Welcome to the daily workout thread for the new year and decade. This continues the idea from the original thread .

Thanks. Not on purpose for the most part.

[image] Maxy: What does your hydration look like for an effort like that? First hot ride and I took 3 bottles (24 ounces) [image]

Had a little extra time so decided to go for a recovery run. [image]

Any electrolytes in there? How about food? I struggle with hot days.

timeline: ate lunch around 1:30 or 2pm snack around 4pm left at 5:20pm with 3 bottles, 2 with water and 1 with Precision Hydration 1500. No food. ate dinner within 30 minutes of finishing the ride I’ve used Nuun, Gatorade, Hammer Extreme Enduralytes, and now Precision Hydration. They all work abo…

[image] Easy 90 miles target zone2 / aerobic endurance. [image] [image]

No food, wow, man I’m trying to get there but my body craves carbs been doing a lot of zone 2 to try and adapt better to fat burning

Fwiw I only use tailwind for “food” in my rides. My 2 hr today I only used 4 scoops or 400 calories during my ride in 1 bottle. Other bottle was water only. No food before besides breakfast at 8am which is around 600 calories. Ride was at noon.

I did 5+ hours / 3000+ calorie burn today and used Gu Roctane in one bottle, and two water only bottles. One refill about a third into the ride. Probably should have done a second water stop but wasn’t completely necessary and would have required bonus miles. Ate a banana and 4 Nature Valley Oats ‘…

I’m gonna guess you’re pretty highly trained.

What workout did you do today? (2020, part 1)

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bbarrera May 9, 2020, 11:18pm 3868

Easy 90 miles target zone2 / aerobic endurance.

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