off the internet and avoid TVs. Can’t expect everyone to be in on your personal schedule for wanting to discuss things.
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Fat burning requires more oxygen and time per mole of ATP produced (ATP=energy) and yes it is trainable.
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