Thinking of making the most of the last few remaining weekendsof british summer time and doing the South Downs Way but wondering what food to take??
Thinking of sandwhiches, potato salad in a tub, maybe some pasta as well.
What do other folk take?
What do people eat on those 24hr endurance rides?
i think i'd lose the will to live if i only ate energy bars...
What you eat & dring the day before is more important.
For a long day out last week on Long Mynd I made tuna mayo sandwiches and the most wonderful flapjack with porridge oats, coconut, dates, sultanas, cadburys dairy milk & bournville bits, syrup and sugar.
Oh, and fruit pastilles.
Sweets, malt loaf, pasta if you can stomach it, bananas, crisps. Stuff that you can digest easily & quickly, and that gives you a quick hit of energy. Any time you are near a shop / tearoom, buy something, gives you variety (although I think there are only a couple of points on the SDW where this is true). Take stuff that is calory dense. It's only one day of riding, so you don't need to be perfect about all your vitamins and minerals and stuff. Personally on a ride like that I'd make sure my sandwiches were something a bit boring (cheese & pickle, peanut butter & jam or something) and I'd rather have cheap white bread over nice wholemeal.
The best way to do 100 miles in a day is without too many long stops - eat small amounts of food often (and a massive load of fish and chips or similar at the end). Especially with the limited amount of light at the moment - if you don't want to finish in pitch darkness, you're going to have to skip the midday pub stop.
Joe
Peanut butter, jam and bannana sarnies... 🙂
Oh and I always take a big bag of emergency skittles / starburst or similar- if you find you run out of energy completely, you can always limp the last few miles eating one skittle a minute, every minute. You will feel dirty doing it, but it keeps exhaustion at bay for as long as you need it to.
Joe
My list consists of:
- Cobs
- Jelly babies
- Jelly
- Flap Jacks
Protein dense foods post-ride, especially just before you go to bed. I find protein shakes work well for rebuilding what you've destroyed during the day.
just haribo tangy mix.
lots of it.
every time you feel the sugar rush dropping, get another hit.
be prepared to have to take the following week off work to recover from the massive crash 😀