What is the best food to eat whilst riding?

[durianrider]

People always ask me how I can bang out big watts per kg at the end of a 200k ride. This is what I eat on those rides..

DATES!!

 

[al_pacino]

I tend to pause for a bacon sandwich if I can

 

[eagleofditchling]

chips - always worked for alf tupper in tough of the track!

 

[Parrot23]

Mince and tatties always works for me. Mooooooooooooo!

(But seriously dates are a great idea, esp. the comment about the fructose/glucose balance, given that both use different absorption pathways, or something like that). Definitely will try.

If they are high in antioxidants that might be okay during cycling (I don't know), but definitely not afterwards because antioxidants blunt normal muscle adaptation to stress. Less net adaptation if you use antioxidants after exercise.

Devastated that bananas are out of the picture.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Maccas. Or KFC if I want to do a PB.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

If they are high in antioxidants that might be okay during cycling (I don't know), but definitely not afterwards because antioxidants blunt normal muscle adaptation to stress. Less net adaptation if you use antioxidants after exercise.

Hopefully avoiding the OT police on this, but are you aware of the window size for antioxidant avoidance post-exercise?

ie if you finish exercising at 11am, are you ok having some Vit C or similar at 8pm that night?

 

[hiero2]

Hopefully avoiding the OT police on this, but are you aware of the window size for antioxidant avoidance post-exercise?

ie if you finish exercising at 11am, are you ok having some Vit C or similar at 8pm that night?

What IS the window (sic, of opportunity) size, post-exercise? Or at least, that portion of the window where the antioxidants have the apparent anti-recovery impact.

I think this whole anti-oxidant inhibiting recovery sounds like a red herring dead end path sort of thinking. The whole system (our body) is way too complicated to point out one tiny thing and expect it to be unrelated to many other tiny things.

 

[durianrider]

I like it when people try and crack a joke about eating meat being healthy but you can tell they know full well it leads to heavier legs the next day due to excess blood lipemia.

 

[Elliote]

Sweet potatoes for me as they are rich source of high energy complex carb for steady riding fuel. Sweet potatoes boost blood flow and may protect your muscles against riding related damage.

 

[simo1733]

You can't beat a Mars Bar after 200k

 

[durianrider]

I used to eat mars bars but all the fat in em adds up after a while. I like to eat a LOT of food vs have to calorie restrict and just have a 300 calorie meal in a mars bar.